Jonathan's blog

Here are some TV picks for this week from The Week magazine:

• Secret Files of the Inquisition, Wednesdays May 9 and 16, 9 PM, PBS
• Innocent, Thursday May 10, 8 PM, BBC America
• Traveler, Thursday May 10, 10 PM, ABC

Also, here's an article from TV Barn about Traveler: link.

We spent our last day in Orlando (last Sunday) at the Animal Kingdom. Lisa and Finn's favorite was the Festival of the Lion King. Elliot's favorite was probably the Kali River Rapids. We tried to ride the Expedition Everest roller coaster, but it kept shutting down. After Sunday spent at the Animal Kingdom, we flew back to Michigan on Monday. Here are some photos from the Animal Kingdom. The last photo is one we took at Epcot.

My Steelers created some controversy among their fans when they traded their 4th- and 6th-round picks to move up in the 4th round to draft a punter. They hadn't drafted a punter that high in a long, long time. One the other hand, you've gotta love a punter that makes tackles like this one:

We spent last Saturday at Epcot. We met Alma, Vlad, and Anthony there. We know Alma from when we were back in Knoxville and our small group sponsored her family when they came to the US as refugees. Elliot really enjoyed the Test Track ride. We had dinner in the Mexican section of Epcot (that's the blurry photo below with a volcano in the background).. Here is a video of some drummers from the Japanese area and some pictures.

Check out the video below from Colbert. In it, Dana Rohrabacher (Republican, California) says it's OK to mistakenly abduct and torture 10 innocent people in order to get 90 bad guys off the street. Unbelievable. Extraordinary rendition, indeed.