BlogBites

June 6th, 2005

What bureaucracies cannot abide is an individuality that stands apart and even above the institution. James Wolcott  

I want you all to know I’ve got the Bible sandwiched between a copy of Jacoby’s Freethinkers and Darwin’s Origin. I’m waiting for the Stockholm Effect to kick in. Pharyngula  

June 5th, 2005

One has to cringe at the thought, but I suppose I can sympathize–if I had a pair of penises the size of volleyballs and weighing 10 pounds each attached to my cheeks, I might want to get rid of one, too. Pharyngula  

June 4th, 2005

Because, you see, if we don’t curtail our own freedoms the terrorists have won and if the terrorists win we won’t have freedom, so it’s better to give them up voluntarily to the white guys then have them wrenched from us by swarthy people and either way we’re going to lose them because freedom is so pre-9/11. ??TBogg??  

Wyatt Earp is best known for surviving the shootout at the O.K. Corral when Captain Kirk decided to stop beating the hell out of him. This is not your practice blog  

June 3rd, 2005

Yesterday my hands were freezing cold so Ben offered to sit on them for me. Now, that’s love and romance, my friends. Petullant  

June 2nd, 2005

While reasonable people go about their day without caring much about other people?s sex lives, the certifiable lunatics who run the religious right have fixated on the sexual orientation of a puppet and a cartoon character. 1115.org  

As the saying goes, in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king, and economically speaking the USA is very much the cyclops on the throne, squinting out at the world through his one good peeper. Whiskey Bar  

It was a symbolic act of preparation for the opening of the Kingdom of Heaven, not Jesus taking a cup of change from a hobo and buying Nazarene Twizzlers with it. Pandagon (via Scott Chacon)  

How many times (particularly when it comes to the drug war) have I thought: “Well, certainly they wouldn’t pass a bill that stupid/horrible/outrageous,” only to be proven completely wrong. Drug WarRant  

Your blog is so ugly Matt Drudge sent you an e-mail offering to help you redesign it — so it’s more aesthetically pleasing.” The Minor Fall, The Major Lift  

June 1st, 2005

Reality? It’s no longer a limitation. BTC News (via Brad DeLong’s Semi-Daily Journal)  

A search engine aimed at the hip-hop market, called “Ax Jeeves”. lindsayism.com  

So when a former Marine claims that, since his time in the corp, he’s been in communication with an angelic host of flying saucers, has demonstrated that he can deliver something for the camera, and has heard a voice in his head telling him now’s the time, I think it’s prudent that we pay attention. Rigorous Intuition  

The key to political success, Matt reminded me, is to show up at local party meetings and get involved enough to become part of the political process rather than simply being what I’ve been: a smart-ass commentator in a blogosphere that no one in local politics knows how to spell, much less attend to. Escapable Logic