Archive for November, 2004
Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
Well, now I'm kind of fascinated. I've crept up to being the #29 link for "spooge" on Google -- a process started by my "Bush Spooge" entry, and then the "I make the spooge top 50" post. If I keep talking about it, how high will I go ...
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Monday, November 29th, 2004
Some decent news: Conservatives had taken the Massachusetts same-sex marriage ruling to the Supremes to overturn it, and they've turned down the request. Although they turned it down without comment (as is their way), the speculation is that it's grounded in a lack of standing on the part of ...
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Monday, November 29th, 2004
The Religious Rite has started another project to convert God-fearing priggishness into pseudo-science. At a recent hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee's Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee, a parade of anti-porn "scientists" were paraded through, converting tight assed religiously-inspired prudishness into full-blown creation sci--- er, psychology. As Wired's Internet ...
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Thursday, November 25th, 2004
I've said this elsewhere, and before, but I suppose it doesn't hurt to say it again: Although lots of people take Turkey Day as the opportunity to give literal thanks to their own flavor of imaginary friend, the heart of the idea of thankfulness for the good things in ...
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004
This is just a test of the new picture setup works. I finally got around to setting up flickr to handle posting of pics online. I've viewed stuff on flickr for a while, but decided to take a half-hour this afternoon and set it up for posting and integrating ...
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004
From MemeStreams ("Slog"); sung to the tune of "99 Bottles of Beer":
20,000 insurgents in Iraq,20,000 hardened insurgents,take 1,000 down,move to another town,22,000 insurgents in Iraq.
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004
House 'Publicans instituted a "no House leaders who are under indictment" rule in 1993 as bit of grandstanding to show up scandal-plagued House Dems. But now that it looks like that asshole Tom DeLay is about to get indicted back in Texas, they've reconsidered and dropped the rule. ...
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Thursday, November 18th, 2004
Rolling Stone has published its list of the "Top 500 rock songs". I've just seen the top 50 so far. Caters to old farts like me; so in my view, it's not totally horrible. But there are some oddities. I love the Bobster, but there ain't no ...
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2004
Google News gets lots of international sources, which is good. These sources include some english-language sources from China; and occasionally, the english is entertainingly bad. My favorite recently: In talking about New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's (The Next Governor of the Empire State) taking on payola ...
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Sunday, November 14th, 2004
So, I'm entry #41 in Google for "spooge", for my little post "Bush Spooge". I am somewhere between pleased and creeped out by that.
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