BlogBites

September 30th, 2005

I am, as they say, back. Ben Hammersley  

To which one can only say, piffle. Crooked Timber  

September 28th, 2005

“The danger sign in America is not a hot national debate over the war in Iraq and its course, but precisely the absence of such a debate - which, as former Senator Gary Hart has pointed out, is largely due to a lack of courage on the part of the Democrats.” James Wolcott  

The Bush administration not only refused to heed Army Corps of Engineers warnings about the danger of cutting funding to the New Orleans levees; they fired Army Corps of Engineers head (and former Republican Congressman) Mike Parker mere days after Parker himself testified to Congress about those dangers. Daily Kos  

Buddhism seems like a personal journey; one where there are people to help you along but none to whom you can relinquish the responsibility for success or failure. Odd Thoughts  

For Thine is the irreducible complexity,
And the wiggly parts of bacterial bottoms,
And the inapplicable theorems,
Now and forever. The Panda’s Thumb  

September 27th, 2005

I love our new military argot. It brings a little extra enjoyment to those of us who fight the War for Iraqi Freedom with a mouse and a cheeto-stained keyboard. Jesus’ General  

It’s because the wacky God of fundamentalists is as inconsistent and incomprehensible as a pet ferret that’s gotten into your meth stash. The Rude Pundit  

Are they ignorant of the fact that satisfying customers at a lower cost is actually what running a business is? The Age of Unreason  

September 25th, 2005

If the NYT’s columnists and their “distinctive voices” fall over in the TimesSelect forest and nobody hears them, do they make a noise? Online News Squared (via The Doc Searls Weblog)  

September 23rd, 2005

Hello Houston? We have a problem. The Doc Searls Weblog  

September 22nd, 2005

I looked down at my hands, yearning for the feel of warm, worn, wooden spokes under my hands and the the salty tang of the sea in my nostrils, as I commuted to work. Halfbakery  

That whole family is fucking insane. Sister Novena’s PortaPulpit  

September 20th, 2005

After all, if we had wanted to adopt a system of government where people with lifetime appointments decide all controversies according to what they believe is right, we would never have rebelled against the monarchy. Spartacus  

September 19th, 2005

When we criticize you, it’s because we care. Not about you, mind, but we do care about something. Pandagon