He said that with a smile; a smirk, really. By way of obvious explanation. And the revelations contained within that sentence are frightening. “I’m a war President.” Not “I’m President during a war.” “A war began, and I was the guy who happened to be here when it did.” No, he’s a war President. He’s [...]
Linux looks like it has passed the Macintosh in desktop profusion. I expect the OSS community is going to crow victory at the news. To this I would say that the news is not as good as it might be, and the community has itself to blame. Linux succeeds because of the availability of cheap [...]
As everyone not living under a rock knows, San Francisco has been issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples for five days now, with over 2500 couples from all over getting hitched. There are some people who opposed this on immoral and unehtical religious grounds, or I suppose they are so squicked by it that they [...]
I didn’t think she could sink lower than she has. I think I imagined that even she had some sense of shame, some notion of things she would not be willing to say with a straight face. But clearly, with this column, she has shown a willingness to sink to any depth necessary to generate [...]
The Bush Administration has started judging whether some shows will receive closed-captioning or not. It’s the government, so the hearing-impaired community has every right to call this “censorship” without being hyperbolic. Feh.
Well, I tried going for a french roast, but chickened out. The roast went a bit over eleven minutes, and I started to smell a little burny smell, so I just stopped it there: I only had the window slightly cracked open, and didn’t want to set off the smoke alarm at midnight. So it’s [...]
That’s right, I’m roasting my own coffee now. A week and a half ago, I ordered the large sampler pack from Sweet Maria’s, and today it finally arrived. Last weekend, I went around in search of a hot air popcorn popper, and found this guy for a buck-fiddy at the local thrift store… That’s the [...]
I was reading defective yeti and found this link to the holiday that could yet save us from ourselves.
When did liberals just roll over and hand the rhetorical reins over to the conservatives? What are these “Defense of Marriage Acts” of which folks speak? Ohio became the 38th state to pass a Promotion of Bigotry and Repression Act to get a jump on the possibility that Massachusetts might drag it kicking and screaming [...]
