Pride in the name of what?

[kenfrequed]

I tire of the relentless badgering by the punditoids about the evils of self esteem and how terrible it is that we give 29th place ribbons to 3rd graders for participating in annual field day. They bitch and moan and whine and whimper about the embrace of mediocrity and the lack of excellence. They often claim to admire “winners over whiners.” But

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[yoric77]

My Little Brother is currently in Iraq. It appears he believes in "the cause".

I have not yet found how to talk to him and let him know how it boggles me that he could think this to be a good idea, without putting a divide the length of the Grand canyon between us.

[zeroisanumber]

You know, it's perfectly possible to change the display on those giant roadside electronic billboards by simply cutting through the lock with bolt cutters and changing the .jpg file at the control station.

Don't know who would want to do such a thing or why, but with the RNC coming to town I wouldn't be surprised if some lefty hacker got it into his head to give it a go.

Don't know why I brought this up. Just thought it was an interesting topic of conversation.

[bcwalker]

Indeed. Very interesting.

Hmm

[zeroisanumber]

Very interesting... I wonder who else might be interested in that...I think I might have accidentally mentioned it to someone or another after reading it.