Maybe it’s just me but such protests reveal “we’re not protesting the soldiers, only the war” is a total farce. Someone cannot oppose shipments of armaments to our boys and still claim they wish only the best for our troops. Of couse, one only has to look at the way the Anti-war protestors and media [...]
I’ve seen some pretty disingenuous “research” from the nut job side of the environmental movement where global warming is concerned but this one on poison ivy really takes the cake. Stop global warming now or face worse poison ivy rashes!! Gads, what a sham… Another reason to worry about global warming: more and itchier poison [...]
I would comment on the President’s “apology” but Horsefeathers has done a much better job of expressing my dismay.
I guess it should be no surprise since when comparing rhetoric and voting records Democrats and Republicans have to be askign themselves what’s the difference? When progressives tell me they hope McCain gets the nod “because he’s a Republican I could vote for” I get this strange urge to lease the place next to Alec [...]
How can we even take Mehlman seriously after enough Republican Senators defect from the Party to stop the lifting of the off-shore drilling ban because it.. ahem.. might harm tourism. That’s OK, by the time we get our thumbs out of our bums
John Kerry Supports, Opposes Border Fence Sen. John Kerry joined most of his Democratic colleagues last week in voting to build a wall along 370 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border. But he now says that after the wall is built it should be taken down as soon as possible. “I voted for it,” Kerry acknowledged [...]
I’ve basically ignored the Dixie Chicks since before their gaff in 2003 but a short entry on Texas Rainmaker titled Dixie Chicks Learn the Difference Between Censorship and Capitalism is an interesting read. In the end it comes down to a paraphrased old saw of you have the right to free speech, you don’t have [...]
It has taken quite awhile but I have finally found a real use for the camera built into my Treo 700w. Whiteboards!!! (no, image quality is not that bad, I’ve blurred it to conceal content) Snapping a picture of a process flow diagram on a whiteboard with the Treo then sending it to myself regular [...]
Sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease. I’ve watched with amusement as people go from complaining that they’re getting spam to complaining their friends forwarding chain letters are getting flagged as spammers. Even worse is when someone gets marked in one of the black lists because, well, you know their chain letter of [...]
Look Ma! it’s a WHEEL! Seriously commercials on broadcast television are a top annoyance that lead many television addicts to subscribe to premium channels. So far most of Google’s revenue has be ad based and I’ve personally maintained that their unobtrusive text-ads were and are ingenious (too bad they’ve spread across the internet with a [...]
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