So I said I wasn’t going to work on Georgie’s Vest until I came back from my sister’s, but I lied.
We have an armband!
The picture sucks – that’s what you get with bad light, dark colors, and a flash. (Shhhh. Don’t tell my clients. I’m supposed to be a professional. Eeek!)
So, I think the shoulders look a little boxy and the armband may be too wide out. G tried it on, and he says it’s a tad tight, but I’m thinking it will soften up/stretch out a little with a wash. It’s amazing how much softer the waistband single rib is since I blocked it. The shoulders seem to stick out a little. I might rip out a couple of rows, just to see. But I’m pleased with it. It’s starting to look like a real sweater. We’ve already decided G can wear it for Xmas at his parents (so he can tell everyone I made it!) I will not be taking it to my sister’s. Too much for the train and with the kids I’ll probably get no knitting done while I’m there.
In the who says you can’t get smaaaht reading the gossips department, I found the following item in the Rush & Molloy column over at the New York Daily News:
Bad source code at NYT?
New York Times columnist David Brooks might want to do a background check on the next “expert” he quotes.
Brooks, the reigning conservative on the paper’s op-ed page now that William Safire is leaving, is coming under fire for his recent column about Red State “natalism” and birth rates in which he quoted writer Steve Sailer’s finding that President Bush “carried the 19 states with the highest white fertility rates.”
Brooks doesn’t mention that Sailer reportedly runs a Web discussion group whose members include white supremecists and anti-Semites.
Sailer also writes for vdare.com, which the KKK-fighting Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled a “hate group.”
Brooks didn’t immediately respond to our E-mail.
But on political magazine The American Prospect’s blog TAPped, writer Garance Franke-Ruta asks, “Why is David Brooks promoting the work of a well-known eugenicist sympathizer who regularly indulges in racial stereotyping? … [It’s] journalism at its absolute shoddiest.”
Remember I told you what a stupid column this was? Vindication shall be mine!
In case you’re interested in the straight poop, here’s the link to The American Prospect‘s blog. [See the December 7th entry.]
That was a stupid column! Glad to see someone called him on it. Way to go on the armband. Sounds kind of revolutionary, doesn’t it?