I don’t like Edwards’s idea that meanness should be a deiciding factor in the election of the President of the United States.
Jerk.
Entries from December 2007
Anyone Can Be A Jerk
December 31, 2007
Putin Watch: GPS Dog Collars
December 29, 2007
Vlad’s dog collar.
http://www.gpsdaily.com/reports/Putin_wants_satnav_collar_for_dog_agency_999.html
Too bad it is based on the GLONASS constellation-ski.
Die Terminplanung!
December 29, 2007
…er…I mean get to your scheduling! Class is starting soon and as much as many of us might not want to think about it - you gotta register for your classes!
Important dates:
Classes begin - January 7th
MLK Day - January 21st
UND Academic Calendar
Words from a soldier [Orson Scott Card]
December 25, 2007
But we are already at the point here that, if my commander or I mention a name of a known “badguy” who has yet to flee the area, the response is often that selfsame badguy, bound and gagged, at our front gate in the morning, with a line of witnesses behind him, ready […]
Happy Federally Recognized Omnibus holiday kids!
December 25, 2007
Every man, woman, and child…
December 23, 2007
The FBI is going forward with plans to database the fingerprints, faces, irises, and even gait style.
Of course this is no cause for alarm. Such things are of course right for a government to have, and will not be abused. [/sarcasm]
Other reading:
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/31203res20070807.html
Putin, Sensei!
December 21, 2007
Just a small side note: I would totally buy Vladimir Putin’s martial arts DVD.
No lie.
Munch on This.
December 19, 2007
I was re-reading Flags of our Fathers last week. I read it a year ago after my high school band teacher reccomended it (and cried like a girl though most of it), and after watching the film, thought it was high time I read it again. For any of you who have not read it, […]
A Legitimate Question, At Least.
December 17, 2007
If he stepped down, would we have to thank him?
It’s Not Like We’d Understand You, Anyway.
December 15, 2007
I’m sure we’ve all heard of the Geno’s Steaks owner Joe Vento’s English-only policy in his restaraunt. I think it’s a great idea. It’s his business, after all.
But that’s beyond the point.
How many languages do his waiters speak well enough to actually converse? If I waltzed in and ordered in Italian or Russian or Spanish […]
Pity Letters Don’t Matter. Verdicts Do.
December 14, 2007
The day a pity letter from a criminal’s mother and a poorly-punctuated (did he ever go to college?) five-page note for leniency ever change a judge’s ruling, I’m moving to somewhere with a more rigid and honorable justice system.
Come to think of it, why should the notion of begging even cross the minds of colleagues? If […]
Thank God for Rather Large Mercies
December 3, 2007
Venezuela has rejected Hugo Chavez’s “Socialist revolution.” The proposed constitutional reforms, which would have radically increased his ‘presidential power’ by erasing term limits (President For Life Hugo Chavez?) and unhinging the Central Bank, were defeated by Venezuelan good sense.
Celebrate the victory by reading it here.
In Defense of NASA
December 2, 2007
Throughout it’s history NASA has exceeded every mandate and goal set: NASA put the first American in space, landed a dozen men on the moon, and has since become a catalyst for our age of information and technology. Recognizing the history of exceptionalism embodied at NASA, President Bush called […]
My South American Soap Opera
December 1, 2007
I’m simply writing here this evening to wish the best of luck to Venezuelan “president” Hugo Chavez. BBC News says you’re facing your “toughest challenge in years,” and seeing as every day in your life seems to be a life-or-death struggle against the Great Satan of the North, this has got to be big. I know […]
