BlogBites

September 19th, 2005

You may be talking like a pirate, but I have an actual parrot on my shoulder. YARR! redsouffle  

September 16th, 2005

Monday I went to a friend’s house plopped a wad of cash down on the counter and left with seventeen inches of pure happiness. Red Monkey  

How does one teach a sixth grade civics class in this country now with a straight face? Kung Fu Monkey  

Damn if we were just republicans, we could stick our sticky fingers into the till and be rejoicing over the hurricane gift that God just gave us. Dharma Bums  

September 15th, 2005

I have this thing with skulls, bones, hearts etcetera lately? I promise, in the end it?ll all come together and seem logical, I promise geektechnique.org  

Do professional chess players yell “Checkmate” when they reach climax? The Weblog  

The odds are that they’ve given up trying to derail Roberts and are simply using the televised hearings to make campaign speeches designed to appeal to the activists paying attention. ProfessorBainbridge.com  

September 14th, 2005

Hucksters of all stripes know it sounds smooth to “take responsibility” by uttering the words. TPMCafe  

September 13th, 2005

On September 13, New York will have a choice — do they want to elect a Public Advocate who favors the status quo — or do they want to elect a Public Advocate who really gets it? Corante  

My ambition in life, at the moment, is to manage, just once, to exaggerate the depths to which this country will sink, but once again, I failed miserably. Body and Soul  

I’m just an amateur scarabologist, but I’m reasonably sure that when green junebugs swarm without explanation, it doesn’t portend shit. I Blame The Patriarchy  

September 11th, 2005

And then it dawned upon me. In the same way that VisiCalc was the so-called “killer app” that heralded the concept of a spreadsheet and ignited the business computing boom, I figure that another software system that is waiting to be launched as another “killer app” would be called Scapegoat 1.0. […] Its purpose would be to be shift the blame away from yourself in any political fallout situation to another targeted faction with point-and-click ease. Maeda’s SIMPLICITY  

When political whores take the long view, you know they’re running scared. James Wolcott  

September 10th, 2005

Step right up and watch how it’s done—baldly and without any shame. See your president, with the stroke of a pen, strip construction workers of the federal wage guarantees that have helped to lift them out of poverty in one of the most poverty-stricken regions of the country. TPMCafe  

September 9th, 2005

The incompetence and the ludicrous prioritization will forever be symbolized by one gaffe by of the head of what is ironically called “The Department of Homeland Security”: “Louisiana is a city…” Bloggermann