IEDs blow

Yahoo! News - Tanks take a beating in Iraq:

"In the all-out battles of the 1991 Gulf War, only 18 Abrams tanks were lost and no soldiers in them killed. But since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, with tanks in daily combat against the unexpectedly fierce insurgency, the Army says 80 of the 69-ton behemoths have been damaged so badly they had to be shipped back to the United States. "

Now that's marketing.

Telegraph | News | So what rhymes with a Big Mac?

Let Snopes check it out first, but that's pretty cool in a sell your soul to the devil sort of way.

Googology

Google Search: I am Wil Wheaton's fanboy

I call him Wheaton to keep it impersonal. I obsess over changes in his RSS feed. Firefox l/r scroll bars don't work right. Wheaton's making it. I'm not. What would Wheaton do? I'm not sure, but I bet there'd be an afterparty.

Go home.

Yahoo! News - Schiavo Receives Last Rites, Communion

Home isn't where the heart is, it's where the soul is.

Command line humor

dirty fez:

"login as: dirtyfez
dirtyfez@idontwanttotalktoyou.org's password: fuckyouverymuch
Last login: Tue Mar 15 18:44:02 2005 from thebar.crowneplaza.com
[dirtyfez@liverdamage dirtyfez]$ mkdir stomach
[dirtyfez@liverdamage dirtyfez]$ useradd bartender
[dirtyfez@liverdamage dirtyfez]$ chown bartender stomach"

Dirty Fez bashes out some of the best command line ish I've seen in a while. The classic is rm -rf /bin/laden (Remove recursively with force, sheesh if I to explain it it's... nevermind.)

Re: last night's Elite Eight games

FARK.com: (1418887) NCAA tournament discussion thread:

robsul82 said:
"The last time I saw two collapses like that, it was 9/11!"

Hardcore man. Hardcore.

USA USA USA!

I'm not much of a jingoist, but I loves me some Team USA soccer. Hell I love international soccer in general. I obsess of the US national team, and I follow the English Premier League (go Crystal Palace... ok at least don't get relegated). Strangely I don't really follow the MLS all that much. Why watch the minor leagues? No offense to those guys. I'm glad they get paid a decent wage to play soccer, but I'm gonna spend my time following the big dogs. I should follow the MLS more. They have definetly helped Team USA, and I'd hate to see them go under; hence, I should support the MLS this year and go to a Fire game (preferably against DC United so I can see all the ado is about).

Anyway I'm watching the US vs. Mexico. The US is down 2-1 with 67:30 gone, and after that last play it should be 3-1. Go USA.

From Mark Cuban

Let the truth be told…MGM vs Grokster

First, let me define myself as a content owner.

I am not a technology owner. Although I have been involved in the technology business for more than 20 years, the software that I have written is long outdated. The infrastructure and integration processes I have designed and developed may still be in use, but I dont control them.

For the longest time, including when we started Broadcast.com, I saw the content business as a lose lose proposition. Then content went digital.

Thats when my eyes opened up to the ownership of content. When content had to be distributed in analog or a physical format for delivery, all distribution could be controlled by just a few gatekeeper companies. Music Labels and Movie Studios owned distribution. In both industries anyone outside the major companies were called independent , and for a good reason. They were on their own, on the outside looking in.

When content went digital, the floodgates opened...

When Mark Cuban talks you should probably listen. He's rich and he's "crazy". Thank you Mark Cuban. You got the goods and you're doing good with them. Thanks.

Listen up everyone, download and run Grokster (yeah I know POS, but this is important). Share the CC license of your choice and share home movies, voice recordings, digipics, anything you own. Better idea, put the CC license name in the file name. Come up with a shorthand. For instance I authorize this paragraph with Attribution 2.0 CC license. It's now shared via Grokster as bs.CC-Att.txt

Bush Breaks Silence on School Shooting

US News Article | Reuters.com

Nine dead and a teenage suicide and I call four days later? Well I'm on vacation see, and I can't be bothered. Tsunami? I'll talk about that sometime next week. A political football in the form of a vegetable? I'll take that one right a way.

I continue to be stunned at the incredible quality of our leadership.

Craig's List posting

via Wonkette:

"If, due to the absurd political state of affairs in this country, my persistent vegetative state and impending unplugging can be parlayed into some sort of political leverage, I wholly endorse using my predicament in whatever way possible for the purposes of passing legislation favorable to my general political and ethical outlook."

Now that's a living will.

Gawker Stalker: Drew Barrymore

Gawker Stalker:

"saw drew barrymore in the early afternoon of 3/21. as we passed the corner of 1st ave/st marks, I noticed yet another EV girl wearing jeans tucked into mid calf height, light tan suede boots with straps. I thought ?when is that look going to be over?!? then I looked at her face and realized she was drew barrymore. she has beautiful skin and wore a black jacket with a magenta scarf. at least it wasn?t the ubiquitous tiny fur jacket or army jacket with fur trim. didn?t notice the person she was with as our car drove by too quickly."

I admit it. I love Gawker Stalker.

Why wifi will win

Well WiMax really, but it's just trumped up WiFi. Check this out. Apple/Motorola are in a pissing match with cell carriers over the iPod phone. For about the price of an iPod, you get a phone with an iPod mini in it. ($350 for a 4GB was the rumor). Great product a no brainer, but... you guessed it, cell carriers don't want you to be able to load your music onto the phone. They want to sell you the music. I would've thought that cell phone providers would understand how fragile their market is. As quickly as they usurped the market from the old players, you'd think they'd understand how quickly they could lose it. One bad decision like this, and poof there goes the market. Apple and Motorola will find a carrier, why not Vonnage, and that should scare the pants off Verizon et al.

WHAAAA!?

Go here (PDF) Scroll down to page 8. Does the Texas Republican Party call the United States a Christian nation?

Wow.

Yahoo! News - Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Bone

Jurassic Park here we come baby.

Lambert at corrente (a liberal blog)

corrente / Leah, Lambert, Tresy, the farmer, Tom, Xan, and RDF:

"I'm coming round to the view that Reid did the right thing by giving the Republicans exactly what they wanted on the Schiavo case. Now we're seeing, up close and personal, what these people are like, and the lengths they will go to, to keep and maintain power. Reid allowed this object lesson to take place, and it seems to be working out for the best."

Good point.

Reason magazine -- July 1975

Reason magazine -- July 1975:

"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is."

--Ronald Reagan

Reagan is rolling in his grave these days.

MSNBC - A conservative crackup?

Glenn Reynolds writes:

"In their book, The Right Nation:  Conservative Power in America, authors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge predict steady growth for the conservative movement in America, unless something goes wrong to derail its trajectory.  But things can always go wrong.  How could the Republican coalition fail?  By being 'too Southern, too greedy, and too contradictory.'

Right now it's aiming at two out of three."

Buckley on Schiavo

WFB on Terri Schiavo on National Review Online

But that question was not directly accosted by the judge, who said only that Terri's rights had not been abrogated. It was unseemly for critics to compare her end with that of victims of the Nazi regime. There was never a more industrious inquiry, than in the Schiavo case, into the matter of rights formal and inchoate. It is simply wrong, whatever is felt about the eventual abandonment of her by her husband, to use the killing language. She was kept alive for fifteen years, underwent a hundred medical ministrations, all of them in service of an abstraction, which was that she wanted to stay alive. There are laws against force-feeding, and no one will know whether, if she had had the means to convey her will in the matter, she too would have said, Enough.

Sully gets it right.

www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish:

"THE HYSTERIA MOUNTS: I'm beginning to wonder if the Republican party will soon oppose the whole concept of an independent judiciary. Just read William Bennett's screed in National Review. It contains the sentence: 'It is a mistake to believe that the courts have the ultimate say as to what a constitution means.' Bennett and his co-author argue that Jeb Bush should send in state troops to reinsert the feeding tube and break the law if necessary. Screw the science. Screw the court system. Screw the law. I disagree with Jonah that this is a minor spat with no long-term consequences. We are looking directly at the real face of contemporary Republicanism. Sane, moderate, thoughtful people are watching this circus and will not soon forget it. "

Did I mention that I still love Andrew Sullivan. I'm gonna sample the (non-wingnut) true conservative anti-federalist portion of the blogsphere for some choice quotes.

Culture of Life == Universal Healthcare

Till Death—or Tom DeLay—Do Us Part - The "sanctity of marriage" is suddenly negotiable. By Dahlia Lithwick:

"Of all the ironies at the heart of the Terri Schiavo case—alleged federalists who scoff at federalism; the fact that Schiavo, who's in a persistent vegetative state, has lived off the winnings in the same kind of medical malpractice suit that Republicans in Congress seek to limit—the most astonishing is this: Congressional Republicans who have staked their careers and the last election on the 'sanctity of marriage' have turned this case into a mockery of that very institution."

Yahoo! Creative Commons search

Yahoo! Search

Creative Commons is a nonprofit group that has come up with some flexible right to copy licenses for creative work. Want people to be able to share your work, but not lose your right to copy? CC is for you. Yahoo! just started a search engine to look for CC'd work.

Cool.

Say Anything

Salon.com Politics:

"During the 2004 presidential race, Vice President Dick Cheney savaged John Kerry for suggesting that the United States should fight 'a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history.' On the stump, Cheney said that a 'sensitive war will not destroy the evil men who killed 3,000 Americans.' And at the Republican National Convention, Cheney blasted Kerry for talking about ''a more sensitive war on terror,' as though al Qaida will be impressed with our softer side.'

Could it be that John Kerry was right? A man named Dick Cheney seems to think so. In an interview in today's Washington Post, the vice president says that the United States must do a better job on the non-military aspects of its war on terror. 'If we are going to be successful long-term in the war on terror and in the broader objective of promoting freedom and democracy in that part of the world, we have to get the public diplomacy piece of it right,' Cheney says. 'Up until now, that has been a very weak part of our arsenal.'

That was exactly the point Kerry was making when Cheney mocked him. Of course, the Bush-Cheney approach to improving public diplomacy isn't exactly the one Kerry advocated: Whatever Kerry might have done as president, it's a safe bet that he wouldn't have nominated Condoleezza Rice and Karen Hughes to top posts at the State Department or Paul Wolfowitz to lead the World Bank. Cheney defends all of those moves in his interview with the Post, saying that Bush has made 'some personnel changes that he felt would strengthen our capacity as an administration to achieve our objectives.'"

Daily Drew

Stay north of the line.

Some IMAX theaters not screening volcanoes flick

Some IMAX theaters in the south are not showing a film about volcanos because it contains references to evolution. Where are these IMAX theaters? Museums of course. Jeez...

Suck it Clear Channel

Clear Channel hit with $90 mil. verdict

Utah violates the Constitution

Utah enacts net porn law | The Register

Government mandated Internet filtering for private citizens. That'll last about three seconds in court.

A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request by Steve Goodman

A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request by Steve Goodman:

By the shore's of old Lake Michigan
Where the 'hawk wind' blows so cold
An old Cub fan lay dying
In his midnight hour that tolled
Round his bed, his friends had all gathered
They knew his time was short
And on his head they put this bright blue cap
From his all-time favorite sport
He told them, 'Its late and its getting dark in here'
And I know its time to go
But before I leave the line-up
Boys, there's just one thing I'd like to know

Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy-covered burial ground
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the National League

Told his friends 'You know the law of averages says:
Anything will happen that can'
That's what it says
'But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan'
The Cubs made me a criminal
Sent me down a wayward path
They stole my youth from me
(that's the truth)
I'd forsake my teachers
To go sit in the bleachers
In flagrant truancy

and then one thing led to another
and soon I'd discovered alcohol, gambling, dope
football, hockey, lacrosse, tennis
But what do you expect,
When you raise up a young boy's hopes
And then just crush 'em like so many paper beer cups.

Year after year after year
after year, after year, after year, after year, after year
'Til those hopes are just so much popcorn
for the pigeons beneath the 'L' tracks to eat
He said, 'You know I'll never see Wrigley Field, anymore before my eternal rest
So if you have your pencils and your score cards ready,
and I'll read you my last request
He said, 'Give me a double header funeral in Wrigley Field
On some sunny weekend day (no lights)
Have the organ play the 'National Anthem'
and then a little 'na, na, na, na, hey hey, hey, Goodbye'
Make six bullpen pitchers, carry my coffin
and six ground keepers clear my path
Have the umpires bark me out at every base
In all their holy wrath
Its a beautiful day for a funeral, Hey Ernie lets play two!
Somebody go get Jack Brickhouse to come back,
and conduct just one more interview
Have the Cubbies run right out into the middle of the field,
Have Keith Moreland drop a routine fly
Give everybody two bags of peanuts and a frosty malt
And I'll be ready to die

Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville Sluggers baseball bats,
And toss my coffin in
Let my ashes blow in a beautiful snow
From the prevailing 30 mile an hour southwest wind
When my last remains go flying over the left-field wall
Will bid the bleacher bums adíeu
And I will come to my final resting place, out on Waveland Avenue

The dying man's friends told him to cut it out
They said stop it that's an awful shame
He whispered, 'Don't Cry, we'll meet by and by near the Heavenly Hall of Fame
He said, 'I've got season's tickets to watch the Angels now,
So its just what I'm going to do
He said, 'but you the living, you're stuck here with the Cubs,
So its me that feels sorry for you!'

And he said, 'Ahh Play, play that lonesome losers tune,
That's the one I like the best'
And he closed his eyes, and slipped away
What we got is the Dying Cub Fan's Last Request
And here it is

Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy-covered burial ground
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the National League

One at a time please.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australian MP loses long lost son

Remember the 27 year old adopted guy who went looking for his biological parents only to find that his bio-dad worked in the same building? He found Mom first. Mom says your Dad is... Turns out Mom, according to DNA tests, was wrong.

"Mom, why we're you such a ho in the 70's? You can't even figure out who my Dad is!"

Free multimedia hosting?

Ourmedia Homepage | Ourmedia

Ourmedia in conjuction with archive.org claims to be offering lifetime free multimedia hosting forever. I should note that the page is /.'ed all to hell right now. Not a good sign for a multimedia host.

Permanent Bases in Iraq?

Matthew Yglesias: The Elephant In The Military Base

Yglesias on the administration's (speculative) want of permanent military bases in Iraq.

/me hangs head in shame.

CBS News | Report: 108 Died In U.S. Custody | March 16, 2005 11:30:03

A quarter of them have resulted in investigations of potentially abusive troops. How many of the remaining 3/4's should have? Granted people get sick and die in prisons too, but as these are "insurgents", fighting age men not to sickly for combat, one would assume they were fairly healthy going in (though possibly injured of course).

I am not Coconut man.

this.is.anfield: I'm a bad, bad person.

Evild over at this.is.anfield and the forum365 crew are running a prank worth of lowtax and his crew.

Who looks better and who looks worse on HDTV

Why Britney Spears Hates HDTV!

Recently got time to watch a few movies on a pimped out HDTV, and I noticed the first thing mentioned on here. Cameron Diaz has clearly visible acne scars. (I was watching Charlie's Angels 2 for the Drewness of it all). I also noticed one of the people that they list as looking better, Scarlett Johansson, did in fact seem to look better in HD while I was watching Lost in Translation.

The Rude Pundit

Terry Schiavo Must Die

Wow. The Rude One is in an even ruder mood than usual. This guy cracks my shit up.

Ice Tower Collapses

News-Miner - Past News

The world's biggest waste of water has collapsed.

Daily Drew

Au natural and cute as a button. Whatever the fuck Socialitelife says.

Green Pee Blogging

I drank a metric fuck ton of dyed green beer last night, and my piss this morning was straight green. I am slightly hung over (thanks mostly to the Leprechaun Cum shots) and very very tired. Fortunately it's a half day which means I don't have any classes in the afternoon. Nice.

Pics.

Just a reminder to who gets the title roll

Wonder Woman-Greg's Preview- Yahoo! Movies

Joss Whedon has signed on to direct the new Wonder Woman picture. Just a not to whoever gets the title roll.

There can be only one.

Would Someone Tell Fox "News" That President Bush Doesn't Have a Social Security Plan Yet?

The Rude Pundit

Rude Pundit strikes again.

Slashdot | date %s Turning 1111111111

Slashdot | date %s Turning 1111111111

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:58:31 GMT Unix time hits 1111111111. WTF is Unix time you ask? Unix counts the time in seconds since 1/1/1970 1.111111111 Billion seconds since 00:00:00 19700101 as of 1:58:31 20050318

RIP Lyn Collins

The New York Times > Arts > Music > Lyn Collins, 56, Singer With James Brown, Dies

Lyn Collins was a back up singer for James Brown. She released a few 45's of her own, one of which you've heard even if you haven't heard the 45. Think (About It) has the sample that Rob Base used for "It Takes Two".

Without Delay

Petition to oust the ethics impaired Tom Delay

I want one.

RE:Generate: Blow Brick

Jesus wept. It's football people.

ESPN.com - NFL - NFL to vote to end 'unsuspecting' blind-side hits

The pussification of professional football continues.

Audblogging Antarctica

ABC Rural: Bush Telegraph: Listening to Antarctica

Daily Drew

My God! Could a person be any more beautiful?

131 Words from On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, we have no theory. I propose to begin the development of a theoretical understanding of bullshit, mainly by providing some tentative and exploratory philosophical analysis.

Backstory on the bullshit

It grows and grows

USDA.GOV TV News

The USDA actually promotes its ability to create fake news. Sheesh.

Drive by in a Jaguar?

TheDenverChannel.com - News - 3 Dead In Dallas Sunroof Drive-By Shooting

"Authorities are searching for the gunman, whose car is described as a white or silver Jaguar with fancy wheels."

Hmm.

Martin Denny RIP

stop touching my food.: martin denny, RIP

Chad Fox on the passing of Hawaiian longue greatMartin Denny. Go listen to Exotica now.

Fashionrific

We all gotta go sometime. We might as well look fabulous in the meantime.

Apple developing two-button mouse

AppleInsider | Sources: Apple developing updated AirPorts, two-button mouse

Two whole buttons on a mouse? WTF? That's mind blowing. I'm sticking with...


;)

When Clowns Attack*

CANOE -- CNEWS - Weird News: Woman sues over clown accident

I'm sensing a Fox reality show in the making.

*Stolen from Fark

A truly great day in cinematic history

Today in History - DW-World

It was 80 years ago today that boobies made their debut on film. /duffman voice/ Who wants to PARTY! /duffman voice/

_{Duff whole heartedly supports designated drivers}

It's back!

BBC - Doctor Who - Homepage

March 26th on BBC One. Watch it if you can.

Never Again

Lawrence Lessig

So I did something today for the very last time in my life. I'm publishing a comment in the Minnesota Law Review about an article by Brett Frischmann titled "An Economic Theory of Infrastructure." His is a great article; I was happy to write the comment.

But today, on the brink of publication, I had to confront the "Publication Agreement." In order to give the Minnesota Law Review my work, I have also to give them my copyright. In particular, they get the "exclusive right to authorize the publication, reproduction, and distribution" of my work. They have in turn sold that right to Lexis and Westlaw.

Never again. It has taken me too long to resolve myself about this, and it was too late in the process of this article to insist on something different. But from this moment on, I am committed to the Open Access pledge:

I will not agree to publish in any academic journal that does not permit me the freedoms of at least a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.

Lessig is a personal hero of mine. He just gets it.

Badger badger badger badger, blog blog blog.

Badger's Bastion

Buddy of this.is.anfield

Daily Drew

Federal Pound me in the ass prison for Bernie

Ebbers found guilty - Mar. 15, 2005

Next up, "Hi my name is Ken Lay." Bubba says, "Your my lay now, bitch."

Shutterbug -- gallery software for OS X

ShutterBug Overview

XtraLean software's Shutter Bug really makes great galleries. Besides d/ling the pics that took about five minutes to do. Nice stuff guys.

Time to write your representatives

Government Information in the Digital Age: The Once and Future
Federal Depository Library Program

The Government Printing Office wants to DRM information we've all ready paid for.

Money quote from the GPO: "10 years ago, GPO tried to charge for information distributed on the Internet, but it cost GPO more to collect the money than was made. So GPO made it free to the general public. This cannot continue. GPO needs to create a business model and bring revenues in the door so it doesn’t have to go to Congress all the time."

I understand that their goal is to avoid dependence on a fickle Congress for funding, but I have /no/ problem with my tax dollars being spent on keeping government transparent. (Ok well, making it more transparent again.)

More cracks in the GOP front

The New York Times > Washington > G.O.P. Rebellion Threatens to Derail Efforts to Adopt Budget

True conservatives vs. neo cons. Go go fiscally responsible Republicans.

More from Fargus

Gay Marriage

Fargus on gay marriage. Did I mention that I like this guy?

Daily Drew

Scientifically proven unfair and imbalanced.

On Fox News, No Shortage of Opinion, Study Finds (washingtonpost.com)

That's a good idea

Start Change Now -> Stop Fake News

Like rats jumping off a sinking ship

DeLay Ethics Allegations Now Cause of GOP Concern (washingtonpost.com)

Having all ready received several ethical broadsides, the Republican party may stop serving as cannon fodder for DeLay.

More on Propagandagate

t r u t h o u t - "White House News Forgeries Widespread"

"Hundreds" of fake news stories have been fobbed off on us as news. Everyone from the Administration to the local news media should be ashamed of themselves.

Steak and BJ Day

Steak and BJ Day

Feb. 14 -- Valentine's Day
Mar. 14 -- Steak and Blowjob day

Any questions?

The Flypaper Theory: Signing On. And On. And On.

More on information on Empire Coffee's encounter with alleged Bushie Brownshirts

Well with the Bush administrations dissent equals terrorism policies, it wouldn't suprise me. It also wouldn't suprise me if these are Bush supporters illegally posing as federal agents. Neo cons don't believe in free speech.

The New Doctor Who

SPOILERS!


It's back. It's real. And it's fabulous.

I just finished watching the first episode of the new Doctor Who. It's spot on perfect. They've reworked it a little. Looks like standard hour long drama format instead of serials, but still Christopher Eccelsteen is great. The new companion is teh hot, and they actually shot the scene every Doctor Who fan has always secretly wanted -- The Doctor asking you point blank and wantingly "Hey did I mention this thing can go anywhere in the universe? Wanna go?"

It's all on film. BBC, you're so cute. Special effects... about what you'd expect from Doctor Who. Bad. But cheesy good bad. See Rose's boyfriend get eaten by trash can. Watch The Doctor argue with a CGI lava pit. Yeah I said it. CGI mother fucker CGI! Lot's of it. Some of it good. All of it cheesy. This is plastic people. We going out T2 style. Blade hands and "I'll be back."

Plot: suitably ridiculous. The Autons are back. If that means anything to you, congratz you are a major fucking geek. Entire episode shot in London. Reminds me of the early third Doctor days when the TARDIS was grounded and he had to stay on earth. We got invaded weekly back then.

Eccelsteen reminds me physically of Peter Davison (5th Doctor, cricket uniform) but plays it more like a cross between Pertwee and Baker. Baker's (4th Dr. The Doctor as far as I'm concerned. One word. Scarf) goofy humor and physical mannerisms. Pertwee's (3rd Doctor, Nice suit) penchant for violence and physical action... just smack the problem around a little bit.

Billie Piper, Rose the companion, is pouty hot with a made for porn body. Thick butt and nice rack, DSL, and blonde highlights. Nice. There is sex in this Doctor Who. Rose's Mom (who almost has it going on) straight up propositions the Doctor. Rose has a boyfriend. His job is to cower like a bitch and paw at her breasts. They may drop it, but there is definite sexual tension between Rose and The Doctor. They've done that before with Tegan and Peter D (or maybe they were just fucking on the set).

She finds information on The Doctor on the Internet. Sweet. Goes to meet and Internet conspiracy buff. Funny. He's normal (and correct as it turns out). He goes out Slingblade style. There is much death.

B4B Blog

Blog for Billionaires | Bottom-Up Communication for a Top-Down World.

Billionaires for Bush have a blog now. These guys are hilarious yo.

Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.

Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.:

"Once upon a time, it was easy for the American Right to smear its opponents on the left -- they could simply equate them with the nation's communist enemies. It didn't matter that the American 'left' (Democrats) had more in common with the Right than international communism, the smear was useful.

Now, however, our international enemy -- Islamic radicalism -- is actually the polar opposite of what liberals stand for -- their actions on women rights are deplorable, they insist on theocracy, they loooveee torture and the death penalty, they demand to control the culture (TV, movies, music), they rail against rampant sexuality, they seek to spread their ideology via force, and they have a well-defined black-and-white sense of truth.

Remind you of a certain American party?

That's why hysterical assertions by the wingers that liberals hate America and want the terrorists to win are so absurd. As absurd as it would've been to claim that Reagan wanted the Communists to win the Cold War. The Taliban/Al Qaida/Hezbollah/Jihadists of the world are the exact embodiment of evil in the liberal mind. They are everything we are against, and against everything we are for.

In fact, they are exactly what we see in the Republican Party as the GOP continues to consolidate power -- creeping theocracy, moralizing, us versus them, embrace of torture, the need to constantly declare jihad on someone, hysterics over football-game nipples, control over 'decency' on the airwaves, lyrics censorship, hostility to women freedoms, curtaling of civil liberties, and so on.

So it's pretty obvious -- we don't love terrorists. We don't want them to win. For them to win would be to realize our greatest fears. The muslim terrorist is truly the anti-liberal. Like matter and anti-matter.

Republicans, on the other hand, hate the terrorists because they're Muslim. But aside from that, they've got far more in common than they'll ever admit to themselves.

And it's high time we started to make that connection more forcefully."

Damn straight Kos.

Site change

From now on the audio posts will be at http://audblogmcsey.blogspot.com/ I don't like the way multiple audblog posts crowd up my front page and push fairly new stuff off too quickly. I could of course just increase the number of posts that stay on the front page, but I also don't like pages that scroll to infinity and take forever for modemers to load.

There's a link in my blogroll.

Fargus on Bush's latest delusion

The Fargus Report: Two things

Daily Drew

Politology: Bankruptcy Protest: A Coalition

Politology: Bankruptcy Protest: A Coalition

Join this petition please.

Watch this.

Bad picture of the watch referenced.

Daily Drew

Sweet.

Slashdot | Terra Soft Offers Linux-booting iPods, FW Drives

The Fargus Report: Lebanon

The Fargus Report: Lebanon

My man Fargus covers the social security debate well and I hope he continues to write about Lebanon

Interesting.

Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction

Go get those bigots!

Lawsuit of Rick Raymen and Steve Hansen versus USA Next and Mark Montini International

USA Next, creators of that hateful anti-AARP ad, are getting their asses for libel and right to copy infringement. Nice to see right to copy used by the little guy (who it was originally intended for) for once.

Go get those bigots!

Lawsuit of Rick Raymen and Steve Hansen versus USA Next and Mark Montini International

USA Next, creators of that hateful anti-AARP ad, are getting their asses for libel and right to copy infringement. Nice to see right to copy used by the little guy (who it was originally intended for) for once.

Why if everyone agrees...

Instapundit.com -

BANKRUPTCY "REFORM:" I'm deeply skeptical of the bankruptcy bill in front of Congress now, and this report on credit-card industry practices goes a long way toward explaining why. Credit extended to people who can't handle it, absurd hidden fees, high interest rates, etc.: There's a lot of scamming here. The argument, of course, is that people who sign up for credit card accounts ought to know what they're getting into. But shouldn't the companies that extend credit to people who obviously can't handle it be held to the same standard?

That the current bankruptcy reform bill is odious is it gonna pass? The entire blogsphere from the creepy freepis to the atrios lefties (that'd be me) agree that this thing is a give away to the credit card industry. I've agreed with Instapundit about once in my life, but he's right on on this one.

Interesting

THE BRAD BLOG: "CLINT CURTIS INVESTIGATOR'S 'SUICIDE' CASE REOPENED BY GEORGIA POLICE!"

This goes back to the sworn affadavit given by Clint Curtis charging that high ranking Florida officials contracted him to make "vote flipping" software for evoting machines.

Creative ways to waste water.

04-05 Ice Wall 1

Move to Alaska and run your sprinkler all winter. Make ginormus ice sculpture.

Why didn't I think of this.

My Date With Drew - 30 days - $1,100 - 1 date

You're not stalking if you've got a video camera:)

I must see this.

Dream date makes for unusual flick

At some point in our lives, we all dream of dating a movie star. Most of us are content with keeping these fantasies to ourselves - but not Brian Herzlinger.

The Cherokee High School grad made it his mission to land a date with his celebrity crush since second grade, Drew Barrymore. Armed with $1,100 and a video camera that needed to be returned before the 30-day exchange policy expired, Herzlinger and his friends managed to put together an award-winning documentary, My Date with Drew.

See for yourself whether Herzlinger makes his life's dream a reality at a screening of the film at 2 p.m. Sunday at the AMC Marlton 8 Theatre, 800 N. Route 73, Marlton - the very theater that employed Herzlinger in the early '90s. After the private viewing, join some of the film participants at a reception at the Regency Palace, 555 Fellowship Road, Mount Laurel.

Tickets are $125 and the reception includes hors d'oeuvres, light buffet supper and cash bar. Proceeds benefit the Alzheimer's Association Delaware Valley Chapter, on behalf of the Bam Charitable Foundation Inc. RSVP to Vincent D'Elia at (856) 797-9777.

Great Political Speeches

The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln:

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Think about that in the terms of what they were standing on. Just over five months earlier 50,000 soldiers lay on that field of battle dead or wounded. 30% of those who participated were killed or injured. Now go back and read that again without tearing up. Yeah I didn't think you could. I sure as hell can't.

Daily Drew

Huge online gallery from NYC Public Library

Press Information | NYPL Digital Gallery Launches

It was supposed to go live today, but it got /.'ed out of existence with a quickness. They're upgrading servers now;)

Best take I've seen on Thompson's "suicide"

Fafblog! the whole worlds only source for Fafblog.:

"HUNTER THOMPSON IS NOT DEAD.

Don't believe their filthy lies. Giblets saw the Good Doctor with his own two eyes just a few hours ago, heading north in the White Whale. He said he was headed up to heaven to shoot God. 'The great bastard's in season and it's long overdue,' the Godfather of Gonzo said as he dusted off his elephant gun. 'I have full reason to believe they will award me both the head and the tail. Expect me back by the apocalypse.' Good hunting, Doctor Thompson. You'll be missed.

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Fake tit on ebay and the A-Team on Craiglist

Stuffo "Finding The A-team: A Stuffo Experiment"

Oh yeah... the fake tit for sale.

Possibly the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

SkyBelts Airplane Seatbelt Belt Buckle Belts

Words you can't put on a jersey from NFL.com

"Gay" a Naughty Word for NFL Shop -- Outsports.com:

Most of them are fairly obvious like PORNKING and REAR ENTRY, but then we come to the one man listed "RAE CARRUTH" cannot be put on a jersey.

I call shenanigans

Student Arrested For Terroristic Threatening Says Incident A Misunderstanding

Student writes a story depicting his high school overrun by zombies. Student, 18, gets arrested and charged with a felony. Student wrote material /at home/.

"It didn't mention nobody who lives in Clark County, didn't mention (George Rogers Clark High School), didn't mention no principal or cops, nothing,"
said William Poole. "Half the people at high school know me. They know I'm not that stupid, that crazy."