We need a little more of this sort of thing. HAT TIP Americablog.com.

A great weekend with the boys left the apartment in a mild shambles. I am pleased to report that the Bissell EasyVac above does, in fact, suck. Precisely, it sucked every dustbunny off of my living room carpet, Ah, order.... Next stop: the stains from the chocolate chips....

Unrelated to anything except my general domestic spirit, I offer this recipe for a veggie sandwich:

One green or red bell pepper
One cucumber, medium size
One large tomato
2 or 3 habanero peppers optional, size of a pinball, maybe two-thirds the diameter of a golf ball

Baltimore Sun, May 14, 2008:

The state's highest court suspended a Baltimore County judge ... for making profane and uncivil comments from the bench, issuing the harshest punishment for a Maryland judge in more than two decades and, observers said, sending a message to judges to watch their behavior.

The Court of Appeals found that District Judge Bruce S. Lamdin violated the state's judicial code of conduct. It accepted a judicial commission's recommendation that the judge be suspended for 30 days without pay.

Tell Ace of Spades just to go suffer. HAT TIP to Al Rodgers for his diary about Obama in Portland, Oregon at Daily Kos.

Otis Redding singing Sam Cooke's classic.

I like the presentation format of this YouTube but disagree with many of the quotes. Hemingway's "All thinking men are atheists" is demonstrably false and arrogant. My favorite is probably Amanda Bloom's "An idea does not gain truth as it gains followers."

I am pleased to announce that Crab Media now operates responsivedocuments.com, which will serve at the home for all Crab Media document review content, links, information and jobs listings. I must admit my continued surprise that the domain name has remained open to this date; the term "responsive documents" is central to most litigation or transactional document reviews and it is a pretty decent tradename in itself for a document review placement agency or software vendor. Now Crab Media owns it, and new content will appear there once the server in Hong Kong or Boston, whichever, processes the new domain (about 24 hours or so.)

Cooking blogger Kumama has just started her new blog Kumama's Kitchen. Kumama advises that her name comes from her grandson.

Welcome to the blogosphere, Kumama, and if you are indeed a Maryland blogger, I hope that you will consider joining the Maryland Bloggers Alliance. Alliance members, please drop by to give Kumama some good will and encouragement.

HAT TIP to Oliver Willis for this nature video, below the fold....

The past seven days of my life have been oriented around the impending family adjustments and my residential relocation to the District of Columbia. Finding an apartment has been a serious pain in the neck. Happily, problem solved.

A little snark for your snark needs.

I sit now in Chevy Chase, DC, the tony urban side of the suburban-urban trans-Western Avenue liberal sprawl that gives Brian Griffiths intermittent explosive diarrhea. I sit in the basement Politics and Prose, a minor cathedral to tony, tasteful liberal wealth and somewhat well-deserved intellectual smugness. Howard Zinn was to speak today here, but cancelled due to some family issue. But alas, good Brian, I am drinking a carbohydrate-laden plain Italian soda - a shot of flavored corn syrup, a snowball without the snow or the ball, not a latte (which are overrated and taste the way that Ari Fleischer speaks: no matter how hard you steel yourself for the disappointment, you still manage to be disappointed.)

Been in deep, deep divorce and separation mode. Wife and kids moving out in 10 days, I will follow into DC thereafter. Plus big day job duties. Sale of home 21 days away. Yeah.

Next stop: Cleveland Park (or Malcolm X Park, or Glover Park?)

My diary "Secular Content: An Atheist's Iconostasis" is up over at Street Prophets.