Gettin’ In That Patriotic Spirit
To my mind, it just doesn’t get any better than Ray Charles singing “America the Beautiful”. So get your official 4th of July celebrations off on the right foot and give Sir Charles a listen.
Year 2006
Signs Of The Times
Anger management issues aside, I think that the true ramifications of the Times’ (LA & NY) release of information on a top secret financial surveillance program are starting to become clear. The Times’ revelations have effectively killed the SWIFT program,…
Friday Link Dump
Okay, time to toss out all the nifty links that I stumbled over in the past week but never really made it to “full post” status. Enjoy. Vids Kinetic destruction visited upon an old Toyota, rubber band-style. Robin Williams guest-starred…
MacBook ProPowerbook + Surrealist Art + Laser Etcher = A Royal Case Of Envy
Now that’s just cool. An enterprising (and brave!) young lad took a laser etcher to his MBPPB and the above is the result. That’s pretty darn cool, if you ask me. The source image was Magritte’s “Son of Man“: Now…
Thank Heavens For That!
I get all manner of annoying spam comments that pile up in my Akismet queue and I normally take a quick fly-by of the queue each morning to make sure that no legit comments were accidentally flagged. This morning, I…
Right. What’s A Cubit?
Okay, this flooding thing is getting on my nerves. It was raining so hard two nights ago that our house was almost shaking from the sheer force of the water – darn storm woke me up at 3:30am, then the…
Putting A Face On Abortion
I stumbled across this story the other day and found myself getting a bit choked up as I read the story of Gianna Jessen. A Colorado state house representative by the name of Ted Harvey heard her sing in a…
Hey, I Can Keep Perfect Time!
“White men can’t clap.” -Senator Barrack Obama (D-IL) [paraphrase] Wheee, ain’t reverse racism and generalizations fun? Color this cracker amused.
Just When You Thought They Couldn’t Get ANY Dumber
…A Senator goes and proposes a pimp tax. I’m pretty certain that it’s official now: Congress has jumped the shark.
Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That!
So how was the top of Mt. Everest? Faaabulousssss! Bwahahaha.
