Unbelievable, but apparently true.Someone is probably going to jump flunky on me for posting this though, likely tell me something like "Bush was there to boost patients's morale" or somethi...
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Gilligan has left the island. Maynard G. Krebs has banged his bongos for the last time.
Just hitting wires that Bob Denver - forever stranded with the rest of the Minnow crew on Gilligan's Island, not to mention wondering if he should "Work?" as beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis - has died here in North Carolina.Nothing else to say, 'cept another legend has left us. Say hello to the Skipper and Thurston Howell III up there, little b...
Monday, September 05, 2005
So, ummm... you saying the hurricane was GOOD for some people?!
Barbara Bush said this today at the Astrodome, no joke:"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this... this is working very well for them."Now, what kind of person is it that would divy-up the victims of something so impartial into either "privileged" or "underprivileged"?I'm almost reminded of the "steerage" passengers aboard the Titan...
Europeans building Doctor Octopus fusion machine
Physicsweb.org has the scoop on some scientists re-enacting the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster...Europe plans laser-fusion facility2 September 2005Laser physicists in Europe have put forward plans to build a £500m facility to study a new approach to laser fusion. A panel of scientists from seven European Union countries believes that a "fast ignition" laser facility could...
Together from across a century...
105 year-old Nita LaGarde holds hands with Tanisha Blevin, the 5-year old granddaughter of LaGarde's nurse. LaGarde, Blevin and some others spent two days trapped in the attic of a house amid the flood waters in New Orleans, before rescuers were able to get to them. LaGarde and Blevin then spent four days at the Convention Center before they were finally evacuated.This now...
Hoping CBS doesn't turn this into "Survivor: New Orleans"
Another uplifting story: holdouts in New Orleans's French Quarter banded together into "tribes" to help each other out.I think in years to come, what's happened in the Big Easy because of Katrina is going to be a hotly-discussed topic in sociology circles. This has brought out the worst in some people, and the very best in others. Why that happened is going to be well debated for a long ti...
About Bush and me...
I feel the need to clarify something that really can't be emphasized enough:I do not hate George W. Bush.I do hate the things he is doing to this country.F'rinstance, he is committing treason by letting untold millions of illegal immigrants flood across the border from Mexico. Illegal immigrants and God only knows who else: it's a would-be terrorist's dream come true.He lied us into a war with Iraq. The reasons for this war have never been consistent....
By any other name, Divx still sux (Blu-Ray news)
No not DivX the AVI video codec, which I like a lot. I mean Divx: that bastardized DVD format that was sold at Circuit City several years ago, just when DVD was getting to be popular.Good lord those were some of the most shameless TV commercials ever made. I actually felt sorry for that poor guy who was being paid to smile into the camera as he explained how Divx players "play both DVD and Divx titles". The really scary thing is that some studios...
Sunday, September 04, 2005
The Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon is on
It's a little different this year: it's raising money for both the Muscular Dystrophy Association and for the Hurricane Katrina victims. Jerry Lewis is lookin' good: a few years ago he didn't look so hot but he's buff enough now to do the Nutty Professor again it seems. And darn, Ed McMahon looks pretty good too! Anyway see if it's on locally and if it's not head over to...
Goofs and all, I like this new show Rome on HBO
It holds nothing back in showing how colorful, brutal, lecherous and oratorical those wacky Romans really were. Tonight's was the second episode and it was decidedly better than the first one. By the end of the hour I just knew where this chapter of the story was gonna end, on the other side of a certain lil' creek on the northern border with Italy. Definitely recommended but I did catch something that, maybe it's just the historian in me but...
Happy 75th Anniversary to Dagwood and Blondie!
The actual 75th won't come until later this week but today is the "official" celebration of Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead's 75th anniversary since they first appeared in the comics! I'd thought of marking the occassion by making a real Dagwood Bumstead sandwich but I gave up after seeing all the ingredients that go into it. Just as well: I don't like mayo anyway. May try...
We could kiss Saudi goodbye: VERY cool news on the fuel front
The boys at Shell R&D have been busy: "a billion barrels a square mile" would make the United States energy independent until the end of time. From Rocky Mountain News via Scripps:...Since 1981, Shell researchers at the company's division of "unconventional resources" have been spending their own money trying to figure out how to get usable energy out of oil shale. Judging by the presentation the Rocky Mountain News heard this week, they think...
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Chief Justice Rehnquist has died
I saw him preside over a Supreme Court case in January 1997. I heard from a lot of people who worked there that he was a really nice guy. A real gentleman through and through.The bad news just keeps coming lately, it seems. A good man is gone.I hope people are mindful about that.This sounds horrible, but I'm wondering how long it will be before "the ghouls" come out relishing the now-vacant Supreme Court seat.EDIT 11:22 PM EST: Well, that didn't...
"Plan? You mean there was a PLAN?!"
City of New Orleans Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan pertaining to hurricanes.I'm wondering how much of this was actually followed-through ...
So Bush is selling crude oil from the strategic reserve...
...to supposedly help with the fuel shortage.Dumb, dumb, dumb.The problem is not so much supply right now as it is a refining problem. Simply putting more crude out there on the market is not going to have any significant effect on gasoline prices.I've no idea why he would do such a thing, but there it is, defying all wisdom regarding petroleum economi...
The New Orleans situation as a model of American government
That's practically what's being argued at Enemy Of The State blog right now. Is what's going on truly "Anarchy in New Orleans??" Here's a sample:Friends of mine have come up to me with almost gleeful self-righteousness and proclaimed,"SEE! SEE! This is why Anarchy can't work!"Ironically what is going on in New Orleans (specifically the looting of private property) resembles the behavior of Government and not philosophical Anarchism.Philosophical...
KWerky Productions website is down at the moment
Ed asked me to make a note of this a few days ago and it somehow got lost in the jumble of things. The KWerky Productions website (including the Forcery website) is currently down because of a physical relocation of the server. It should be back up and running fairly soon though. This is happening because of a development that is seeing KWerky Productions branch out a bit in terms of what we can and want to do. More on that later. In the meantime...
