Somehow, this seems connected

I went looking to see which Senators and Representatives had had the decency (or courage?) to vote against torture and arbitrary imprisonment yesterday. I wound up at a Washington post page sorted by party, which told me that Lincoln Chaffee is the only honorable Republican in the U.S. Senate. The others, including McCain, voted in favor.

Then I saw that I can also get the totals sorted by state, region, "boomer status," gender, next election year, or astrological sign.

And I wonder that I expect sanity from a country in which people who actually pay attention to politics are expected to think that's a useful or interesting sort. But I'm not just wanting, and mourning the lack of, sanity: I want ordinary human decency.

Somehow, this seems connected

I went looking to see which Senators and Representatives had had the decency (or courage?) to vote against torture and arbitrary imprisonment yesterday. I wound up at a Washington post page sorted by party, which told me that Lincoln Chaffee is the only honorable Republican in the U.S. Senate. The others, including McCain, voted in favor.

Then I saw that I can also get the totals sorted by state, region, "boomer status," gender, next election year, or astrological sign.

And I wonder that I expect sanity from a country in which people who actually pay attention to politics are expected to think that's a useful or interesting sort. But I'm not just wanting, and mourning the lack of, sanity: I want ordinary human decency.

I'm not left-handed

I was looking at GIMP tutorials, and this one seemed suitably simple. (The writer clearly isn't a native English speaker, but that's okay.)

And I was having trouble drawing a stick figure. Unlike the characters in The Princess Bride, I'm not even close to ambidextrous: I can do ordinary computer stuff with the mouse set for left-handed (point and click, move a scroll bar up and down, even type on one of those stupid virtual keyboards that banks think provide security). Drawing a circle, or any smooth curve, is another matter.

So, my options seem to be: give up on computer graphics, or go back to working right-handed. If I do the latter, I should probably set things up so I can switch back and forth, and only work right-handed when I need the fine motor control, lest I re-injure my rotator cuff.

Or I can go play with wire, or read my book.

I'm not left-handed

I was looking at GIMP tutorials, and this one seemed suitably simple. (The writer clearly isn't a native English speaker, but that's okay.)

And I was having trouble drawing a stick figure. Unlike the characters in The Princess Bride, I'm not even close to ambidextrous: I can do ordinary computer stuff with the mouse set for left-handed (point and click, move a scroll bar up and down, even type on one of those stupid virtual keyboards that banks think provide security). Drawing a circle, or any smooth curve, is another matter.

So, my options seem to be: give up on computer graphics, or go back to working right-handed. If I do the latter, I should probably set things up so I can switch back and forth, and only work right-handed when I need the fine motor control, lest I re-injure my rotator cuff.

Or I can go play with wire, or read my book.