After reading about Jennifer's ambition to "touch every U.S. citizen," I was randomly poking around the Department of Homeland Security website when I stumbled on this horrifying headline: Secretary Napolitano Announces Stop.Think.Connect. Campaign Partnership with D.A.R.E. America Oh God. The DHS and D.A.R.E. That's a partnership forged in the pit of hell. I can smell … [Read more...] about Stop.Think.Fail.
Mysteries of Comcast
So last night around 2am I sat down at my computer and...no internet. Called Comcast and accepted the automated system's offer to reset my modem. When that didn't work, I asked for a human being. The technician told me there was an outage in the area, but they couldn't give me anymore information, and they couldn't take a trouble ticket because their system was down … [Read more...] about Mysteries of Comcast
Clowns Of the Left, Jokers Of the Right
Anders Behring Breivik's terrorist attacks in Norway are bringing out the idiots. For example, from the (more-or-less) right, there's Cheradenine Zakalwe at Islam Versus Europe in a post titled "Why the Left Shouldn't Gloat about Anders Breivik": Reading through Anders Behring Breivik's comments on the document.no website, it's clear that he was on the verge of giving up on … [Read more...] about Clowns Of the Left, Jokers Of the Right
More Pictures of Hotch
[Update: We renamed this cat "Beezle" (includes video of him playing).]I was going to blog about the President's speech, but look! Kitty pictures.HotchTaking all these pictures of Hotch is proving to be more difficult than I expected. For one thing, the color balance is all over the place. The room is actually lit with incandescent light, which gives everything a … [Read more...] about More Pictures of Hotch
TOS OMG
Remember Lori Drew? She's the woman who used MySpace to play a very unkind trick on a teenage girl named Megan Meier, who killed herself. Prosecutors in Missouri, where Drew and Meier both lived, didn't prosecute her for this, probably because saying mean things to little girls isn't a criminal act. That didn't stop grandstanding U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien from stepping … [Read more...] about TOS OMG