Archive for January, 2007
Posted: Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 @ 2:02 pm in Political | 6 Comments »
Did Joe Biden trip over his own dick, or what? Here’s what he said about Barack Obama:
Mr. Biden is equally skeptical — albeit in a slightly more backhanded way — about Mr. Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 @ 10:30 pm in Political | 3 Comments »
We’re going to war with Iran, folks. Soon. Look at what’s on the front page of CNN.com right now:
“Pentagon halts sales of F-14 parts” (because the Iranians have F-14 Tomcats, which we sold them in the 1970s).
“Are the Iranians Out for Revenge?”, a short piece from Time magazine. “We should count on [Iran] [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 25th, 2007 @ 3:23 pm in Political | 6 Comments »
Crazy Pammy wants to know who’s responsible for a smear website called ObamaTruth.org. She claims it “wreaks [sic] of Clinton dirty pool… They mean to destroy Barak [sic] Obama.” (She also, en passant, makes a bid for Bizarro World Claim of the Month: “They [the Clintons] invented the politics of personal destruction.”)
Well, [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 25th, 2007 @ 2:17 pm in Misc | 2 Comments »
O.J. has been on my mind lately. First it was Slate’s Timothy Noah and the “subjunctive tense” (see below). The subject of that Slate piece was a Newsweek article which summarized the controversial book chapter entitled “The Night In Question.”
If you haven’t seen it, and you’re interested, you should read James Wolcott’s review [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 @ 5:08 pm in Siteinfo | No Comments »
Upgrading from WordPress 2.0.7 to the new 2.1 release seems to have screwed things up here. I’ve had to make changes to my stylesheet just to keep things looking the way they were (why??), and the sidebar is screwed up, too (still working on that one). I’m a little bit annoyed, but these [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 @ 1:37 am in Political | 7 Comments »
CNN is now officially claiming to have “debunked” the deeply silly story about Barack Obama’s troubling Childhood of Radical Islam. The story, which you will all have certainly heard about (if you’ve been out of the country for the last few days, you can find the sordid tale at Insight Magazine, whose website seems [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 @ 12:31 am in Misc | 1 Comment »
From the AP wire:
A judge ordered a new trial in a case in which a juror sipped vodka throughout the trial.
Jefferson County Circuit Judge Geoffrey Morris said in his order that new trials may be granted only in the most extreme circumstances.
But he said “the inexcusable, disruptive behavior of this juror was so extraordinary as [...]
Posted: Friday, January 19th, 2007 @ 8:55 pm in Political | 8 Comments »
Remember, readers, if it ever gets cold anywhere on the planet, that means that “global warming” is just a big, dumb liberal lie. Yes, it’s that simple. What global warming?
Posted: Friday, January 19th, 2007 @ 4:13 pm in Misc | No Comments »
How is it, readers, that people are still falling for these Nigerian email scams? Never mind the high amounts of greed and gullibility it would take to fall for one of these scams in the first place, who by now hasn’t heard about them? Who doesn’t get one in their inbox every couple [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 18th, 2007 @ 10:46 pm in Tech | No Comments »
If you copy YouTube’s code to embed a YouTube video in one of your blog posts, your page will not pass validation as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. This is because YouTube’s code contains the deprecated <embed> tag. If such validation matters to you, Bernie Zimmermann will show you the way to embed a YouTube [...]