Mozilla Firefox 1.5 has been released. You can download it from one of the mirror sites or from the main site. My search plugins got clobbered during the installation process; this is reasonably easy to set right again, but be aware of this potential problem, if that’s something that would bother you much. Update, 2005/11/30, [...]
First 50 Cent, now media liberal Chris Matthews: I like him [i.e. President Bush]. Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs, maybe on the left — I mean — like him personally. Well, readers, I reckon that makes me a real whack-job. President Bush, gangsta, personally likable Dumpendebat, a real whack-job, [...]
Here’s a link to a good article you should read if you’ve got the time: “The Strange Case of Chaplain Yee,” by Joseph Lelyveld, in the 2005/12/15 NYRB Actually, it appears, all Captain Yee had to do to attract suspicion was to intercede repeatedly at Camp Delta on behalf of the prisoners, as their chaplain, [...]
Rapper 50 Cent thinks President Bush is a “gangsta” and has given him props: Fiddy even said that if he didn’t have felony convictions preventing him from balloting, he would have voted for Bush in the last election. As breaking news reports, Fiddy said: “He’s is incredible… A gangster. I wanna meet George Bush, just [...]
Dumpendebat agreeing with Michelle Malkin… rare, but it happens. Michelle: “How about shut up and publish, and leave the anti-tobacco zealotry to the ashtray cops?” Anti-tobacco zealotry is by no means the property of the political Left, readers. Smokers (20% of the American population) come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and creeds. Unfortunately, so do [...]
No particular theme, no unifying motif, just a few random tracks from the extensive Dum Pendebat Filius library for you to download and enjoy on a weekend in late November, beloved readers. 1. T. Raumschmiere — “Monstertruckdriver” (3.25 MB, 03:32) — From the 2003 LP “Radio Blackout” (Novamute CD 3079-2). Impossible to classify taxonomically, but [...]
Here are links to two good articles from the 2005/12/01 LRB: “Remember me” by Adam Phillips, on Bret Easton Ellis Ellis’s characters come after Balzac’s in the sense that they are already inordinately wealthy – many have both inherited money and made considerable amounts of it – and are already stranded by their inordinate success, [...]
Happy Thanksgiving, readers, moonbats, wingnuts and language enthusiasts alike.
1. “Pscyho-Hollywood” Here’s an eructation from “David’s Blog,” in its entirety, misspellings and hyperlinks inclusive: Pscyho-Hollywood: Rob Reiner “To send people off to die for a lie–I swear I never thought I’d see that again my lifetime. We went through it in Vietnam. To me, it’s the most unconscionable thing you can do.” Thus spake [...]
You haven’t gotten any MP3s in a long time, readers, so it’s high time I rectified that omission. What’s going on these days in the world of “breakbeat”? A couple years ago, some sub-subgenre called “Tampa Breaks” seemed to be very popular. I tried some of it and wasn’t very impressed. Recently, I came across [...]
