Just plain funny

100 days of negativity

It's not news to me that Fox News doesn't like Obama, but the video below really shocked me. Media Matters collected 100 days of Fox News reporting on Obama, and it's not exactly what one could call "Fair and Balanced"

The first time I saw Keith Olberman a few years ago, he was raging about something Bush had done (I can't remember what). Olberman was bold and eloquent, and not only did he confirm what I felt about the issue, he gave me a whole bunch of other stuff to be mad about. When I first saw Olberman, I thought he was great. But I quickly realized that he raged about EVERYTHING Bush and the Republicans did - he is the left's equivalent of Rush Limbaugh; loud, obnoxious, and very biased.

Olberman basically spent 8 years trying to convince everyone that Bush was an evil fascist who wanted to destroy American Democracy, and now Fox News is trying convince people the same about Obama. I'm sure people who watch Fox news would say the other networks have a liberal bias, and that just may be true. But I think the clip below is extreme. With some of the stuff they say, it's no wonder you've got crazy nuts out there comparing Obama to Hitler (well no, actually I still don't understand that one).

Anyway, I think I'm sticking to the internets as my primary source of news.

The non-kosher flu

Looks like some people are really upset about this Swine Flu thing.

I'll bet the Hindus were just beside themselves during the Mad Cow Disease scare.

Thinking I'd like to start blogging again

I'll start slow and easy, with a link to truly fascinating images of North Korea

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/peering_into_north_korea.html


And I wonder how is it that boston.com has so many of these amazing photo-series.

It's been a while

I can't really say why I haven't posted in a while, it isn't for a lack of exciting things happening in my life. I guess once the cancer was gone, and Obama was elected, I no longer had a sense of urgency. As I think about it, I realize I have mostly used this blog as a kind of cathartic tool - I was worried about the cancer, and after that, I was worried about the election, and writing about these things helped.

But, when we got the big exciting news in November, the news that Mathilde was pregnant, a lot of people couldn't understand that I didn't post it here immediately. I think by now, most of you know Mathilde is pregnant - for those of you who don't, well, Mathilde is pregnant :-) The baby is due June 6th.

In a post many months ago, I explained how at the end of last summer (2007) we decided we wanted to have a third baby. We tried for a short time, but soon discovered that instead of Mathilde being pregnant, I had cancer. We knew at that point, that with the effects of chemo, we'd probably never have another baby. We didn't completely give up hope. In fact, before I started chemo, I made an embarrassing and somewhat pathetic visit to a "fertility clinic" (Incidentally, I am still wondering what kind of jerk steals the magazines from the box of magazines at a fertility clinic, leaving nothing but a crumpled picture of fat guy sunbathing in g-string).

Despite the little bit of me frozen away in a cup somewhere, we resigned ourselves to the knowledge that we probably wouldn't have another child. For Emily and Anna, this was the most devastating part of my illness. They thought it was simply UNFAIR.

Anyway, it turns out that life isn't so unfair after all. When this sumer turned to fall, we had begun to the put the the cancer behind us, and started to look forward. We decided to try again for a child, aware that probably nothing would become of it. Well, to make a short story shorter, we essentially had the golfing equivalent of a hole-in-one - which surprised the hell out of us! And thrilled us to know end. I think telling the girls was the most fun of all.

For some reason, I didn't really want to write about it here at first. In the beginning, I was actually pretty nervous. I was nervous in the beginning of the last two pregnancies too, but I think the fact that I just came off 6 months of cancer treatment escalated my fears. We have been to two scannings now, though, and the baby is doing great so my fears have been put to rest, and all I have left is excitement.

We were at the second scanning yesterday, and it was SO much fun. Emily and Anna came along to see their new sibling and to hopefully find out if it is a boy our a girl. They weren't disappointed.

Below is a video of the scanning. If you move your mouse away after pushing play, the video controls will disappear so you can see the subtitles.


Baby makes five from Kevin on Vimeo.