Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision in Roper v. Simmons has me absolutely fuming. The five “all-knowing” justices decided they knew far better than we troglodytic knuckledraggers out here in Red America what constitutes Right, Good and Proper in a true example…
I’ve always wondered what it would take to get a tenured teacher fired these days. Apparently, the line isn’t insulting and demeaning your first grade class, using questionable language in the presence of children, burping loudly at staff meetings or…
I must have missed out on the point when the Lefty side of the media coined this one (as it’s apparently been around for a bit), but James Taranto used “karlrovian conspiracy” in today’s Best of the Web. Heh. First…
Deprived of my normal Wednesday morning Preston & Steve “Lost” theories, I listened to BBC’s “The World” broadcast on NPR as I made my way in to work today. Today’s broadcast lead with coverage of the ongoing protests in Lebanon…
For those of you interested in following the ongoing events in Lebanon, check out HundredPercenter’s gallery of pictures from Beirut. They’re quite moving, if you ask me.
If you’re interested in a rubber band gun that will put the Firewheel to shame, check out this rubber band Gatling gun. Wowsers.
The Wall Stree Journal has an interesting piece describing how companies are finding that establishing corporate blogs goes a long way towards “connecting” with their customer base. The money graf, as far as that thesis is concerned: The blog as…
From the posted-even-though-no-one-but-me-will-get-a-kick-out-of-it dept. I know that we systems administrators tend to be a bit of an odd lot, but there’s been a quote that has floated around sysadmin circles for years. There are quite a few variations, but the…
Faced with the annoyingly insipid attack on George Bush Chris Rock decided was ‘A-list’ material, enough so to headline his performance at the Oscars, Jeff Goldstein did what he does best: lampooned the crap out of Rock’s idiotic GAP/Banana Republic…
The recent events in Lebanon and Egypt have drawn my memory back to a conversation I had in my high school days with Brad’s mom. Brad and I were standing in his family’s kitchen, talking about current events (what the…
