for comedienne Phyllis Diller. The only time she gets on TV nowadays is to provide some perspective and commentary when an old celebrity dies.
for comedienne Phyllis Diller. The only time she gets on TV nowadays is to provide some perspective and commentary when an old celebrity dies.
At last week's confirmation hearings for Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice, Sen. Joseph Biden (Plagiarist-Del.) suggested that Rice needed a little reality check when it came to the number of Iraqi troops we have trained. Rice puts the total number -- including police officers, border patrol, regular army -- at more than 100,000. Biden countered […]
I keep going to PoynterOnline's MediaNews feature hoping to see some sort of serious discussion of CBS's fradulent memos story. It hasn't happened -- and probably will never happen. Why? I think the two big questions that the independent report left unanswered -- the authenticity of the documents and whether political bias was the reason […]
SpongeBob SquarePants is not a homosexual, despite what some people say. You'd have thought they would've learned their lesson after the whole Tinky Winky episode. However, in their "defense," they're only using similar standards for determining sexual preference as others have used to determine that Abraham Lincoln was gay.
...it would be a hate crime. I don't get why the aforelinked blogger is so popular. It certainly isn't talent.
When I saw this photo, I started to choke up a little bit. Casey Owens, a wounded Marine, salutes as his mother Janna Owens cries during the inaugural speech by President Bush. Jonathan Ernst - Reuters But there was no crying. There is no crying in blogging.
Scientific American has an article on real-world quantum cryptography. It's an interesting article for anyone who's ever had an interest in cryptography. Unfortunately, Scientific American's explanation for the process of quantum cryptography is a little hard to understand. If you're looking for a good book on the subject, I heartly endorse Simon Singh's "The Code […]
Guns are bad. Really bad. At least, that's what the Academy Award-winning film "Bowling for Columbine" purported to show. America is a dangerous place with all of these gun-wielding nuts running around. Then you see this: Filmmaker Michael Moore's bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York's JFK airport Wednesday night. Police […]
I have a suggestion for the Democrats in the Senate. If you want to make a little noise by delaying the vote on the first African-American woman to be nominated for Secretary of State, it might be a good idea to choose someone who isn't a former member of the Ku Klux Klan to put […]
From a Reuters report on President Bush's second term: The rest of the world will be watching with anxiety when President Bush is inaugurated Thursday for a second time, fearing the most powerful man on the planet may do more harm than good. Many world leaders, alienated by Bush's go-it-alone foreign policy and the U.S.-led […]