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Getting this one in before the wee hours of the morning. Was good to lounge around and watch the last stand of the New York Football Giants against the encroaching forces of Doctor Football. The battle was waged in the air above the grounds, as both sides’ ground defenses were well-entrenched and difficult to break. The Giants were able to hold an advantage for quite some time. As the battle wore on, the inexperience of the Giants’ field general began to show and Doctor Football’s air and ground forces capitalized on the mistakes of the inexperienced commander and his units. Doctor Football stands victorious, having swept away all the opposition in his path. However, it has been rumored that rebellions are breaking out in previously conquered territories, with new and familiar opponents returning to the field with new direction and drive, hoping to stop Doctor Football and unseat his reign. In two weeks, The Michigan Man and Doctor Football will have to take to the field again to defend their right to rule! Will they remain undefeated? Will they be able to send difficult opponents back and repulse any new invaders? Tune in, in two weeks, for.... The Playoff Campaign!
Anticipating further instability in the Middle East, oil prices are flirting with the $100 USD/barrel mark. With regard to the matter in Pakistan, the official conclusion from the government is not bullet, but a skull fracture from the shrapnel or the landing from the bomb detonated.
The newly elected president of South Africa's ruling paty, Jacob Zuma, will stand trial for corruption, fraud, racketeering, and money laundering charges. Zuma has been under investigation for well before this time, so likely, win or defeat, he would have been served with the charges. Zuma is still wondering why the prosecuting office waited until after elections before serving charges.
The Huffington Post’s Bob Cesca would like to remind us that while he's sending troops into Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Bush likes to smirk. As if the idea of war was somehow funny, or that there’s some joke going on about all of this - perhaps it’s the “I managed to sell the American populace on attacking a country that had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks that struck us” joke. If that’s it, it ain’t funny. Luckily, leveling curses at the government is not a new thing. The right to be able to do so freely is a little newer.
However, it’s certainly a new thing for political rallies to be held inside popular MMORPGs. And, naturally, it’s Mr. Paul at the forefront of this. If nothing else, Mr. Paul has tapped into what Mr. Dean did in the last election cycle.
Continuing in the “dirt on candidates” department, Michelle Malkin says "Ha! Romney could have kept a killer locked up for a bit more, but he released him, and then murders happened!" Which is true that Romney could have kept Tavares locked up for a little longer, but if Tavares was going to be killing when he got out, then it would have only delayed things. That’s not really a resounding strike against Mitt Romney. Mike Huckabee was not in good form, either, deciding that he wanted to talk about illegal Pakistani immigration in relation to the Bhutto killing. Ron Paul is not exempt from this, either, as statements he made regarding immigration in 1988 are different than his current statements. That’s twenty years ago, though. Plenty of time to evolve one’s position into something else. I still think it weird that people expect political figures to have been consistent for all of their life.
Reason Magazine asks "Just How Dangerous Is Police Work"? Considering the statistics on police officer on-the-job deaths, and then removing non-violent and traffic accident deaths, and the figures break down to about 8 per 100,000, which is about twice the national average for on-the-job deaths. Reason then asks whether that 8 per 100,000 really justifies the way that police officers are being turned into armories, with higher-powered weapons, armor, and even strong “non-lethal” weaponry.
Miss France keeps her crown after publication of non-nude, suggestive photos. She will not, however, be permitted to compete in the Miss World or Miss Universe contests. The photos are apparently licking cream in a provocative manner and being in a bikini while lying on a cross. Things that American models have been doing for a while now. Are we attempting to impose a rule that says these fantastically beautiful women, who we’re priding on their attractiveness, can’t actually have done anything that says they acknowledge their beauty and sexiness? That’s quite the Puritan contradiction.
Actually worth getting angry at because of something someone did that is really morally wrong, rather than the faux-outrage of a beautiful woman deciding to be beautiful, is the six year-old who lied and said her father died in Iraq to get Miley Cyrus tickets. And her mother helped her write the false essay, but when the contest people actually asked and did some checking, it turns out the father had no record, much less being dead. For fugging shame. If a Vanity Fair writer has self-doubt and remorse over the possibility that his writings may have indirectly killed a soldier (and that’s a really well-written piece, by the way), the least people can do is not try to shamelessly exploit the feelings evoked from the deaths of people just for crass pop-culture entertainment.
As a follow-up to yesterday’s new regulations on airlines, Jet Lagged lays out in very nice detail how many things that are supposed to be for out security and protection in the airport do neither.
In technology news, Netscape Navigatior is officially dead. Long live the Firefox branch, then. For when hardware phases out into obsolescence, and for those who collect gadgets and devices that they don’t actually end up using, Second Rotation offers to buy the gadgets from you, then they will check them, erase all data, and then resell or recycle them. Yay, extended lifetimes and good usages!
Will the resident cooks and chefs on the list take a look at Medieval Cookery and say whether any of the stuff on the list looks good and could be made by someone of my skills and budget (buying expensive spices may require juggling of finances)? I’m not completely sure whether I’ll go through with it, but if there’s an affordable recipe or two there, I might be willing to give it a go.
One list tonight before the end - the seven least-faithful comic book movies, according to Cracked.
Last for tonight is something funny - BlahBlahFish, which takes a phrase, runs it through one translation, and then back to English again, for everyone to have a laugh at how the sentence has been disfigured - and something fearsome, such as the Hello Kitty Hotel. The mascot girl tipped the creep scale for me. I would expect to see an outfit like that being worn by someone in a love hotel. Which is a little weird by itself, but there’s a proud tradition of corrupting and perverting children’s icons to much more adult purposes.
And then, we toddle off to sleep. In a few years, if it turns out sniffing a particular drug returns the brain to wakefulness in humans as it does in monkeys, we may never need to sleep because we’re tired. We might need it for other reasons yet-undiscovered. But for those who need all-nighters...
Anticipating further instability in the Middle East, oil prices are flirting with the $100 USD/barrel mark. With regard to the matter in Pakistan, the official conclusion from the government is not bullet, but a skull fracture from the shrapnel or the landing from the bomb detonated.
The newly elected president of South Africa's ruling paty, Jacob Zuma, will stand trial for corruption, fraud, racketeering, and money laundering charges. Zuma has been under investigation for well before this time, so likely, win or defeat, he would have been served with the charges. Zuma is still wondering why the prosecuting office waited until after elections before serving charges.
The Huffington Post’s Bob Cesca would like to remind us that while he's sending troops into Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Bush likes to smirk. As if the idea of war was somehow funny, or that there’s some joke going on about all of this - perhaps it’s the “I managed to sell the American populace on attacking a country that had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks that struck us” joke. If that’s it, it ain’t funny. Luckily, leveling curses at the government is not a new thing. The right to be able to do so freely is a little newer.
However, it’s certainly a new thing for political rallies to be held inside popular MMORPGs. And, naturally, it’s Mr. Paul at the forefront of this. If nothing else, Mr. Paul has tapped into what Mr. Dean did in the last election cycle.
Continuing in the “dirt on candidates” department, Michelle Malkin says "Ha! Romney could have kept a killer locked up for a bit more, but he released him, and then murders happened!" Which is true that Romney could have kept Tavares locked up for a little longer, but if Tavares was going to be killing when he got out, then it would have only delayed things. That’s not really a resounding strike against Mitt Romney. Mike Huckabee was not in good form, either, deciding that he wanted to talk about illegal Pakistani immigration in relation to the Bhutto killing. Ron Paul is not exempt from this, either, as statements he made regarding immigration in 1988 are different than his current statements. That’s twenty years ago, though. Plenty of time to evolve one’s position into something else. I still think it weird that people expect political figures to have been consistent for all of their life.
Reason Magazine asks "Just How Dangerous Is Police Work"? Considering the statistics on police officer on-the-job deaths, and then removing non-violent and traffic accident deaths, and the figures break down to about 8 per 100,000, which is about twice the national average for on-the-job deaths. Reason then asks whether that 8 per 100,000 really justifies the way that police officers are being turned into armories, with higher-powered weapons, armor, and even strong “non-lethal” weaponry.
Miss France keeps her crown after publication of non-nude, suggestive photos. She will not, however, be permitted to compete in the Miss World or Miss Universe contests. The photos are apparently licking cream in a provocative manner and being in a bikini while lying on a cross. Things that American models have been doing for a while now. Are we attempting to impose a rule that says these fantastically beautiful women, who we’re priding on their attractiveness, can’t actually have done anything that says they acknowledge their beauty and sexiness? That’s quite the Puritan contradiction.
Actually worth getting angry at because of something someone did that is really morally wrong, rather than the faux-outrage of a beautiful woman deciding to be beautiful, is the six year-old who lied and said her father died in Iraq to get Miley Cyrus tickets. And her mother helped her write the false essay, but when the contest people actually asked and did some checking, it turns out the father had no record, much less being dead. For fugging shame. If a Vanity Fair writer has self-doubt and remorse over the possibility that his writings may have indirectly killed a soldier (and that’s a really well-written piece, by the way), the least people can do is not try to shamelessly exploit the feelings evoked from the deaths of people just for crass pop-culture entertainment.
As a follow-up to yesterday’s new regulations on airlines, Jet Lagged lays out in very nice detail how many things that are supposed to be for out security and protection in the airport do neither.
In technology news, Netscape Navigatior is officially dead. Long live the Firefox branch, then. For when hardware phases out into obsolescence, and for those who collect gadgets and devices that they don’t actually end up using, Second Rotation offers to buy the gadgets from you, then they will check them, erase all data, and then resell or recycle them. Yay, extended lifetimes and good usages!
Will the resident cooks and chefs on the list take a look at Medieval Cookery and say whether any of the stuff on the list looks good and could be made by someone of my skills and budget (buying expensive spices may require juggling of finances)? I’m not completely sure whether I’ll go through with it, but if there’s an affordable recipe or two there, I might be willing to give it a go.
One list tonight before the end - the seven least-faithful comic book movies, according to Cracked.
Last for tonight is something funny - BlahBlahFish, which takes a phrase, runs it through one translation, and then back to English again, for everyone to have a laugh at how the sentence has been disfigured - and something fearsome, such as the Hello Kitty Hotel. The mascot girl tipped the creep scale for me. I would expect to see an outfit like that being worn by someone in a love hotel. Which is a little weird by itself, but there’s a proud tradition of corrupting and perverting children’s icons to much more adult purposes.
And then, we toddle off to sleep. In a few years, if it turns out sniffing a particular drug returns the brain to wakefulness in humans as it does in monkeys, we may never need to sleep because we’re tired. We might need it for other reasons yet-undiscovered. But for those who need all-nighters...
