   | By now, you have undoubtedly heard about the now-resolved hostage situation at the Discovery Network HQ, summed up by Sarah:
… [...] The comment thread (to which I would link directly, if Echo was not a piece of gos-se) at this post over at Kevin’s is so completely full of stupidity and fail, I am genuinely surprised that the internet does not somehow start to collapse in on itself around… [...] How do you know when your leadership skills are insufficient for the task at hand? When your employees – the people who literally depend on you for their future paychecks – sell you down the river:
… [...] Want to incontrovertibly prove to the world that you are nothing more than a self-absorbed, immature jackass looking to gin up as much publicity for yourself and your webpage as is humanly possible without any regard, whatsoever, for the significant consequences of your actions? Simple: try to… [...] Remember all of the various air-headed morons screaming and flailing about how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was going to be completely and utterly disastrous, and totally unrecoverable, and likely to destroy the Gulf of Mexico for generations to come, and all your fault because you use gasoline… [...] I really, really hope that the disgusting, decidedly non-Christian Westboro Baptist Church bit off far more than they could chew by deciding to protest at Comic-Con, but I already know that is not the case. For every rabble-rousing, nut-job on the sidewalk protesting, there are 10 scumsucking lawyers… [...] On this day, which started out overcast and damp, and seems to be wrapping up relatively nicely, I would like to solemnly, but enthusiastically, raise my middle finger to two separate individuals. First, Michael Yon, you are a scumbag of the lowest order. I will be perfectly… [...] Really, Oleg could not have chosen a better image for the Fourth of July:
On a similar note, did anyone see a somewhat interesting difference between how the majority of pro-rights / conservative / right-wing / libertarian / etc. weblogs observed the Fourth,… [...] I found out this morning that noted Kleagle, Exalted Cyclops, and Democratic Senator Robert Byrd died earlier today. As I mentioned to Better Half, this ranks slightly lower on my “Give-a-Gos-Se Meter” than a noted drunkard, womanizer, and reckless driver who also happened… [...] I am just not feeling any intensive weblogging today, so I will instead leave you with two quotes from wildly disparate sources. First, actor Jon Voight:
… [...] Yesterday, I found out that offers of assistance from the Dutch government regarding our oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico were turned down. Why? Because, their method of removing copious quantities of oil from the water was not quite good enough:
… [...] Imagine that you are the ruler of a country – this should not be hard for the megalomaniacs in my readership. Imagine that country is bordered by a few other countries, and that those borders are generally unregulated… there are, of course, designated border-crossings, with gates and fences and all… [...] On the one hand, courtesy of John Lott, we find that Our Glorious President’s ratings in handling the Gulf oil spill are worse than President Bush’s handling of Katrina:
… [...] By way of USCitizen at Traction Control (a stand-up guy if there ever was one, and one with a fair amount of firepower for sale), we learn that some particularly spineless, ignorant, ingrates were able to convince the town of Warren,… [...] Speaking as someone who used to have something of a propensity for buying all manner of random-assed toys before doing the appropriate research on them, I can honestly say that buyer’s remorse really does suck, and I really have experienced it on more than a few occasions. Based on that… [...] So, can I say, “I told you so,” now?
… [...] Facebook sucks ten different ways. Facebook sucks another six ways. The good news? There may be an alternative in the future, complete with open source code, GPG encryption, distributed software you can host for… [...] Unless you have been living under a rock these past few years, you would be aware of the intentionally-offensive, unquestionably childish term that supposedy “liberals”/progressives have been using to describe Tea Party members and attendees – a term with a pre-existing defintion describing a particularly crude, but not necessarily sexual,… [...] This is why I support Arizona’s attempts to control illegal immigration:
Yes, that sign reads:
… [...]
Happy May Day, bastard – I hear Hell throws quite the party for scumbag mass-muderers like you. (Thanks to Free in Idaho for the reminder.) [...] Now this is interesting (I promise). Over the past… while… governments around the world (but specifically in Europe) have been doing their damnest to turn their populations into government-dependent sheep: telling them not to fight back, suggesting that the people give the criminals what they want, disarming the populaces,… [...] One day, assuming you can subvert your own integrity and ethics far enough to manage it, you too might grow up to be sufficiently skilled at lying like a gorramed rug that people will pay you enough money to spread your false science, laughable… [...] A whole lot of bytes have been slaughtered to make noise over Arizona’s new illegal immigration bill, SB 1070. By and large, my position on the bill is somewhat similar to Robb’s (they are here illegally – hence the term “illegal alien” – where is the… [...] Now that Facebook has gotten oh-so-very helpful and started spreading your personal information around the cortex without even so much as a by-your-leave, it might be useful to know what, exactly, it is spreading. And this page will help you… [...] How is it that the backwater, unedcuated, redneck, cousin-humping, Appalachian-hillbilly, fly-over, west-bumfrack state I live in can manage to update the address on my driver’s license and handgun carry permit in five minutes on the internet, while the Great and Glorious Federal Government makes me request a hardcopy form that… [...] Not only no, but hell no:
… [...] Some days, I wonder if the world is simply stress-testing my cardiovascular system for future idiocy. Then the future idiocy arrives, and I know that no amounts of preparation could have readied my body for the outrage:
… [...] So, how did it feel to be bent over and financially violated this year, with the full knowledge that those in positions to do so will be doing their absolute best to spread your hard-earned money around, support failing industries that are not failing due to financial problems, and give… [...] If this news had been released four days before, I would have sincerely thought it was a genuine April Fool’s prank. As it is, I can only shake my head at the country we are rapidly being forced to become:
… [...] Well, they say pictures are worth a thousand words, so to save myself the effort of typing, here are some good ones. Courtesy of A Trainwreck in Maxwell, we have this wonderful graphic comparing the popularity ratings of the current and previous Presidents:
You have… [...] Aside from the belief that this should be spread far and wide, I will present this without comment:
… [...] Today’s honor goes out to commenter Britt at The Smallest Minority for this particularly insightful post:
… [...] “Warmest winter in recorded history” my hairy white ass. [...] And here is your daily dose of depression:
Trust me – click on the image and read the full explanation… (Courtesy of Les Jones and Nathan’s Economic Edge.) [...] Better Half: Can’t they look out the windows and see people don’t want this??
Me: That would require them to care. (Image shamelessly borrowed from the Knoxville News Sentinel, who borrowed it from the AP.) [...] A little over a year ago, I wrote:
… [...] Today’s quote of the day comes from pdb by way of this comment he left at Marko’s place:
… [...] I had a couple of skeletons of posts rattling around in my head that I was considering fleshing out and posting today, but then I stumbled across this news report and lost all interest whatsoever. Robb and Jay G cover the situation far more eloquently… [...] The allegations are flying fast and furious around Representative Massa, but, gorram, he paints a horrific picture:
… [...] We received a letter at our house yesterday indicating that we would be receiving our Census questionnaire packet within the next week or so. It was addressed to “The Residents of… [insert address]“, so that does not really bother me. What does bother me is that our federal government,… [...] Is anyone else not surprised at how the Knoxville branch of the AFL-CIO occupies the same building as the Knoxville branch of the Democratic Party? Even better, the former occupies the upper floors of the building, while the latter occupies the basement. Coincidence is God’s way of remaining… [...] Very few “progressives”/”liberals” bother to trouble themselves with those annoying little things known as “facts”, but even fewer still will actually have the backbone to admit to this shortcoming in public. To his credit, Matthew Cardinale, editor of the completely-unknown-to-me “Atlanta Progressive News”, somehow managed to… [...]  |    |
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