Archive for October, 2005
Monday, October 31st, 2005
A couple of quick Halloween thoughts:We had a grand total of two groups of trick-or-treaters this year. Both were strangers -- except that Oz recognized at least one kid from each group from school (not his class). Of course, he knows everybody's name and what class they're in, ...
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Sunday, October 30th, 2005
Finally fixed that stupid bug where comments were showing as anonymous even if a name was entered. What a freakin' pain. But it's fixed now. And added the "Recent Posts" thing to the left-hand menu while I was at it.
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Sunday, October 30th, 2005
In response to the NYTimes' Nicholas Kristof's call for Cheney's resignation, the usually very worthwhile For the Record rightly ups the ante, and argues (correctly) that we should send Cheney and Bush to the Hague to be tried as the war criminals they are.
Go read it yourself; but here's a ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
George Takei, better known as Enterprise Helmsman Mr. Sulu, just recently came out. It was pretty much known (like anybody who ever saw him handling his sword in "The Naked Time" couldn't see that he was a steaming hunk of man-love), but he wasn't out.
As a bit ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
I guess it's not surprising that in the Bush era of utter obliteration of the rights of the accused, we get a complete violation of due process and double jeopardy that nobody in power actually opposes.
Case in point: Our butthead Governor George Pataki (who has some delusion that he's ...
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
The usually good Media Matters for America has a nice piece pointing out that Fux News is starting to ramp up its "Stop the War on Christmas" campaign again this year: Fox renews war to save Christmas from the "loony left" and ACLU. A couple of excerpts:
On the ...
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
Just trying out some new comment-spam-killing stuff here. Hopefully, no effect on anybody but the comment-spam scumbags.
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
According to (right-leaning) Gallup, the "Favorable vs. Unfavorable impression" split on the 'Publican party has gone from 56/39 in February of this year, to 40/50 now. During the same period, the Dems have gone from 46/47 to 52/36. See the numbers here.
It's not like the Dems have been ...
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
I just wanted to quote this simple sentence from MSNBC's "DeLay booked on conspiracy charges":
Rep. Tom DeLay turned himself Thursday in at the Harris County sheriff’s bonding office, where he was photographed, fingerprinted and released on bond on state conspiracy and money laundering charges.
Man, that felt good.
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
So, FlapArt sells "wacky" book cover that look like dust jackets of "real crazy" books. Cute, I guess.
But I noticed today's featured cover, and it reminded me of one of my all-time favorite science news items: Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it (blogged here before as ...
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