"And when you look at that [American] flag and then you tell me that right now people in this country are saying it's OK to desecrate that flag and to burn it and to not pay respect to it - is that important to our values as a people when we've got 130,000 people fighting for our freedom and liberty today? That is important."-- Sen. Bill Frist (R- ( Read more... )

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Are you ready for every web address you visit, every Google search you do, every email header you send to be stored in a database for two years? You may not have a choice if the Attorney General gets his way ( Read more... )

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Sweet Jebus! I was just at a fancy Turkish jewlery and accessories shop. I was looking over a small table that had what looked like placemats shaped like ornate fancy rugs. They were maybe about 24" x 12". Placemats ( Read more... )

We all love Stephen Colbert after the White House Correspondents' Dinner. He said this stuff with Bush n' friends in the room. Gotta love it. A couple of my favs...Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection ( Read more... )

Everyone knows to draw a line through to the end of the monetary line on a check. Why do we do it? Well, to prevent fraud, of course. Right? True, the payee could attempt to append something to the end of the spelled-out dollar amount, but this always struck me as difficult and unlikely. Most people write dollar amounts something like this ( Read more... )

My muffin started out as blueberry, navigated disappointingly towards chocolate chip, and then resolved itself into a quite respectable banana walnut. Why must my baked goods have such identity issues?

Hmmm, so long since my last post and this is what I come back with?! My apologies.

"If you were young and depressed and bad at everything in 1992, Dr. Sbaitso was Prozac before Prozac was okay."
It's a wonderfully written article on one man's coming of age with the help of the SoundBlaster therapist Dr. Sbaitso. My contemporary geeky peers will know what it is.

[Discovered by way of gizmodo]

Hmmm, just read this story about David Copperfield. Apparently, he used "magic" to hide his wallet from armed muggers.

I dunno... Copperfield is such a showman, I'm highly suspicious that this is just a media stunt.