BlogBites

April 5th, 2006

Delay is going to file ethics charges against someone else? Wow, now that takes cojones. Tom Delay to File Ethics Charges Against McKinney  

They say that condoms can be made available as a last resort. But fuck that. Condoms should be flowing like rivers, falling from the skies like rain, in every country where AIDS is wreaking havoc upon its population. Shakespeare’s Sister  

…it is one of the great primal fears of some male (and female) wingnuts: that women might actually rear up on their hindlegs and give speeches and stuff, rather than vacuum and change dust ruffles. ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES  

Oh sure, today you may think it’s harmless for gays and lesbians to get married, but take away the precious protection of state-sponsored homophobia and tomorrow you’ll have men marrying machines, unhinged threeways between two lesbians and a minidisc player, crowds of deranged mechanophiliacs humping household appliances in an orgy of animatronic man-on-android action! Fafblog! the whole worlds only source for Fafblog.  

I’m not saying that we need to preserve the snail darter because it is a valuable organism in and of itself, but because we are screwing over ourselves when we smash and poison our environment to such a degree that as innocuous a creature as a small fish is unable to survive. I’m being greedy, not altruistic. Pharyngula: Suicide is not the highest form of self-interest  

April 4th, 2006

When it comes to evidence disposal, you need a container that’s long enough to handle the entire cadaver. The Dilbert Blog: A Moving Experience  

The idea, it seems, is that by buying these sites, the purchasers have bought themselves a huge captive audience that they can then advertise to. This is nonsense. Schrodinger’s Audience  

What might one do with a giant tank of liquid nitrogen? Make liquid nitrogen ice cream, of course. 101 Cookbooks - Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream  

[The meme] has the same intellectual resonance as doing The Wave at an event. You are embarrased if you do it sober, beligerant to non wavers if you do it drunk. Memes - Doing the Wave in the Blogosphere - Blog Maverick - www.blogmaverick.com _  

Delay is probably in deep legal trouble. But he’s definitely scared to face the voters without a guaranteed win. MyDD :: Tom Delay: Scared to Face the Voters