The weather looks nice out today, but you never know. This might be a nice time for a mini-vacation brought today by twitter. Every so often, the constant flow of information gets to feeling weird. As any time, it's hard to explain. Many very serious, troubling things are happening. The missing Malaysian plane, for example, has been missing for over a week. But with so much going on, tumultuous crises, wars, impending wars and disasters of all kinds and bad news and times of lots of change, where technology and even governments buckle under the weight, it somehow seems right that many will just blank out and be silly. It's what works, if you can get a chance to laugh.
- Sen Mitch McConnell of KY made an ad with no speaking, just music. So the comedy geniuses @TheDailyShow with Jon Stewart made a bit about how easy it is to put a song to it. It seems any song does the trick. My favorite was uploaded to you tube. They called it McConnelling Everybody Knows, using the Leonard Cohen song. It's perfect!
- A San Francisco radio station 105.7 last night played a single twelve year old song over and over for five or six hours ... and it seems a lot of people heard about it. Play it three or four times and you get the idea. Makes people itch like a springtime thing. #Nelly1057
- In 2009 Kansas state legislature passed a Net Metering law that limits who can and how much a resident might collect solar power - you know, from the sun, to use instead of the local dominant electricity supplier. Residents aren't allowed to exceed 25kw unless you apply to the electricity supplier. My local example is linked here. On the face of it, what they say looks to be great, if you can make sense of the paperwork and requirements.
- A brief look at what the CIA did this time: Senator Dianne Feinstein, Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, someone who never tells agency they screwed up, comes right out and says it.
- Texas Senator John Cornyn tweeted this:
and digby tweeted this almost at the same time:
and this NY Congressman reminds us that national tax day is a month away and we can get free help from the government.
- Tomorrow a vote is expected to be held in Crimea to decide how it will return to Russian Federation. This photo was snapped this morning of Ukraine's interim PM flying back from a few days in Washington :
- POTUS Barack Obama agreed to be asked inane questions by an imbecile acting like a pompous tv person, for several minutes.
- Seeking words of wisdom (?) from Lady Gaga at SXSW in Austin, TX this week. The night before she came out on a roasting spit, like she was the pig being roasted for barbecue.
- Houses in Portofino, Italy ... it would be fun to see floorplans of these places. But with a quick google search you can realize they are very skinny houses built on a cliff. This is a town probably much like the one young Felice della Rovere was sent to, just on the other side of Genoa on the Ligurian coast.
- And a not so random bit of Domestic! Virgin Line video and song selections from Feb2006 Tokyo Jihen performances as the day drifts away.
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