sentences

First, select your favorite Bible verse from Bible Gateway. I choose the following selection from Psalmes in the NIV:

Psalm 40:3
He put a new song in my mouth, 
a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord.

Eugene Volokh, of the eponymous Volokh Conspiracy - an excellent, slightly-right-of-center law blog - points out an interesting aspect of last week’s conviction in the O.J. Simpson kidnapping/robbery trial. Now that O.J.

"I wanna hand Daddy the cans!!!!” Gresham, age five, screamed yesterday.  (Though, to be fair to the kid, it’s hard to tell when he’s screaming and when he’s just talking.  He’s got a voice amplification issue of some sort.)

I only know of a couple of British bloggers, and one of them is the Vol Abroad, so I'd have to defer to her on the state of British bloggers. And British media vs. US media.

I rarely discuss politics here but I have to say that I was taken aback by McCain’s choice for VP.  Not sure what I think about that yet, but right now I’m just surprised.  Not what I was expecting at all. 

Fine, yes, I’ll stick it below the fold for all you babies.

Sorry babies with an RSS reader.  You’d better just hope your eyes don’t skip too far down before you finish reading these sentences that tell you we’re about to deal with <quietvoice>girly stuff</quietvoice>.

I hope for Barack Obama’s sake it’s real. I hope for John McCain’s sake it isn’t. John McCain’s daughter Meghan is blogging from the campaign trail. And by “blogging” I mean there is blogging software installed on a domain, and she can occasionally compose a compound sentence.

On Monday I wrote what Russia's Georgia gambit has done. It was a short post and so here is the whole thing except the first two sentences.

Russia can move its forces on the ground faster than diplomats can move themselves to conferences.

The California Commission on the Death Penalty released its report on June 30, 2008, and I think it is important for Tennesseans, whose legislature is also examining the death penalty with the Tennessee Committee to Study the Administration of the Death Penalty, to reflect on what the California report found. Here are some excerpts:

Delays

My mind is racing all the time or it has slowed to a tired crawl. I miss turns when driving. I forget things. I leave myself voice mails if it's really important because being really important isn't enough to make me remember to do it. I have lists for Work, Home, and Errands. The lists are never shorter than the day before.