On this 100th anniversary of Mother’s Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world’s most celebrated holidays probably wouldn’t be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.

Anna Jarvis would want us to give mothers a white carnation — she felt it signified the purity of a mother’s love.

Guess this means I should take back the camera I got my mom? ;)

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Here’s a wonderful set of photos taken for a BBC special. They hid remote controlled cameras in logs and then had elephants carry and place them (the mind boggles). They ended up with some wonderful shots! While you are there, check out the video clips too!

This is what it sounds like in my house while I’m playing Wii tennis…especially on long points:

<sound of music blaring with my iPod set on random>
<various hits without me making any sounds except maybe singing along with said music>
oof
oooOOf!
OOOOF!
Bah!
Bah!
BAH!
BAH!!!!!!
BAH!!!!!!
SHIT!
<sigh>

I now have greater sympathy for real tennis players who grunt/yell while they play.

This post on Talking Points Memo sums up a lot of the reasons why I switched my support from Clinton to Obama. I truly feel you can tell a lot about how someone will run the White House by how they run their campaign.

If somehow against all odds she got nominated, I’d vote for her, but I’d do so utterly unconvinced that the quality of her leadership wouldn’t bring about disastrous results no less than the disastrous results that McCain’s wrongheaded policies and own cravenness would bring about. Yes, her policy positions would be much better than McCain’s. But if she’s this divisive, this self-preserving, this craven, I think the results can still be horrible, even with policy positions that are much closer to mine.