Pictures Later
I'm still working on the photos I took yesterday, which need some Photoshop work. It was seriously overcast, and (add more excuses here). I snapped around 200 shots and the editing is brutal. I'm also playing around with Flickr and Exposure Manager to deal with posting pics and I haven't decided which way to go, if I go anywhere.
In the meantime I had noticed a story some days ago on Drudge about an editor at Playgirl Magazine that outed herself as a Bush voter realizing she had begun to lean right politically. I thought it was a good story and indicative of one of the reasons Bush was reelected. Now they (the brass at Playgirl) have gone fired her, with a laugh.
"Hello Drudge,"After your coverage of my article about coming out and voting Republican, I did receive many letters of support from fellow Republican voters, but it was not without repercussions. Criticism from the liberal left ensued. A few days after the onslaught of liberal backlash, I was released from my duties at Playgirl magazine.
"After underlings expressed their disinterest of working for an outed Republican editor, I have a strong suspicion that my position was no longer valued by Playgirl executives. I also received a phone call from a leading official from Playgirl magazine, in which he stated with a laugh, "I wouldn't have hired you if I knew you were a Republican.
"I just wanted to let you know of the fear the liberal left has about a woman with power possessing Republican views."
So I felt compelled to write to the editor of Playgirl the following (Editorial@playgirlmag.com):
Michele Zipp shows how both sides of the aisle may peacefully coexist by working for and embracing a liberal publication such as yours, then you go and disrespect her for simply telling the truth about her voting preferences.Hypocrite is the first word that comes to mind, followed immediately by intolerant, with words like dishonest and stupid rushing after.
Typical is the word I finish with. Congratulations, you have reinforced a stereotype of the illiberal liberal media. Open your eyes, it's a big world out there, and it's not really so scary.
One after the other our brave self-proclaimed defenders of tolerance and liberal thought out themselves as intolerant hypocrites, to which I say, "more faster, please." What dumbasses.
Oops. A big boom outside and the electric went out for about a minute. I remember blackouts when I was a kid in the sixties and early seventies, but not so much in recent years (notable exception when the entire northeast went dark a couple of years ago). Since I've been in Costa Rica there've been at least three I've noticed in my neighborhood.
