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My opinion on much of Joe Lieberman's politics: The majority of people are sick of it. They think our political system is sick. I blame politicians and news media who have created an environment of symbiotic dipshittery.
Weird. It looks like Adobe recently stopped offering a 30-day trial version of Dreamweaver. Wonder why...
And guess what. It's vacant of any facts, and yet has lots of plums, such as the title, "Meet on the Web, More Likely to Divorce?", and...:
But more than 10 years after the Internet transformed dating, one question remains: Are these couples living happily ever after, or are they more likely to meet with divorce lawyers?Although there are no official divorce statistics for those who met online, one thing is certain: Just as in marriages that began in more traditional ways, love stories created from online matches don't always have fairy tale endings.
Okay, this just in - we're going to write about something we have no data on.
Or under the heading "Online Affairs Rising":
There's no formal data, but some lawyers say they are seeing more of these clients show up on their doorsteps. New Jersey divorce attorney Eric Spevak is one of them. He says online-dating-related splits started picking up at his practice about five years ago. Spevak estimates that on average, one out of four or five of his firm's divorce cases stem from online dating. "I think it's a trend that will continue," he says.
Oh yes, Eric Spevak, who is trolling to future divorcees as the expert on online-dating-marriage-divorces, is the go-to guy. Neat!
I'm not an advocate (or opponent) for online relationships, but sometimes you have to call BS on a story.
I've always felt that graduation ceremonies are for graduates, their families and friends. That's it. It's their accomplishment that is being celebrated, their success at completing a program of higher education.
Why don't colleges survey their graduates to determine who they wish to have as speakers at commencement? Sure, pre-Internet, that couldn't be done, but now it can. Why should graduates have to suffer through the rantings of someone they don't appreciate on their big day?
Why should colleges treat this as being all about them? It's really about marking the point of separation from them by graduates - so why let colleges make the choice for commencement speaker alone?
Perhaps St. Vincent College will pick up on this thrust, and won't allow St. Vincent President Jim Towey to make such choices without graduating student approval in the future. That is, unless they want Cheney to speak there next year.
A few weeks ago, using Avedon Carol's blogroll, I posted this:
below are a list of blogs that I would appreciate being blogrolled from, and that I think the content here is appropriate to be blogrolled from on a regular basis. And I'd provide a link back, obviously. I'm mostly curious as to whether anyone will salute such an approach - you know, blog barter diplomacy.
It worked better than I expected - and I've added several blogs to the blogroll due to it, and so, I thought I'd try it again. This time, I'll use Skippy's blogroll, as seen below:
Blah3 - CorrenteWire - Cryptome - Dependable Renegage - Excuse the Mess... That was Just My Head - First Draft - Main and Central - One Good Move - Rising Hegemon - Scrutiny Hooligans - Today in Iraq - WTF Is It Now? - American Leftist - And, yes, I DO take it personally - The Barefoot Bum - Big Tent Democrat - Blue Girl, Red State - Democratic Left Infoasis - Dr. X's Free Associations - Drawing The Line - Edgeing - Hill Country Gal - Jelly Pizza - Kmareka - Left End of the Dial - Lotus - Surviving a Dark Time - The Mandarin - my Thinking spot - Never in Our Names - The Osterly Times - Peace, Love and Erica Campbell - Real's World - SocraticGadfly - VidiotSpeak - Welcome to Pottersville - Welcome to the Revolution - The American Street - Booman Tribune - Calitics - ePluribus Media - Independent Bloggers' Alliance - MyDD - My Left Wing - Square State - SoapBox Blue Jersey - West Virginia Blue - 618 Rants and Raves - The Adventures of the Smart Patrol - The Agonist - Alien & Sedition - Altercation - Alternet's Peek - All Things Democrat - Amahchewahwah - American Politics Journal - American Samizdat - And Yes, I Do Take It Personally - Apostropher - Arblogger - Archy - Are You Effin' Kidding Me? - As I Please - B12 Solipsism - Bad Attitudes - Badtux the Snarky Penguin - The Barefoot Bum - Bear Waller Hollar - Michael Berube Online - A Bird and a Bottle - Billmon - Blast Off! - BlogAmY - The Blogging Curmudgeon - Blogging Out Loud - Bloggityblog-Blog-Blog - Blogtopus - Blogwood: Norwood's Nattering - BlondeSense - Blue Gal - Blue Girl, Red State - Blue Grass Roots - Blue Streak - Body and Soul - The Brad Blog - Bride of Acheron - Brilliant at Breakfast - The Broad View - Bring It On - Buddhist Jihad - Bunko Squad - Burned Over District - Busy, Busy, Busy - Cannablog - Captain Dyke - Chapomatic - Chuck for - Coeruleus - The Core4 - The Countess - Covert History - Coyote Mercury - Staring at Empty Pages - Crooks & Liars - Cynical Nation - D-Day - The Daily Background - The Daily Blatt - dKos Bloggers - Dashiell - Gail Davis - DC Media Girl - Brad De Long - Deb's Quirky Web - The Democratic Daily - Democratic Veteran - Disguested in St. Louis - Dizzy Dayz - DemoKat - D.R. Scott's Pulp Culture - Drinking Liberally in New Milford - Done With Mirrors - Down With Tyranny! - Doxagora - Echidne of the Snakes - Electrolite - Ellen's Illinois 10th Congressional District Blog - Evil George's Personal Website - Evil Mommy - Ex Cathedra - Faux Real - Fiat Lux - Fire Ant - Firedog Lake - First Draft - Fold to Combine - Folkbum's Rambles and Rants - Foreign Policy Watch - The Galloping Beaver - Bob Geiger - Good Nonsense - Grits for Breakfast - Gropinator - The Gypsy's Caravan - The Hackenblog by ginger mayerson - Happy Furry Puppy Story Time w/Norbizness - Harp and Sword - Bob Harris - Hoffmania - Hoot at the Dark - Hotflash - Howard-Empowered People - Hullabaloo - Humor Has It - If I Ran the Zoo - The Immoral Minority - The Impolitic - Incertus - Instaputz - Interrobang's Internationale:The Real Interroblog - Intrepid Liberal Journal - Jelly Pizza - The Jewish Blog - Jinky the Cat - Jobsanger - John's Blog - Just Ain't Right - The Kenosha Kid's Blog - Kid Oakland - The Kitchen Sink Collective - Knoxviews - Last One Speaks - The Left End of the Dial v2.0 - Lawnorder - Left I on the News - Left in SF - Lean Left - Liberal Catnip - Liberal Common Sense - Liberal Oasis - A Lie A Day - Like Sunday - Linkmeister - Loaded Mouth - Lunaville - Mahablog - Main St. USA - Majikthise - Make Them Accountable - Man Eegee - Taylor Marsh - Max Speak - Media Needle - Mia Culpa - Migra Matters - Mister Apologist - Mr. Helpful - Mixter's Mix - The Moderate Man - Monkeyfister - My Thinking Corner - My Two Cents - My View of It - Needlenose - The Needs of the Few - Newsback - The News Blog by Steve Gilliard - Newscoma - Newsroom-L.Net - New Pairodimes - Nine Pearls - No Blood for Hubris - No Fish, No Nuts - North Shore Journal - Old Fashioned Patriot - Objectivist v. Constuctivist v. Theist - Olio - Orcinus - P! - Pacific Views - Patriot Daily - Patriside - Peace Tree Farm - People's Republic of Seabrook - Perception Managers - Peripetia - Pissed on Politics - Plucky Punk's Happyland - Plum Crazy - Political Animal - The Political Cat - Politickybitch - The Poor Man Institute - Pudentilla's Perspective - Pygalgia - Ranger Against War - Rants from the Rookery - Reality Frame - The Reef Ahead - Resident Bush - Rittenhouse Review - Rodger A. Payne's Blog - Roger Ailes, Over and Out - Rubber Hose - Rude Pundit - Ruminate This - Sack of Monkeys in My Pocket - Sadly, No! - Scoobie Davis - Shadow of the Hegemon - Simply Left Behind - Sisyphus Shrugged - Skimble - Louise Slaughter - Smirking Chimp - the S.N.A.F.U. principle - Snow Moon - Solarray - Spiiderweb - The Spinning Goth - Spocko's Brain - Spontaneous Arising - Staring at Empty Pages - SteveAudio - The Strange Death of Liberal America - Stump Lane - Survivor Left Blogistan - The Talent Show - Talk Left - Talking Dog - Tami, The One True - Tholos of Athena - Three Wise Men - Tbogg - Tom Tomorrow - Joe Trippi - The Truth Laid Bear - Truth Serum - Two Ton Green Blog - Universal Health - Unsolicited Opinion - The Vanity Press - Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy - Virgotext - Vodka Pundit - Vidiot Speak - Waiting for Dorothy - Watergate Summer - Westminster Wisdom - West Virginia Blue - Whiskey Fire - The Whole American Hog - WTF Is It Now? - tblog - Xoverboard - Zen Comix - ZenYenta -Anxiety, Addiction and Depression Treatments - The Biomes Blog - A Blog Around the Clock - Deltoid (Tim Lambert) - The Intersection (Chris Mooney) - Mike the Mad Biologist(Mike) - Pharyngula, by PZ Myers - Quark Soup - Respectful Insolence - Science and Politics
(yeah, it's a huge list)
I dunno, this caught my eye for some reason as something to do:
May 19, 2007 – Art Walk and Wine Tasting, 12 noon - 5pm, Downtown Mechanicsburg.
The event features artist's in area businesses and wine tasting at designated businesses (not all businesses will have the wine tasting). Wine glasses will be available for purchase before the event at the 2nd Floor Gallery on Market St. Proceeds from this event will help to fund "Concerts on the Corner" during the summer.
Mechanicsburg is a quaint little town outside of Harrisburg, and I could see this being pretty successful. I'm not tied into the Mechanicsburg Chamber or the local artist community, so I'm not sure who is involved or what the local art community can contribute, but if we're around maybe we'll do this.
That's right. I made it last night for dinner, first time in years, maybe decades. Kids didn't like it. I wasn't thrilled either, but I ate my share of the glop. Oh well. Probably won't do that again.
In "honor" of our dinner, news about Hamburger Helper:
Hamburger Helper is giving away up to $15,000 a month to help fund projects in communities throughout the country. However, that program ends next month, with the final award being announced Tuesday, May 15.Oregon's Governor is chowing down on Hamburger Helper.
This week the Governor of Oregon is finding out how challenging it can be to feed a family on a food stamp budget....
"We try to keep it simple as possible... that's why during the week we have a lot of polish sausages, macaroni and cheese, hamburger helper, things that are quick and easy"
We may not harbor fond memories of family dinners gathered around a steaming skillet of Hamburger Helper, but there's no doubt that most of us have a soft spot for comforting one-pot meals. When everyone's working -- even the kids -- casseroles are a necessary convenience. Convenience, however, often comes at a price, hence the popularity of almost-prepared dishes like the hamburger one. But you can still help your ground meat and make a great meal without opening a box.
Bon Appetit!
What kind of mulch do you use?
(btw, this might deter insects but attract kids)
as if it's not legitimate. But it is a legitimate question:
One of the things that the National Democratic Party ought to be doing is creating a seal of sorts for the National Republican Party that it can use in the long-term as part of its message about the Republican Party.
And it should definitely carry imagery of one Mr. George W. Bush - probably a recognizable silhouette. That Party deserves to be tagged with the Dubya stigma forever.
And some other items of interest:
If you're so inclined, there's a debate tonight with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Bill Richardson, Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel.
Best line about Rich Little's "comedy" performance at the Correspondents Dinner, from a commenter at Balloon Juice:
"If Rich Little was actually funny he would have come up onto stage with a perfect Stephen Colbert impression and destroyed the whole bunch again."
Well, at least Turner County High School eventually had an integrated prom. Or will have, in 2007. You know, CNN is in Georgia, you'd think they would have reported on this story in their backyard before today.
My neighbor has this sort of fungus growing in his mulch.
Condi gets her subpoena. About time.
Great question, rarely gets asked. What does "win" mean for the United States in Iraq?
Good to know the Top Ten Internet Crimes of 2006 so you're not a victim of it in 2007.
I haven't seen much this year to recommend the NBA, either.
I'd like to see this experiment for a month, just once, by a news organization such as CNN. Instead of labeling people as Republicans or Democrats, any elected official would be labeled as a member of either the majority party in Congress, or the minority party in Congress.
It's pretty clear that David Broder isn't paying attention - or no longer can pay attention - to the world anymore. At least the world I see. Anyone out there think there's just one war going on right now? I see two:
The War on Terror - which is why we we went to Afghanistan.
The War in Iraq - which is the war Reid says we cannot win - because we've allowed a civil war to start.
There's been a lot of confusion of the two wars, but there are two, and America knows it, regardless of how the Bush Administration tries to combine them. Does Broder understand that? Unknown, but his nitpicking of Reid's language about the "war" is really a waste of opportunity to write about something meaningful, and really is just a bone of contentiousness to give Republicans to chew on.
I'm sorry, comparing Senator Harry Reid to Alberto Gonzales is an insult to anyone listening. Gonzales is going to end up being seen as THE WORST ATTORNEY GENERAL IN OUR HISTORY. In the WORST PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION IN OUR HISTORY. Reid won't be seen as the worst anything. By making this comparison, Broder is implying that as long as Reid is in the Senate, it's okay for Gonzales to be AG. That is an unacceptable argument for anyone to be making.
At this point, people ought to be asking, what is Broder's motivation for why he writes what he writes? There's a lot of blogging out there that he's "confused", but nobody seems to call Broder out and ask him why he's writing what he does. Does he honestly think the perspective he's writing from - and the political alchemy he seems to expect from the Democrats but not from the Republicans - is reasonable? Is acceptable to Americans? Or is it what the bosses want...
And so I just don't get all the Rosie (palm) verbal lathering by Republican bloggers.
Stewart should win in a landslide. McCain's candidacy is caught in a Bushslide.
Bush's good times - when make believe wasn't disproven:
April 24, 2003
President Gives Iraq Update to Workers of Tank Plant in Lima, Ohio
Remarks by the President at Lima Army Tank Plant - Lima, OhioOur mission -- besides removing the regime that threatened us, besides ending a place where the terrorists could find a friend, besides getting rid of weapons of mass destruction -- our mission has been to bring a humanitarian aid and restore basic services, and put this country, Iraq, on the road to self- government. And we'll stay as long as it takes to complete our mission. And then all our forces are going to leave Iraq and come home. (Applause.)
And we're making progress. There's tangible, visible progress on the ground there in Iraq. Step by step, the citizens of that country are reclaiming their own country. They're identifying former officials who are guilty of crimes. That deck of cards seems to be getting complete over time. (Laughter.) They're volunteering for citizens patrols to provide security in the cities. They're beginning to understand that they need to step up and be responsible citizens if they want to live in peace and a free society.
Many Iraqis are now reviving religious rituals which were forbidden by the old regime. See, a free society honors religion. A free society is a society which believes in the freedom of religion. And many Iraqis are now -- (applause.) Many Iraqis are now speaking their mind in public. That's a good sign. (Laughter.) That means a new day has come in Iraq. When Saddam was the dictator, and you spoke your mind he would cut out your tongue and leave you to bleed to death in a town square. No fooling. That's how he dealt with dissidence.
Today, in Iraq, there's discussion, debate, protest, all the hallmarks of liberty. (Laughter and applause.) The path to freedom may not always be neat and orderly, but it is the right of every person and every nation. This country believes that freedom is God's gift to every individual on the face of the Earth. (Applause.)
Last week there was an historic gathering that occurred in the city of al Nasiriyah, where Iraqis met openly and freely to discuss the future of their country. And out of that meeting came this declaration by the Iraqis that were there: Iraq must be democratic. And that's the goal, the commitment of the United States and our coalition partners -- Iraq must be democratic. And as new Iraqi leaders begin to emerge, we'll work with them. One thing is certain: We will not impose a government on Iraq. We will help that nation build a government of, by, and for the Iraqi people. (Applause.)
Our country and our good allies are working to create the conditions for lasting peace. We're aiding the advance of peace by seeking the advance of freedom. Free societies do not nurture bitterness, or the ideologies of terror and murder. Free societies are founded on the belief that every life has equal value. Free societies -- free societies turn creative gifts of men and women toward progress and the betterment of their own lives. American interests and American founding beliefs lead in the same direction. We stand for human liberty. (Applause.)
Second, the Democratic leadership's proposal is aimed at restricting the ability of our generals to direct the fight in Iraq. They've imposed legislative mandates, they passed legislative mandates telling them which enemies they can engage and which they cannot. That means our commanders in the middle of a combat zone would have to take fighting directions from legislators 6,000 miles away on Capitol Hill. The result would be a marked advantage for our enemies and a greater danger for our troops
I can't see how the advantage would be any greater for the enemy, or the danger any greater to the troops, than allowing George W. Bush to be Commander in Chief. That has been absolutely disastrous. So, if we're for improving our chances, the first course of business should be removing Bush from office.
To be fair to Sheryl Crow, it's only natural to think of TP when you think of Karl Rove.
While waiting for my doctor's appointment today, Fox News was shoved down our throats in the waiting room, and low and behold, there's the Amazing Shrinking President on television, trying to convince America that he's right about Iraq and Congress is wrong. Did he look believable? No. Did he look like he believed what he was saying? Not particularly. He looked like a man who is defeated himself, but won't admit it to anyone else. Defeated in his efforts, defeated in his philosophy, with no energy and no effort to find "the answer" for the country beyond repeating what he has done and said.
Bush is defeat, personalized. As long as he's in charge, America has been defeated, because of lack of brainpower and reasoning and ability in the White House.
It's too late for Iraq as it was envisioned. Bush has lost it. Bush. Has. Lost. It. And he's spent 4 years, treasure and blood doing so. And he's committed to losing more until his term is over.
Americans decry losing wars, and they decry those who point out a losing effort, and they decry those who want to get out of losing wars. But there's a point where brains have to trump brawn, that mind must be used over muscle, that the wise must be listened to over the loud. We can't win this war with George W. Bush as President. There's no way. He's not a leader - look at the national polls. He's not smart about war. Look at our Iraq experience. He's a drain on this country. And he's not doing anything now except managing until the end of the season, to take a baseball analogy. He knows he's going to be fired. It's just that he knows the owner will wait until the end of the season to dump him.
Is America really going to let this awful President keep us in Iraq? Only if Congress lets him.
Heard an acquaintance who has a daughter with cerebral palsy talking about raising her a few weeks ago. I just haven't thought much from perspectives like hers before, and it makes me a bit sad that I haven't. She had been asked by a friend about the most tiring parts of raising her child, and one of the things she mentioned was fundraising. She hates fundraising, because it makes her feel like some kind of "loser" for not being able to afford what her child needs. But both her and her husband work, and they raise her child, and her needs have considerably extra costs, of which insurance doesn't completely cover (and in some cases doesn't cover at all).
The biggest problem about fundraising is the amount of work it takes to do it - coordination, management, development, etc. I think about the amount of work my wife and I go through raising our own children and having jobs and paying mortgages and I wonder how somebody who has a semi-regular need for a fundraiser finds the time to do what is required to make the fundraiser successful. It seems like it needs to be turnkey to a point, something that can be turned on and off based on need.
I wonder if the minds that came up with CafePress might be able to create such a fundraising venue, online. Is there a web opportunity to help these families out?
Don't drink anything while watching, because this is full of spit-takes.
Some stories you may have missed:
Apparently, THIS is the biggest mass murder in U.S. History, back in 1927. Oh, and opposition to higher taxes was involved.
BlueGrassRoots states that Windows Vista sucks.
Note to Philadelphia - unemployment rates seems to track national patterns, not local economic development projects.
I love this version of "My Generation".
I'm so sick of MoDo. How would she like it if the press regularly uncovered worthless tidbits of her life that were implied as values as to how she does her job? What kind of tampons does she buy? Does she get her eyebrows waxed? How many times a day does she brush her teeth?
Here's another question - how much money did Washington spend on his hair? How much did Lincoln spend on his hats? How about FDR and those cigarette holders?
How did Continental Divide miss being on this list?
Is it time we have a national discussion about the merits of the Navy's Blue Angels? They've been around a long time - Nimitz ordered them started - and I understand that they have entertainment value, but what is the real value to the Navy, in actual evidence?
There are lots of little municipal parks like this in Central Pennsylvania. This one is in Camp Hill.
In honor of the start of the season.
When I was a kid, I don't believe there was anything called "tee ball". Now it's somewhat of an institution, although many leagues now call it "instructional league".
So why doesn't Noah Stahl go to private school?
If you don't have children or wish to send yours to private school, opponents of capitalism say too bad - you must sacrifice your earnings to pay for the public education of others.
Ah, hypocrisy - this was written by a student at Iowa State University trying to state that "forced sacrifice" isn't necessary. Iowa State University isn't a private school. The State of Iowa currently pays for 48% of the cost of education at the Regent universities, including Iowa State University.
They aren't general managers, so let Petrie do the job.
Musselman fired by the Sacramento Kings.
Now, if we can somehow work it that we pick up Mike Conley Jr. in the draft...
Any Republican that still thinks that Alberto Gonzales should be Attorney General prioritizes loyalty over all other values. In fact, all other values are superseded by loyalty. It's a damaging choice of highest value, but it's the choice of those who are insecure as their own decisionmaking.
This also explains the 30 percent or so that still think the Loyalty Chief is doing a good job.
If Bush had poll numbers that were above urinal cakes, the idea that Gonzales' staying on is loyal would be laughable. He would be seen as damaging to the Bush presidency, and loyalty would require him to leave the Administration.
However, with Bush's continued minimal level of support, Gonzales actually doesn't hurt him much. Those of us appalled by the self-admitted pathetic management by Gonzales have already been appalled by similar management results in Iraq and with Katrina. We are not surprised by the mismanagement. We are grossly disappointed that it is approved by the President to continue.
But with Katrina and to some point with Iraq, eventually those loyal were let go in an effort to protect the President's standing in America. Brownie was dropped. Paul Bremer was sent packing. Even Rumsfeld lost his title.
Bush's poll numbers are hurting America, because he no longer has much to lose, and he's behaving as if he knows it. He expands the war, he says he's planning to veto funding for the troops, he keeps Gonzales though even Senate Republicans are calling on Gonzales to leave. And honestly, what does Bush have to lose?
In terms of support, it's hard to say what would wake up the remaining 30 or so percent. Bush could eat a baby's head served to him by Cheney on television, and as long as he was repeating Republican mantra while doing it, there would still be this unmoved support. "Mistakes were made," Bush would admit, "but there was no way of knowing I was eating a baby's head. Now stop talking about this, or the terrorists win." And Limbaugh and crew would repeat it, and the loyalty-driven Bushies would repeat it, and the Bushfollowers would accept it.
Competence, understanding, effectiveness and intelligence all matter, and America has suffered from a deficit of this from the Executive Branch through this decade. All we get is Republican loyalty, which just brings another heaping bowlful of new shit every month or so. When are the 30 percenters going to wake up and realize that loyalty is a one-way street with this Administration, and they're going to end up suffering as much as the rest of us?
And all the other wonderful things that kids call cleft chins.
And a list of my siblings-in-cleft...In a question-and-answer period after his speech, Rove was asked whose idea it was to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq.
``I think it was Osama bin Laden's,'' Rove replied.
Maybe we really shouldn't consider it "global unionism" until countries like China and India are under the umbrella. This is more like "Trans-Atlantic" unionism.
But for anyone in a long distance relationship, here are some tips for making homemade porn.
Lesson in short: Communities shouldn't install on their web site an online bulletin board unless they accept that they eventually will have disagreements take place on the message board.
Having said that, there's a lot of value of taking disagreements to a bulletin board, the primary value being that all sides can have their arguments and their point-making capabilities displayed for all to see, and people aren't loaded with just one side's viewpoint. Organizations need to have rules for acceptable behavior and language on a bulletin board, and manage the board so those rules are followed, but it's not an impossible situation to manage.
Followup: Posting about bulletin boards is dangerous, too - see all the comment spam it generates below.
After showing a government issued photo ID – his green card – and a driver's license to prove his Virginia residency, Cho Seung-Hui charged $571 on a credit card and walked out of Roanoke Firearms with a new 9 mm Glock 19 and 50 rounds of ammunition.
"If we see a resident alien with a credit card, it's usually a good indication that they're a good upstanding citizen, not someone who would go on a shooting spree," Markell says.
Pennsylvania is second only to New York in projected production potential for wind energy east of the Mississippi, according to the wind energy association. Wind turbines installed in Pennsylvania are projected to produce 179 megawatts of electricity annually, with another 80 megawatts proposed or under construction. A megawatt is roughly enough energy to power 1 million homes.
So much out there, it's easy to do, especially when a story like Virginia Tech dominates so much thought and conversation. Check them out:
Who will be the first to go: Gonzales or Wolfowitz?
I wish I had enough money to buy a mammoth. I wouldn't buy one, but wish I had the cash.
Good for Home Depot, who have embarked what they claim will be the largest green labeling program in American retailing.
I wonder after the whole Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction thing if nipple jewelry sales increased.
Can you feel the inflation?
Kucinich knows the order for impeachment. Cheney first.
I suspect you're not looking at this content through a Blackberry right now...
I guess I'm no doctor. Ortho looked at my knee, I get an MRI today, but he thinks it is a meniscus tear (torn cartilage). Arthroscopy likely. Apparently pretty common for people my age. That's a saying I'm going to learn to hate - people my age.
There's too many people who immediately wanted to jump on the possibility that yesterday's murders at Virginia Tech could have been a conspiracy - and perhaps terrorism. The world is full of angry people, and unfortunately, too many of them are willing to commit violence. There's no conspiracy in that.
But, I have to admit, this incident suggests something out to me - how possible it is that one person - one previously relatively unknown person - could entice the United States to the brink of war. Just imagine if this shooter had been from the Middle East. Imagine further that the murderer had come from Iranian descent, with relatives still in Iran. The angry people of America would be out in force, deep in bloodlust. No proof of connection to Iran would be accepted by this crowd. Would Bush try to satiate their bloodlust?
Shouldn't it be a required skill for elected officials?
PITTSTON TWP. — Faced with an electricity bill emergency, firefighters turned up the heat on the township supervisors Thursday.Members of the Pittston Township Volunteer Fire Department met with the township supervisors in the afternoon to request the township pay the company’s overdue bills to avoid a power shutoff next week.
After a two-hour meeting filled with arguing, shouting and podium pounding, Supervisors John Paglianite, Joseph Adams and Anthony Attardo agreed to pay the latest electricity and phone bills and study other ways to help.
PPL threatened to shut off the power to the Bryden Street firehouse on March 27 unless an overdue bill of about $203 was paid. Another bill is coming March 28 for about $109. The fire company also owes about $212 in wireless and regular phone bills.
The company had sent the electricity and phone bills to the supervisors for the township to pay because the fire company is receiving about $5,000 less from the township this year. That’s because the supervisors eliminated the 14-mill real estate tax on residential properties last year.
The fire company previously received about 1 mill worth of tax revenue, equal to about $14,000, each year, but with the tax now just imposed on commercial properties, the company only received $8,800 last year.
The supervisors claimed they did not know what impact the tax cut would have.
Brilliant!
Isn't this more than one nation's airwaves should endure?
Here's my question about Mr. King: How many times, particularly in the last 22 years, has someone said:
"Oh, it's Larry King."
You sit there on the couch with your remote, it's a commercial on the program you're watching, so you go hunting for something interesting for a couple of minutes. CNN is good for two minute chunks of material, so you flip to CNN. And then you realize...
"Oh, it's Larry King."
and you're off to another channel.
I don't want to ignore this story in the blog, because nationally we're all thinking about it and discussing it. On the other hand, there's still so little known and yet so much repetitive blogging about it, there's little need to add to it. It is a national tragedy, and I'm like everyone else, sad and angry that so much life was wasted yesterday by the actions of one violent criminal.
When the public knows so little about what occurred at Virginia Tech today, what is the upside of blogging speculation that it could be terrorist-related? I guess I really don't understand why, when in a position of ignorance that most of us are currently in about the facts of the case, somebody would do this.
I'm short on time to blog today and also looking for some new music to listen to, so...
What new recordings has been released in the last few months that you're really enjoying and want to recommend?
But I don't get canker sores very much any more...
A new over-the-counter patch may help canker sores heal faster.
Scientists (including the patch's inventor) announced that news today in New Orleans at the 85th general session of the International Association for Dental Research.
The researchers studied 46 adults with recurrent canker sores, also called recurrent aphthous ulcers.
Half of the patients received the patches, called Cankermelts, which the researchers say contain licorice extract to curb inflammation. Those patients were told to put the herbal patch over their canker sore for 16 hours per day but not to wear the patches while sleeping.
For comparison, the other patients didn't get the patches and agreed not to use any other canker sore treatment.
Every day for eight days, the patients rated their canker sore pain and got their canker sores photographed and checked by the researchers.
Before treatment, the patients' average canker sore pain and average canker sore size was similar for both groups.
But by the end of the eight-day study, the patients who wore the canker sore patches had less canker sore pain and smaller canker sores than the untreated group.
Well, although it seemed like my recuperation from my knee injury in late February was close to complete, and I was feeling pretty good about my self-diagnosis and treatment, I re-injured it Friday and I'm now convinced that a look by an orthopedist is required. Pretty disappointing, I had gotten back to playing basketball with very little pain, and then I mess up my knee again chasing a softball down a hill.
TOOBIN: Well, Gonzales has two things going for him on Tuesday. One is the Democrats on that committee are absolutely terrible at asking questions. They are incompetent questioners, as they illustrated during the Roberts and Alito hearings. They like to talk much more than they like to ask questions. So that's a big thing that Gonzales has going for him.
No shit. I am so sick of the speeches when serious questions are needing to be asked. I hope, in a way, that Toobin's point should be a spur to these Senators to get their shit together and ask the toughest of questions.
Unfortunately, this question can't be answered in a vacuum, or ivory halls. It doesn't include scope or reach or degrees or real options. Would I rather have Bush gone than Imus gone? Of course. Would I rather have O'Reilly off the air than Imus? Of course. But that's not the choice available to the marketplace. The marketplace choice is, can the MSNBC and CBS audiences grow, and be better served, and MSNBC and CBS better compensated, by someone other than Don Imus? MSNBC and CBS made the decision that the answer was yes after this fiasco. Many bloggers, including myself, felt that way LONG BEFORE this incident ever occurred.
It's a question that isn't asked often enough about everyone in the news media. Take Tim Russert. Could NBC grow marketplace and improve political coverage by replacing Tim Russert with someone else? It's a worthwhile discussion in my opinion, but it won't be discussed by the media at large unless Russert screws up royally, either by severely diminished ratings or an Imus-sized blunder.
Some of Althouse's commenters recognize that Imus will probably get another gig if he wants, and will still have distribution. And maybe he won't have learned, and will say much of the same thing he has been saying. In that case, perhaps Althouse will consider a better question:
What kinds of standards and practices should America expect from television and radio "news" programming now?
