Yokels

Hogwash, I say. Or should I say doggy slobber? Shame on you DOJ.

the state of journalism, and somebody to follow

unwritten opinion

You know what I'm thinking... At least Alan does.

She's fucking crazy.

Berg's father speaks his mind.

Heard of the BTK (bind ,torture, kill) killer? He's back.

"Fwd: quick cash?"

I knew those little rice burners had to be illegal.

ever

this guy thanks you....even you scalia...you pawn.

the moscow times....found it today....who knew.

Homeland Security Blimps?!

Farewell my dear yokel hosts. Please accept my gratitude for your gracious hospitality. I have been called home to help my fellow ninja.

What the fuck? I was reading the Boston Globe, just checking out the skinny on the B's draft picks, when I came across an interview with Lyndon Byers about his participation in the upcoming "Hockey Gladiators" competition. What? I can't believe I havent heard about this thing before.

Conservative trash rag. (Be careful if you click on this at work. It's not bad, but... well, you know.)

saying 'no' to Saddam

more help with spyware.

aside: since I can't google for 'isearch.com' on my own PC, I did so at work, and came up with a plethora of options to try and rid my dell of isearch hell. and yet, when i'd open a link I had emailed myself, isearch blocked the site, preventing me from performing the fix. I've spoken with the IT guy here at work, and all he had for me was his own horror story of a friend's PC. I hate isearch. My computer is slow now, and nobody can help me. Can I prosecute the isearch muthafcukas? Cause this is a travashamockery.

the smoking gun: is that it?

Let your inner pimp shine

The mutants are coming.

Imperial Hubris: its not our values, its our actions

...touching on a discussion of the candidates of last night.

we gotta talk to kelly about the AC

COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLSHIT

the good news on smoking

"It was the third June in a row that scores of dead marine mammals had suddenly appeared along the Mauritania coastline..."

Comet: Wild 2

The fallacy of "Jihad of the sword, like prayer, is a religious obligation."

I clicked on this link because the headline said Madonna was changing her name to Esther and I thought, "Huh? What the fuck?" Needless to say, I read the article and thought, "What the fuck?" So I ask you, what in the good god damn fuck?

Anyone wanna get me a Father's Day present?

Just about right. Alan, I mentioned this one last night.

its the history channel for me tonight....take the phone off the hook

my car is safer than yours.

Little fella, I have to pack a bit and clean a bit, but if you're down for a beer or two or twelve, let me know. I'm leaving work in the next few minutes so I'll be home around 6ish. And remember, beer keeps aliens away.

Mike, Ufez Jones is looking for you. Here's a message I got from him about the CD swap:

Cool, Neil. You're in. Is garfield going to be in too? I know he mentioned something about it, but I never got an e-mail from him.

Weird that he knows we're friends. Anyway, I told him you'd email him tomorrow. Don't make me a liar, Mike. Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

P.S - This is going to be really fun. New music is always cool.

Kids illustrate popular sayings. Or idioms, If you want to be a nerd about it. My favorites are probably "a good head" and "a little steep".

This is easily the coolest webdesign I've ever seen. These are the people who did the amazing Drum Machine that I posted some months ago. I spent about 20 minutes just surfing around. I still have no idea what the deal was, but I know I enjoyed it.

the hockey project(THP)....check it out.

Relaxing that stiff upper lip, the BBC is gonna make samplers and mixers around the world oh so happy.

best op-ed ever by Brooks. It frames the current political polarization very accurately. Frighteningly so. I've never considered myself anything close to elitist, but apparently that is how my school of 'thought' is percieved. Ya learn something new everyday.

I don't post this in defense of President Bush's economic record. I've stated before that I believe that an Administration gets too much credit or blame for the performance of the economy during their tenure and I stick by that. I also don't specifically endorse GWB's stewardship of the American economy anyway. The tax cuts, which may have had the desired effect of reviving the economic slump are stupid if (because they are not tied to cost cuts) they cause long-term harm. We've seen tax cuts and cost increases so this works double.

I post this in defense of the truth. And the truth is that the economy is humming along, showing growth for two and a half years, including solid job growth of late. The idea that we're somehow in a weak period or that this is the worst we've had it in a century is so crazy it makes me want to cry.

We've had four total quarters of negative growth since 1999 (Q3 2000, Q1, Q2, Q3 2001) and while the growth figures don't mimic those of the late 90's, nothing ever has. And those numbers were simply not sustainable. The unemployment rate was tiny with workers saturating a ready market. Inflation was likewise tiny. And interest rates were low. But in the end, the economy could not keep that up. When this was realized, people began firing people. This started in Q3 2000. People checked FuckedCompany daily to see who was next on the block.

I mention all of this because of what we hear. We hear that President Bush has the worst record on job creation in a century. What we don't hear is that people were firing workers when he came into office and that even with that unemployment is at the same level as it was in 1996. Inflation is lower. And mortgage rates are lower. And in 1996 people were praising the fuck out of the economy based on the exact same figures. Oh, and there have been a 1,000,000 new jobs added in the last quarter.

Anyway, it pains me to hear this trumped-up shit. It does no good to talk about the economy in a negative light. Economic factors, amazingly enough, are highly dependent on optimism/pessimism. If companies believe one way, the economy follows suit. Talking shit about it, particularly when it ain't true, does not help.

In the 70's there were lines at gas stations, rationing, inflation circling above 15%, and unemployment above double-digits. Based on the economy alone, some may want to take another time in the last century to live, but I'm guessing if you really look at things, this one is pretty solid.

Don't believe the hype. We may pay for this later, lets enjoy it while we can.

ESPNs Mock Draft has the Rangers selecting Al Montoya, the goalie who backstopped the US Junior Team to their recent championship. I'd be pleased with this, despite a lot of people around the internet who hate the idea. Either way, it is no doubt wrong.

November 8th, 2004. Road trip? It's something to consider.

Ahhh, ten years and a day ago, the greatest hockey team that ever graced this fine planet took a skate around MSG with the Stanley Cup. As an unfortunate Ninja knows, I watched the replay last night with great enthusiasm. And it brought back everything. What a wonderful couple of months that was for me. And now we suck.

One thing to note: While I love the idea that Leetch, Graves, and Mess were the three goal-scorers in the deciding game, I'm still not sure The Captain touched the puck on that last goal. Either way, it was awesomer than the most awesome thing ever.

1972! 1972! 1972!

1967! 1967! 1967!

Suckers.

"What's his accomplishment?" Mr. Reagan asked then. "That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?"

I recently received an email from the good folks at DoubleClick inviting me to a party for ex-employees. It's the second annual one of these things they've held. Apparently, they feel like it's a good idea to feed beer and munchies to people they fired or people who quit because they fired all of their friends and made them work six times as hard for no extra money. It's signed by each of the executives, those who somehow maintained their jobs despite a lack of vision, a fall in stock price, and a complete breakdown of half of their divisions.

Needless to say, the most disturbing aspect of all of this is that I have no idea how they got my email address.

Yeah, that's her real name. Found on Everlasting Blort.

Damn you, irony!

Buy my book. Okay, not mine, but written by someone named JP McGovern.

Dogs keep impressing the scientific community. Cats sit and scratch stuff.

gadget lab

I don't know how he feels about everything else Bloomberg has done, but Alan may now be a fan for life.

Safire nailed it today. Also poems of blood and anger....the first two, by soldiers, are a must read...I admittedly don't read Kristof all that much, but his blog has some interesting tidbits. Regarding an article about the lessons of Troy:

for all the greatness and glory of Athens, its arrogance after the Persian Wars systematically alienated its allies and led to its defeat by Sparta within the span of three-quarters of a century. He wrote: "One cannot but identify with the Athenians, their values and their culture, which after all formed the single most important contribution to Western civilization. However, they did miss (to their detriment) a historic opportunity to maintain a 'gentle' leadership of the Greek world....I am afraid the U.S. may be missing a similar opportunity. And I am scared that if this continues for a couple of generations,” he writes, “the equivalent of the Spartan fleet may be sailing up New York harbor by the turn of the century.

The Cult of Corporation: has it run amok, or will it correct itself

Pollution Trading: in the spirit of Kyoto

Intro Genius: the dude that did se7en

Why they hate us, and why we haven't figured it out.

The Mets picked third in today's baseball draft. They selected Philip Humber, a college pitcher from Rice. He's a tall righty, a safe pick, and proven winner.

Game 7. Should be fun.

Oh, sweet crap.

Some people are doing good things for ocean conservation. Good for them.

Let us take the portrait of this fish. Doubtless the reader figures to himself a fish of "a lean and hungry look," a very Cassius of a fish, with the lantern-jaws of a pike. But, in fact, the Pirai is somewhat aldermanic and like a beam in figure, with a fighting-looking kind of nose, and a wonderously expressive eye. The jaw is square, powerful, and locked into a very large head for the size of the fish; and that is a fat, plump head, too, but radiated over with strong bone and gristle. The teeth - ah! They would condemn him anywhere, for here is a fish sixteen inches long with the teeth almost of a shark.

I'm re-reading my oldest books today. That's a discription of a piranha from "Glimpses of the Animate Kingdom", published in 1886. The other book I'm reading is "Anomalies and Curiousities of Medicine", published in 1896. The first book is hilarious, but the second book is horrific. It's funny when octopi are called "devilfish", but it's scary when you see some of the stuff that can happen to your ballsack.

Blame Canada.

Good News Department: My promotion and raise went into effect yesterday. I'm rich, beeeyatch. Working however, remains over-rated.

Golfing in Afghanistan. Neat story.

The mystery of the changing bank account has been solved. It was my mom's fault.