tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53116202011-12-14T21:38:43.823-05:00<b>-4.75,-6.46 on The Political Compass</b>Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.comBlogger13411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1152419624405951922006-07-09T00:25:00.000-04:002006-07-09T00:33:44.490-04:00

Our family supports local farmers as much as we can. We're members of a local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm, and we buy all our meat and milk from local farmers who graze them on grass and don't use routine antibiotics and hormones. It's healthy, and the food is really just plain better. My charming wife bought the reserve champion lamb at the 4-H auction at the county fair last year

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  ...or 2.0. Crucifix NG is a printed electronic circuit board in the shape of a crucifix. This handheld, wall-mountable device houses a battery-operated transmitter that broadcasts an ASCII, non-denominational version of the Lord's Prayer at 916 megahertz. So if you want your body to be imbued with an anointed electromagnetism, this is for you.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1152073544323671152006-07-05T00:24:00.000-04:002006-07-05T00:25:44.326-04:00

George Steinbrenner is 76 today. The Cleveland Indians celebrated by beating the Yankees 19-1.

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Say, where do you keep the books on dominoes?

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It's been a quiet day here. Staked our tomatoes, which we should have done a couple of weeks ago. Did some weeding. Stayed home so the dogs wouldn't freak out at the fireworks. Appreciated living in a free country. Reflected on Ben Franklin, responding to the question of what kind of government we would have, saying "A republic, if you can keep it." Happy Independence Day. Hope you are all safe

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If you have ever lived in the Northeast, you certainly remember "Crazy Eddie", the NYC retailer with the tagline "His prices are INNSAAAAANE! (if you don't, a number of his ads are available online at crazyeddie.com). Well, he's been trying to sell the domain name and trademark on eBay. Unfortunately, he didn't get very close to the "Buy it now" price of $800K or to the (unknown) reserve price,

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1151639040542627762006-06-29T21:52:00.000-04:002006-06-30T00:11:30.013-04:00

So the Supreme Court ruled against the administration in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. Looks like those of us who said that they couldn't just toss out the Geneva Conventions when they found them inconvenient were right. Just like we were about the WMD. And the yellowcake. And the "mobile biological labs". And Saddam not being involved in 9/11. But man, it seems like the entire right wing has just gone

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1151381745501897742006-06-27T00:13:00.000-04:002006-06-27T01:14:57.413-04:00

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh was detained at Palm Beach International Airport for the possible possession of illegal prescription drugs Monday evening. Limbaugh was returning on a flight from the Dominican Republic when customs officials found a Viagra prescription that did not bear his name. Instead, the bottle of pills had the names of two doctors on it according to the Palm

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So Washington state has now passed a law banning doctors from writing prescriptions in cursive. Guys, it's 2006. Why are they writing the blooming things by hand at all? I want my prescription emailed (securely) from the doctor's office to the pharmacy and waiting there for me to pick up.

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I'm sure the Benevolent Bush Administration knew exactly what it was doing when they insisted that the government not be able to negotiate prices with drug manufacturers as part of the Medicare Part D boondoggle. Right? I mean, we do have "The CEO President", right? Harvard MBA? Must know what he's doing, eh? Prices of the most widely used prescription drugs rose sharply in this year's first

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Just the thing for drying your hair before putting on your tin foil hat! Korean manufacturer UNIX Electronics (and I'd love to know the story behind that name) now has a line of "low-EMF" hair dryers. I love the warning at the bottom of the page: Effect of Electromagnetic Wave on the Human Body? It causes Leukemia, Lymph Cancer, Brain Cancer, Central Nerve Cancer, Breat Cancer, Dementia,

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Insane, incompetent, and arrogant. That's our Rumsfeld. When two investigators from the DoD's office of the Inspector General asked him to take an oath before testifying to them, he said "I find it strange". Why were they talking to him? Oh, just a little matter of nearly wasting $30 billion leasing new tanker aircraft from Boeing that the Pentagon's own experts said weren't needed. And what

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This is pretty cool. You position the watch using the handy built-in compass and then use the micro-Stonehenge to tell the time. And, just like the Druids, you can use it to tell the summer and winter solstices. $39.99 from ThinkGeek

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NEVER use a weed whacker in the nude. You know, I'd never before thought that would be a necessary bit of advice. This is really funny, though, in a good Dave Barry sort of way.

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It's the Web 2.0 way to say "I have photos of you with various farm animals.

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Knit one.

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Entertainment Weekly lists the top 10 movie car chases. I think they get it pretty right, but I'd swap #1 and #2 (though both are amazing). And I don't know how they left out Gumball Rally or The Italian Job (the original one). I'd certainly take those over Terminator or (gak) Charlie's Angels. But hey, you can't complain too much about any list that includes Death Race 2000 Now, off to Netflix.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1150772484256056882006-06-19T10:33:00.000-04:002006-06-21T02:24:53.283-04:00

Ever wonder how to tell whether that jar in the back of the fridge has become a science fair project without actually (shudder) opening it? Timestrips to the rescue! These gadgets use capillary action to draw a liquid across the scale at a known rate to provide a handy visual use-by indicator. There are professional versions of these used for tracking in commercial kitches, and Nestle is going

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Today's entry: Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA). Rep. Westmoreland went on the Colbert Report. He's co-sponsoring a bill to have the Ten Commandments posted in the House and Senate. Colbert asked him to name the Ten Commandments. He got three. That didn't keep him from putting a photo of himself and Colbert on his web site.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1150558202298995382006-06-17T10:48:00.001-04:002006-06-17T11:30:02.400-04:00

The Pentagon takes care of this Friday's Document Dump, releasing a report on "incidents" involving Iraqi prisoners and US special forces in 2003-2004. The "incidents" included feeding detainees only bread and water for 17 days, using "unapproved interrogation techniques" such as sleep deprivation and loud music, and stripping at least one prisoner. Nothing to worry about, though. These things

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Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA) somehow is able to find food, despite being a strong contender for Stupidest Man Alive. In a debate with his Democratic opponent Joe Sestak, he said this about Iraq: I think the jury is still out on WMD. And he's the vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee! And Republicans want us to trust them on national security? I'd sooner trust Wakko, Yakko, and

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I'm a diehard Red Sox fan, but I have to give props to some individual Yankees from time to time. Bernie Williams, for instance. I watched him play in AA when the Yanks' farm team was in Albany, and I've always thought he was a class act. And Jorge Posada. Posada's son has Craniosynostosis, which is a condition where the seams between the bones that make up the skull fuse prematurely. He's had

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1150241664267067732006-06-13T19:06:00.000-04:002006-06-17T17:24:44.286-04:00

Again, thanks to old buddy Steve for finding these classic Mike Jittlov stop-motion animation shorts on YouTube: The Wizard of Speed and Time, Time Tripper, and Swing Shift. They may not look like much in this age of CGI, but around 1980 they were the shiznit.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1150236383718951942006-06-12T23:20:00.000-04:002006-06-13T18:15:06.910-04:00

This is cool. The fan has two "sticks" of LEDs that you can program to display messages as the fan spins. I like it.

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How about making it blend in with the surroundings? No, really. Lots of cool street art here. So, you still don't believe me?

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1150076774025214412006-06-11T19:15:00.000-04:002006-06-11T22:15:49.043-04:00

Especially when it's about Bill Clinton. This time it's Rush Limbaugh claiming that Clinton's approval ratings were "down in the 20s" at one point and that he had "parallel poll results" to Bush in his second term. The reality? Clinton's low was 36%, and was above 58% the entire year of 1998, which corresponds to this year in Bush's Presidency Why do they lie? Might as well ask why a fish swims,

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1149973866726323672006-06-10T17:10:00.000-04:002006-06-11T22:16:47.820-04:00

I love science geek cartoons.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1149836088066507332006-06-09T02:48:00.000-04:002006-06-09T02:54:48.133-04:00

I've put down a couple of floating laminate wood floors in our house, and they're pretty nice. But boring. This, on the other hand, is really cool. They make up and send you a floor that goes together like a jigsaw puzzle. If your room is moderately large, they'll even laser engrave an image of your choosing onto the pieces for free. At $15/square foot, though, cool doesn't come cheaply.

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The Congressional Black Caucus is standing behind Rep William Jefferson (D-LA). Look, they have him on videotape taking bribes. He's crooked as a dog's hind leg. Get him out of there. Guys, you're not helping him by doing this, you're only hurting your own credibility.

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The Congressional Black Caucus is standing behind Rep William Jefferson (D-LA). Look, they have him on videotape taking bribes. He's crooked as a dog's hind leg. Get him out of there. Guys, you're not helping him by doing this, you're only hurting your own credibility.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1149807991818911862006-06-07T00:45:00.000-04:002006-06-08T19:06:31.943-04:00

And make no mistake. Getting him out of the way is a good thing. He was a really nasty character, and while I'd rather see him on trial than on a slab, either is preferable to continuing to run his terror operation. That said, I think it's very likely that his importance to al Qaeda has been consistently exaggerated by the Bush administration and that his removal will have a much

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That's a terrific song by John Wesley Harding, and it also seems to be one of the primary stocks in trade of right wing pundits. This time, it's Tony Blankley, editorial page editor for the Washington Times talking about Haditha: The point it that this is going to be used, and is already being used by the opponents of the president, domestically and abroad, as a blood libel not just against

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Here's a bit of good news. A federal judge ruled yesterday that Charles Colson's Prison Fellowship Ministries and the state of Iowa violated the Constitution by setting up a government-funded program to rehabilitate prison inmates by immersing them in Christianity. Expect the usual howling about how they're being repressed from the evangelicals, but the facts are that the program was not only

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Really, don't they deserve it? Not all of them, I guess, but certainly the idiots at the Texas GOP convention. Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell offered a greeting to delegates to the Republican convention. "It's great to be back in the holy land," the Fort Worth native said to the cheers of the party faithful.... The party platform, adopted Saturday, declares "America is a Christian nation" and affirms

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If somebody had told you in 1998 that within ten years the US would be seriously considering dropping a significant section of the Geneva Conventions from the Army field manual, you'd probably have said they were crazy. One of the things I hate about this Administration is how often you end up sounding like a tinfoil-hat crazy just talking about what they're doing. The particular section is

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1149387834407162762006-06-03T22:22:00.000-04:002006-06-03T22:23:54.440-04:00

From the 80s to now. The SxSW festival, like last year, is making lots of music from bands performing at the festival available online. No matter what your taste, there's probably some stuff there you'll like. I'm just starting to wade through it myself.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1149381568242723282006-06-03T19:02:00.000-04:002006-06-03T21:14:36.496-04:00

There seems to be a sudden surge in interest in cultural artifacts (how's that for putting it diplomatically) from the 80s. I find this both extremely entertaining and horrifying. Starting with the downright weird: a good friend of mine from college found this, and gave it to a mutual friend who posted it. Found at YouTube. The Dog Police were contestants in one of the MTV Basement Tapes

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The Sad Tale of the Farmer's Wife, by Annabouboula (Greek Fire) Kopykat, by Primm (SxSW 2005 Showcase) 135, by Two Cow Garage (SxSW 2005 Showcase) Take the Long Way, by Po Girl (SxSW 2005 Showcase) Dealin' With the Deal, by The Swiftys (SxSW 2005 Showcase) Gina, by Tribal Nation (SxSW 2005 Showcase) Day-O Tripper, by Really Interesting Audio Adventures (Sounds for the Sun-Set) Genius of Love, by

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It's clearly something in the collective unconscious. Why else would there be so many pulp magazine covers featuring octopuses (or octopoid aliens)?

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I'd just like to say, for the record, that I really don't care what George Bush, Hillary Clinton, or anybody else has on their iPod. Unless it's some cool music I haven't heard yet.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1148963102300569412006-05-30T00:19:00.000-04:002006-05-30T00:25:21.693-04:00

Yes, another Sandberg reference. I have no doubt that he'd be classified a dangerous radical if he were alive and writing now, especially after seeing what seems to be passing for "maintstream" opinion, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal editorial page. Did this week mark the first return steps to bipartisan sanity in the war on terror? The Senate Intelligence Committee approved Gen. Michael

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George Bush, on Wednesday, came out with the following remarkable statement: The enemy cannot defeat us on the battlefield, but what they can do is put horrible images on our TV screens. Now, think for a moment. Does al Qaeda put the images on our TV screens? Does the Taliban? Saddam Hussein? Not the last time I checked. No, it's very clear. The free press is the enemy, according to George W.

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I have never served in the military, but I am not unfamiliar with it. My father and several uncles all served, including one of my uncles who was a career Army NCO and served tours in Korea and Vietnam and two others who were Army in Nam as well. Fortunately, they all came home. Many others didn't. Let us honor their sacrifice not by pursuing policies that will create more graves to decorate, but

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I grew up in the South — North Carolina, to be precise — where we used to talk about "yellow dog Democrats" which, if you've never heard the term, was someone so loyal that he'd vote for a yellow dog if it was on the Democratic line. Well, here are two guys who are beyond even that. One big raspberry for the Alabama Democratic party for letting these guys slip in. Alabama's Democratic Party is

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No, not Bush. A study from the University of Leicester indicates that [P]eople who have suffered life's hard knocks while growing up tend to be more gullible than those who have been more sheltered, startling new findings from the University of Leicester reveal. A six-month study in the University's School of Psychology found that rather than toughening up individuals, adverse experiences in

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(With apologies to Martin Niemoller) First they came for the due process rights of people accused of being terorrists, and Congress said nothing. Then they came for the privacy rights of Americans to not have their telephone calls analyzed, and Congress said nothing. Then they came for the right of Congress to make the laws (with "signing statements"), and Congress said nothing. Then they came

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Most of what's on my laptop right now is from the SxSW 2005 showcase, which was 3.5GB of tunes from the 2005 SxSW festival released as a promotion... Shut It Down, The Stepbrothers (SxSW) Lord Byron's Luggage, Warren Zevon (My Ride's Here) Too Drunk, Paul the Girl (SxSW) Lousy Smarch Weather, Your Black Star (SxSW) You Are Everything, The Stylistics (Best of the Stylistics) Little Bit,

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1148616353766893572006-05-26T00:02:00.000-04:002006-05-26T00:05:53.816-04:00

I admit it. I drink so much Diet Coke I should probably qualify as a lab rat. I tried New Coke. I tried Coke Zero. I tried C2. I even tried Coke Blak. And I'd try Coke Hot Tamale. Heck, it sounds better than Coke Blak. Fresca Pomegranate, though, is just too weird.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1148615205630513782006-05-24T23:53:00.000-04:002006-05-25T23:46:45.866-04:00

Check out this classic 80s tune from one of the more durable 80s bands, Depeche Mode. Not amazing as videos go, but you'll be trying to get the song out of your head for a week.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1148508719264456242006-05-24T17:36:00.000-04:002006-05-24T18:17:54.903-04:00

For those ideas that just can't be expressed any other way, it's Custom printed toilet paper. I was a bit disappointed that their samples didn't include this one, though.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Michael Novak of National Review, displaying a view of the world completely undamaged by any contact with reality: ...What I do want to argue is that, after Washington and Lincoln, Bush is the bravest of our presidents. He has faced the most intense fire, hatred, contempt, heavily moneyed and bitterly acidic partisan opposition, underhandedness, betrayal, of any

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Secretary of state Condi Rice appeared on Meet the Press this morning, and made a truly remarkable statement: that there's no one who would like to close the camp at Guantanamo Bay than the Bush Administration. Which leads to the abundantly obvious question: What's stopping them? Seriously, do they have to ask someone's permission? Whose? Can't "Decider" Bush just "decide" to do it and order that

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1148183625831584542006-05-20T23:48:00.000-04:002006-05-20T23:53:45.843-04:00

Finally. Barry Bonds ties the Babe. A lot of people are incensed about this, and about Bonds in general, and I have to confess that I don't quite understand why. Yes, he almost certainly used steroids. But he's never tested positive for them. And we know for certain that Jason Giambi used them, and he's hearing nothing but cheers in the Bronx. Bit of a double standard? Sure seems that way to me.

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There's a debate going on in the Department of Defense. It's about whether suspected terrorists or other insurgents can be treated more severely than captured members of an enemy army. Got that? If you're picked up as a POW actively fighting against the US military, you get all the benefits of the Geneva Conventions. If, however, you're turned in as an alleged "terrorist" or "insurgent" by

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The Senate Judiciary Committee reported out the Federal Marriage Amendment to be voted on by the full Senate today. And there were a couple of odd things about it. First, they moved the hearings on it from the normal committee room to a small private room. Second, Senator Specter illustrated once again that he is in a non-custodial relationship with his testicles by saying that he was "totally

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Rick Santorum is back in the news, this time accusing people of prowling around his house in Penn Hills. Of course, the only reason he thinks somebody has been prowling around there is that the local Democratic group is pointing out that there are no curtains in the house, and there doesn't appear to be any furniture. Seems kind of strange for a guy who claims to represent Pennsylvania, now,

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I recently ran across a big list of links to music videos from the 80s, mostly on YouTube. You know, the 80s. When MTV actually played music videos. The Look of Love was ABC's big hit. ABC was Martin Fry, some random people, and Trevor Horn's production. The video is a wonderful sort of "glam-rock-meets-surrealism" style with a lot of odd things going on around the edges. I really went for this

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He's lost it. Gone round the bend. Cracked up. Bats in his belfry. Yes, I'm talking about the man who's trying to retire the "Worst Person in the World" award, the pugnacious Bill. O. Reilly. (as they say on his radio intro). Pointing out that O'Reilly said something particularly insane may have the unfortunate side effect of leading people to believe that he periodically says things that are

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There was a firefight in the town of Haditha last November. As often happens in war, there were multiple stories of what went on. According to the Marines, one Marine and several civilians were killed by an IED, then several insurgents were killed in the ensuing firefight. According to the Iraqis, "U.S. Marines deliberately killed 15 unarmed Iraqi civilians, including seven women and three

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I recently ran across this extremely cool site of an Alaskan artist named Ray Troll. It's sort of "eco-surrealism", if I had to call it something. He's also got some cool Alaska-themed stuff. And my personal favorite, titled One Small Step for a Fish, One Giant Leap for Fishkind. He's got lots of cool t-shirts for sale as well, though my favorite images from the gallery are not available on

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I can't top Josh Marshall's description of this morning's press conference about Bush's new "immigration policy": Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and a clutch of top officials gave a press briefing today on President Bush's new National Guard-infused border security program. Hilarity ensues: You should go read the whole thing, but this is too good to pass up. Question from a reporter

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If, you know, it's really a "war on terror", you'd think that this item would have gotten more coverage. Four of the 'most dangerous terrorists' in Iraq escaped from Susa prison in the northern Kurdish province of Sulaymanyah, a senior US army officer said Wednesday. Colonel David Kerry said that it was not clear how the suspected terrorists fled the facility Tuesday night. He said a committee

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I can think of any number of ways in which one might find Bush comparable with Nixon, but I have to admit that I had never thought that both of them are liberals. No, it takes Jonah Goldberg to come up with stuff like this. Either that or lots of drugs.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1147746554618967702006-05-15T16:30:00.000-04:002006-05-15T22:30:14.043-04:00

These are cool. My seven year old really wants one for his room. I really like the way the switch sticks through in just the right spot to be his beak.

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Under normal circumstances, I'd put this firmly in tinfoil hat territory. The current circumstances, however, are anything but normal. A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources. "It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick," the source told us in an in-person conversation.

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How good a year is Albert Pujols having? Well, if you take his numbers so far and extrapolate them to a full season.... AB546 R167Tied for 4th with Lou Gehrig 1936 and Tip O'Neill 1887 H181 2B28 HR83Current record: 71, Barry Bonds RBI204Current record: 190, Hack Wilson BB148Tie for 14th K46 AVG.344 OBP.48144th all time SLG.8612nd all time, record: .863, Barry Bonds OPS1.3422nd all time, record:

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...is the sound of wingnut heads exploding after reading the latest CNN poll comparing President Bush with former President Clinton. On handling the economy, people preferred Clinton by 63% to 23% for Bush. On solving the problems of ordinary Americans, Clinton by 62% to 25%. On foreign affairs, Clinton by 55% to 32%. On taxes, Clinton by 51% to 35% On handling national disasters, Clinton by 51%

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1147409970996146782006-05-12T00:51:00.000-04:002006-05-12T00:59:31.046-04:00

I'm so angry about the NSA data mining news that I can't see straight. Even now, even after all the lies we've seen in the past 5 years, I couldn't imagine that Bush could stand up in public and lie through his teeth about it with a straight face. Not that I think for an instant that he understands anything about "data mining", or that he could tell it from copper mining. No, I think it's another

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1147325183098161882006-05-11T01:23:00.000-04:002006-05-11T01:26:23.110-04:00

...would be a great name for a band. Until they appear, though, go be terrified (or fascinated, if you prefer) by the 65 different versions of Stairway to Heaven the folks at WFMU dredged up. Great bit from the comments, originally from Terry Pratchett: "and then go down to the docks and hire a troll and tell him to stand in the corner and if anyone else comes in and tries to play 'Pathway to

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Yes, Katherine Harris is backstill in the news. Former senior members of U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris' congressional staff say they initially rejected a defense contractor's $10 million appropriation request last year but reversed course after being instructed by Harris to approve it. Harris insisted that Mitchell Wade's request for funding be given to a defense appropriations subcommittee,

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1147323042579671022006-05-11T00:40:00.000-04:002006-05-11T00:50:42.696-04:00

Jane Siberry is a fascinating, wonderful, Canadian musician. Now she's done something interesting with her online store: pay what you think it's worth. You can even choose to take the music and think of it as a gift from Jane. Interestingly, she seems to be getting more per track than the $.99 iTunes charges. BTW, I highly recommend Everything Reminds Me of My Dog ("Would you like a cookie? Would

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That's the only way I could describe this. HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson was speaking to the Real Estate Executive Council, a national minority real estate consortium. After discussing the huge strides the agency has made in doing business with minority-owned companies, Jackson closed with a cautionary tale, relaying a conversation he had with a prospective advertising contractor. 'He had made

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I have nothing against fishing. I don't fish as an adult, but I used to go with several of my uncles when I was growing up. Sometimes we fished the rivers or TVA lakes, and sometimes we'd go to a commercial stocked lake. But we never pretended the two were the same. You went to a stocked lake when you wanted a guaranteed score, or for a contest. It wasn't real fishing. So now we have the story of

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Flying Cow Leaves Two Police Cars in Flames. The cause-and-effect isn't quite that direct, but this sounds like one of the more entertaining police episodes not involving Jackie Gleason that I can recall.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1146960358452125352006-05-06T20:02:00.000-04:002006-05-07T00:28:45.563-04:00

...if it hadn't been for those meddling prosecutors! Prosecutors have e-mails showing Rep. Tom DeLay's office knew lobbyist Jack Abramoff had arranged the financing for the GOP leader's controversial European golfing trip in 2000 and was concerned "if someone starts asking questions." House ethics rules bar lawmakers from accepting free trips from lobbyists. DeLay, R-Texas, reported to Congress

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1146958977303566292006-05-05T09:53:00.000-04:002006-05-06T19:42:57.526-04:00

The principle used to be "you can have your own opinion, but you don't get to have your own facts". No longer, at least not if you're a Republican. For instance... After 34 years of college teaching, I thought I had heard just about every imaginable student complaint. Last week, however, a freshman in my 300-seat US History Since 1865 course came in to discuss her exam with one of the graders

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I guess this goes under "even a blind pig finds an acorn occasionally." President Bush actually strengthened an Executive Order that was in place when he took office, so that it requires all agencies and "any other entity within the executive branch" to provide an annual accounting of their classification of documents. Sounds like a good idea, right? Well, guess who says it doesn't apply to him,

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Support the troops, eh? While the Administration talks a good game, but the reality is not so good. A program to help military spouses develop employment skills is being cut by the Labor Department. But remember, we can't roll back any of the tax cuts for rich people!

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1146767469354607122006-05-04T14:28:00.000-04:002006-05-04T14:31:09.366-04:00

Support the troops, eh? While the Administration talks a good game, but the reality is not so good. A program to help military spouses develop employment skills is being cut by the Labor Department. But remember, we can't roll back any of the tax cuts for rich people!

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1146765122422804002006-05-04T13:25:00.000-04:002006-05-04T13:52:02.526-04:00

I really can't make up my mind whether this is serious or a parody. In fact, I can't even make up my mind whether I think the person is more of a nutcase if she's serious or if she's putting that much effort into a parody. I have to say, though, that if it is a parody, it's the best and most detailed one I've seen in an awfully long time.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1146712013980925672006-05-03T23:06:00.000-04:002006-05-03T23:07:31.490-04:00

I used to wear contact lenses, and it didn't take very long to get over the weird feeling of poking things into your eyes, but this is Just Too Much: Yep, that's jewelry hanging from the model's contact lens. It's apparently a concept developed by designer Eric Klarenbeek. Hat tip to Gizmodo

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1146711977906831062006-05-03T23:05:00.000-04:002006-05-03T23:08:05.380-04:00

If you didn't go read Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog the last time I said to, go now. I'll wait. The latest is Chaucer's top pickup lines. My favorite is "Woldstow haue me shyfte thyne voweles?", followed closely by "Makstow a pilgrymage heere often?" And don't miss the shirts, either.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1146685244233579012006-05-03T15:36:00.000-04:002006-05-03T15:45:28.283-04:00

Hat tip to the wonderful folks at firedoglake for analyzing the latest filings in the Libby case, and spotting this fascinating item: Mr. Libby can rebut this theory [that Administration officials engaged in a vigorous effort to discredit Wilson by outing his wife] by showing that his conversations with reporters about Mr. Wilson and his trip were necessitated by, and focused upon, the false

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Yeah, I was one of the "Boo him!" crowd when Johnny Damon returned to Fenway Park in a Yankees uniform. It wouldn't have been so bad if he'd gone anywhere else. It wouldn't have been so bad if he hadn't said that he couldn't imagine himself playing for the Yankees. And I would like to have one of the "Looks like Jesus – Acts like Judas – Throws like Mary" t-shirts. But at least I didn't have to

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1146631444912737962006-05-03T00:42:00.000-04:002006-05-03T00:45:23.020-04:00

I've spent most of my blogging time for the last couple of days cleaning up the markup for this page. It now validates as proper XHTML! I hope this will make it look better in various browsers; personally, I prefer Opera, but YMMV.

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If you think that one of the big problems at the moment is that you can't say "the Republican scandal" because, well, there are so many of them, help has arrived. Nicely done, too.

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I don't often talk about it, but I spent the first ten years of my career doing software development, mostly in languages so low-level that programmers today turn pale at the mere mention of their names. But I just ran across a terrific article by Damien Katz about handling errors in software. He makes the (very astute, IMO) observation that quite a lot of errors programs are "expected" to

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1146370068704478712006-04-29T23:41:00.000-04:002006-04-30T00:07:48.790-04:00

Did you know that if you're staying in one of the FEMA trailer parks, you can't invite a journalist in to interview you without a FEMA "minder"?

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Roger Ebert is a really interesting guy. Among other things, he wrote the screenplay for the Russ Meyer film, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens. Which I've actually seen. And I really like his movie reviews. So now he's come out with his list of movies that are "the movies you just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed discussion about movies.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1146196214422821082006-04-27T11:01:00.000-04:002006-04-27T23:50:14.536-04:00

This is kind of different. Auto insurance aimed at churchgoers. They will waive your deductible if you're involved in an accident "while you're driving directly to or from a church service or other scheduled worship or religious activity." Most of the benefits are pretty much the usual stuff, but then there's this: A memorial gift of $1,000 will be made to your church if your covered auto is

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Cheese curd, of course. And gravy, of a sort. If you've been to Montreal, you probably know I'm talking about poutine, food of the gods. OK, they're kind of chubby gods with somewhat clogged arteries. But if you, like me, plan to have your arteries ready to take up the load if you get osteoporosis when you get old, this is the food for you. Don't miss the reviews. I'm tempted to go to Montreal

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1146086766127951212006-04-26T17:23:00.000-04:002006-04-26T17:26:06.190-04:00

Subcontractors of (wait for it) KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary, have been accused of violations of human-trafficking laws and other abuses in Iraq, including illegally confiscating the passports of laborers.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1146020238528295142006-04-25T22:54:00.000-04:002006-05-03T00:04:07.183-04:00

The New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal looks like it may add to the things the current occupants of the White House have to worry about. The facts, on the surface at least, are suspicious: dozens of phone calls to the White House by a man later convicted in the case; the national Republican Party agreeing to pay more than $2.5 million in legal bills; phones jammed on Election Day, not only of

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1145997780961715982006-04-25T16:39:00.000-04:002006-05-03T00:05:28.840-04:00

Survey USA has put out another of their periodic 50-state polls. I decided to take a look at how much Bush's approval rating is below the vote totals he got in each state.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1145935168032432722006-04-24T23:18:00.000-04:002006-05-03T00:12:47.713-04:00

Latest CNN poll. When will they stop calling it "approval"?

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1145934945539854142006-04-24T23:14:00.000-04:002006-05-03T00:12:24.656-04:00

Yep, that's our Attorney General. I can't figure out what is more stupid about this: the notion that it would have any significant effect on the Internet (which, someone should remind Abu Gonzalez, is worldwide), or the notion that it's even remotely compatible with the First Amendment.

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1145930898622736412006-04-24T22:06:00.000-04:002006-05-03T00:12:03.660-04:00

The folks at gasbuddy.com have a cool map indicating gas prices by county in color kind of like a USA Today-style weather map.

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The war in Iraq is now costing more than Vietnam per month in constant dollars. The invasion's "shock and awe" of high-tech laser-guided bombs, cruise missiles and stealth aircraft has long faded, but the costs of even those early months are just coming into view as the military confronts equipment repair and rebuilding costs it has avoided and procurement costs it never expected. Huh? They "

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1145923424140605192006-04-24T19:59:00.000-04:002006-05-03T00:18:29.126-04:00

You know, I really hate to point to the folks at the NRO Corner, but this one (hat tip to Angry Bear is too good to pass up. KLo should really see someone about that MPD. First, she tags Ted Kennedy as a socialist for this: The president, the president should have called the head of the oil companies into the White House and started jawboning. He should have done that a week ago. Why he doesn't

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12506620740117742071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311620.post-1145758089605479182006-04-22T22:04:00.000-04:002006-05-03T00:06:29.953-04:00

Those clever Republicans. They want to make it a felony to sell a vibrator in South Carolina. The law would ban sale of devices used primarily for sexual stimulation and allow police to sieze sex toys from raided businesses. One can only wonder what sort of interesting new interrogation techniques the police are likely to come up with with that sort of raw materials.

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