Year: 2005

  • If I were king

    I just tried out Nathan Newman’s National Budget Simulator and, with a little tinkering, reduced the deficit by about 90%: Old budget was $3747.36 billion ($2672.527 billion in spending, $1074.833 billion in tax expenditures and cuts). New budget is $3369.49 billion ($2633.78 billion in spending, $735.71 billion in tax expenditures and cuts). You have cut…

  • My other adopted African child

    I just agreed to give $10 every month to the Democratic National Committee. And now I feel like I’ve now got another adopted child out there in the Sudanese desert, going to a new school, hopefully. Getting wells put in for clean water. All of that. I hope they send me a picture as my…

  • No guarantee Rove won’t be indicted

    And when the frogs, come marching out…. Think Progress :: BREAKING: Karl Rove to Give Additional Testimony … oh Lord I want Karl to be in that number, when the frogs go marching out. Though I’d easily let go of my Karl-wish to see him roll over on the boss. Update: I had titled this…

  • Yahoo buys Upcoming.org

    Congratulations to Andy Baio (and Gordon Luk and Leonard Lin): Waxy.org: Daily Log: Yahoo and Upcoming, Sitting In A Tree I’m a day late and a dollar short here, but had to note this. Yahoo is really getting aggressive about their whole Web 2.0 strategy. A lot of the big names are being gathered under…

  • Weighing Justices

    Justice may be blind and that’s for the good but what about those scales? When it comes to weighing one side against another I’m worried about size and heft overpowering brevity and thrift. Another way of imagining this concern is to place a bible on one side of the scale and the U.S. Constitution on…

  • I admit it

    It amuses me that conservatives are just now beginning to notice how totally they’ve been played by Dear Leader. In fact, this thread a RedState is totally making my day. A few choice excerpts: We’re disgusted By: SpectatorGirl Bush lied to us. Let Kos cheer. The post below should not get lost, that her name…

  • Harriet Miers, fashion froward?

    My first glimpse of the latest nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court on the afternoon news revealed not just your usual power-suited Washington insider. First, the suit was a serene royal blue, not screaming patriotic red. Beneath the suit jacket, nominee Miers sported a demure “high-collared” silk blouse, also in royal blue. Could this be…

  • MIT weblog survey results one month overdue

    Come on, guys. I’ve been checking your site daily since September 1: The survey has officially ended, and we are tabulating the results. They should be posted by September 1, 2005, so please check back soon! Thank you for your support, and we will be posting the results shortly. MIT Weblog Survey Team August 19,…

  • Play that funky music, white boy

    I gave my love a Cherry. It had no bone.

  • Sorry Gallows Humour

    The real problem with medical marijuana, the DEA says, is not its specific effects on health, but that it “sends absolutely the wrong message to elderly people.” This age group tends to view debilitating diseases as “cool,” and statistical studies indicate powerful peer-pressure for illness and pain at this age. It may also be a…

  • Grotian to the max

    One of the best ways to follow Saddam Hussein’s trial may just be Case School of Law’s new Grotian Moment Blog. (via TalkLeft)

  • Fa love Pa!

    OK, this story about missing killer dolphins in the Gulf Coast is just creepy.

  • Shock and Opossumism

    Bush ‘encouraged’ despite report on Iraqi troops, Reuters During congressional testimony on Thursday, Gen. George Casey, top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Gen. John Abizaid, top U.S. commander in the Middle East, said the number of such battalions [that can go into combat without the help of the U.S. military] had dropped since July to…

  • George W. Ozymandias

    It is hard to express how catastrophic these kinds of results from a very mainstream survey are for the President of unilateral “shock and awe.” There is no middle ground. The last great military Superpower must either rule the world , or else become mere meathead muscle for the policies of other lands Public Rejects…

  • BlinkList social bookmarking engine

    Another from the “meant to post this a while ago” files. A fellow named Mike Reining from MindValley wrote me to tell me about their BlinkList service. Mike successfully got my attention by showing awareness of this site (and also You’re It), writing to me about MindValley’s passion for “how online tools are transforming the…

  • First the LA Times, now the US Government

    The Onion, America’s Finest News Source, reports: Congress Abandons WikiConstitution: WASHINGTON, DC – Congress scrapped the open-source, open-edit, online version of the Constitution Monday, only two months after it went live. “The idea seemed to dovetail perfectly with our tradition of democratic participation,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said. “But when so-called ‘contributors’ began loading…

  • Wanted: better Netflix-blog integration

    So I just returned Coffee and Cigarettes and Netflix invites me to give it some stars and maybe review it for my Netflix friends. I guess I can bother to improve their data and their ability to recommend things for me and my friends (not that I’ve ever yet relied on their recommendations), but it…

  • Blogging a yoga conference

    Susan Mernit gave me a head’s up about this wekeend’s YOGA JOURNAL LIVE at ESTES PARK, a conference blog related to The 10th Annual Yoga Journal Colorado Conference (which itself includes a conference-within-a-conference featuring yoga legend Sri B.K.S. Iyengar). The blog is described as “A live conference blog sharing the teaching of BKS Iyengar and…

  • War Is Where You Find It

    Anti-war protesters pick up steam and take cause to D.C. . “Organizers expect more than 100,000 people for a march around the White House on Saturday. Sheehan is scheduled to speak. Rallies by war supporters are expected along the route.” USA Today 9/24/05 –The war supporters are expected to include some who support the current…

  • Welcome, Camilo!

    Loyal readers of this weblog may have noticed that we haven’t exactly kept up with the original three-to-seven posts a day pace that I first established in that heady summer of 2002. I’ve been busy with my new job and my other blogs and my other contributors have their own blogs and pursuits distracting them…

  • Reporters without Borders releases blog-censorship handbook

    Via the Beeb: A handbook that offers advice to bloggers who want to protect themselves from recrimination and censors has been released by Reporters Without Borders.