The Long And the Short of It

Boing Boing has an example of what happens when you tack too much artwork onto your magazine cover. Just go and see.

Slashdot, which really should be on your daily read list, is reporting that we’re perhaps two years away from the next StarTrek movie. THey’re aiming at a whole new cast, of course.

We’ll see.

AP is moving a story today about a couple celebrating their 80th wedding anniversary. These two have been married longer than most people have been alive, for pity’s sake. In a world where people make wedding vows that don’t last

Today is the day.
Frankly, it’s a day I never thought about getting to, much less planned for.
When I started this blog, it was as an experiment… an add-on to a weekly-updated website I’d been running for two years,

David Limbaugh makes what to some will be an astonishing statement:

Famed Clinton pollster Stanley Greenberg is, I think, correct, but for the wrong reasons when he says that Democrats have lost major elections in recent years because they have

Boortz suggests one of the reasons the French decidd against the EU was because it wasn’t socialist enough.

one of the reasons the amazing French rejected the European Union Constitution was their fear of capitalism.  They were afraid of a

I wrote a bit some years ago, and have reposted it here occasionally, that dove right in to examination of the weird warnings we as consumers are provided by the various companes… and their lawyers.

Here’s one a reader sent

Austin Bay reminds me of a story I saw over the weekend, with a link to the Telegraph:

Two men claiming to be World War II Japanese soldiers have been found hiding on a Philippine island.

Japan is sending embassy

ABC News: Who Is W. Mark Felt?

Well, for one thing, he claims to have been “Deep Throat”.

He was also the number 2 man in the FBI during the 70’s. Which means, dear reader, that the FBI had a

Cathy’s Worldpoints out that Oliver stone was arrested for DWI over the weekend, and brings up a recent encounter with StonedStone.

Look let’s be honest, this is no shock at all from this clown.

Little Green Footballs points up reports from Yala, in southern Thailand. Apparently the citizens there are fleeing the so-called city of peace… because of the “Religion of peace”

Doctor Implication, call your office.

I took a large bit of backside off of Orson Scott Card a few weeks wgo becase frankly he deserved it.

In this week’s column, he’s equally deserving of praise:

Personally, I think there should be legal consequences for editors

John from Power Line in what has GOTTA be the line of the month:

Well, you know a painting is offensive when the guy who painted the Pope with swastikas thinks it's over the line.

Outside The Beltway (Along with everyone else) notes the French voters and their rejection of the EU Constitution.

Personally, I’m curious; I see an awful lot of dancing around the causes underlying this rejection.  Is this a rejection of Chirac?

From Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia

Hi friends, I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under.  It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new