Doug

Doug

Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...

Initial Migration Complete

I’ve moved the core of the site over to WordPress 1.5, so at the very least all posts should be working now. You’ll probably notice that most of the images won’t work for a while and things like polls I…

Fun Spam Of The Day

Well, at least they’re trying to entertain me while spamming my inbox: Subject: Greetings, white man! 🙂 From: Calliope M. Satanism < [email address deleted]> To: [me] Message: Salut! [spam link clipped] Before honor is humility. Nabad gelyo [another spam…

Irony Overload

Has the world gone mad? Stockard Channing continues to be the voice of AIG Auto Insurance ads. Auto insurance. Am I the only one who sees a problem here?

Nicknaming The USS Jimmy Carter

Apparently, it’s rather common for ships of the US Navy to be given widely-accepted nicknames that more accurately portray their namesakes. For instance, the USS Theodore Roosevelt is apparently known as “the Big Stick”, the USS Ronald Reagan is known…

Rooting For Failure

Kurt Andersen notes some odd inconsistencies on the cultural Left’s part, post Iraqi elections. A key quote: But now our heroic and tragic liberal-intellectual capaciousness is facing its sharpest test since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Back then, most…

Mainstream Media Alert

For all your journalist types, Frank J. provides some valuable information regarding your new nemeses: blogs and the bloggers who, well, blog.