It's been quite a week for me in ramping up on the world-wide web.  I got my first comment from a genuine "stranger" after linking to Annie Frisbie's article on Donnie Darko.  Annie kindly linked back to me from her blog and I'm interested to read more of her book reviews.  I've already bought one book based on her recommendation.  We'll see if we agree.

I spent last night researching various topics and websites.  I learned about rss feeds and how they help people follow blogs.  I joined Linked In (see button, below right).  I may actually be inching up on the 21st Century!  (Slow and steady is the pace.)

And yes, I'm married to Mr. Technology, so it is shocking that I'm not more up on these things.  But it's classic right brain...I only get interested in widgets when I see how they can lead to far off places.  Then I get juiced enough to stay up all night figuring out why my Linked In button sends everyone to Weebly's Dan Veltri.  (Got a nice note back from Dan telling me how to fix that!  Veltri, not Morefield.)

Speaking of wild, wild...two political items that I am unable to resist addressing.

1.  The shoe-tapping Senator.  Who knew (well, lots of folks I guess, but not me) that tapping your shoe in a men's room is an invitation to casual sex?  Not only that, but it's (apparently) illegal. 

I'm still not sure why it's illegal.  The closest anyone's come to explaining it to me is that it's illegal because it's solicitation for sex.  Okay, sez I, but doesn't that happen in bars all over America (gay and straight) every night?  Maybe the illegality is that it's solicitation for sex right here, right now.  But I'm fairly sure that's not all that uncommon either.  Be that as it may, I agree with my Mom that the real issue is more in Senator Craig's attempted cover-up and denials than the misdemeanor itself.

As to his repeated denials about being gay, who knows?  Who cares?  Seriously, these days, why can't there be gay Senators on both sides of the aisle?  For an amusing take on this question, watch the video below.  The funniest part of the video is how it highlights Craig's opening comment..."Thank you all for coming out today."  Sheesh, the irony.

2.  Almost as ironic as Bush's comments over the departure of AG Gonzales.   "It is sad that we live in a time when a talented and honorable person like Alberto Gonzales is impeded from doing important work because his good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons."

Um, excuse me.  But isn't the reason Gonzales's name was "dragged through the mud" because he impeded others from doing important work by firing them "for political reasons?"  I don't know whether to laugh or cry over the idea that no one in the Bush administration saw the irony of his statement.  Was it that they didn't vet it...or that they didn't get it?