August 23rd, 2004

Naked plastic pigs. For real. aldahlia  

If freedom is to defeat terror, it must demonstrate its strengthativity over evil. Fafblog!  

“But what is the point of bakin a Jesus if the priest we get cannot turn him into a real Jesus?” says Giblets. “We will just have a huge, useless, tasty, fresh, bready Jesus sittin in our oven!” Fafblog!  

We are at a big disadvantage in this game because we have at least a modicum of decency and while I agree that we very likely are going to have to give that up, I don’t think it’s a failure of nerve to at least have tried to keep our political system from totally turning into a sewer. Hullabaloo  

I don’t know what’s worse: the fact that someone turned a plastic cow into a computer or that there are Wal-Marts in Germany. Gizmodo  

What a sad, sad moment in the life of Bob Dole, mocking a wounded soldier. Eschaton  

A few minutes ago, a police officer passed the bench where I was sitting outside the [edit: Nantucket] Athenaeum, enjoying the mild temperature and the wifi signal, and he said, “Sir, you can’t use the Internet outside the library.” AKMA’s Random Thoughts  

Apparently you can roll [liguid nitrogen] around in your mouth as an impressive stunt, but unfortunately the author, though he’d done that, had thought you could also swallow it. Turns out you can’t. bastardsword  

The leadership of the Republican party boarded a rocketship to Dingusville and went blasting off, while the majority seem to be jogging along behind them, wishing they could be going over the cliff as quickly, and I simply don’t comprehend the phenomenon. Pharyngula  

Buttpaste.Com: “It’s not just for diaper rash anymore!” Scripting News  

Those crazy Russians. First they go and end the cold war, then they hold a rafting tournament where the rafts must be inflatable sex dolls. The SaltwaterPizza Blog  

Republicans said they would seek to turn any disruptions to their advantage, by portraying protests by even independent activists as Democratic-sanctioned displays of disrespect for a sitting president. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire