There's really little I enjoy more than sitting down in a coffee shop or Panera Bread store, pulling out my laptop and surfing the Web while I eat lunch. If you want to get me in your restaurant, give me free Wi-Fi. Continental Airlines understands this, which is why it offers free Wi-Fi access to […]
Quoted on Fox News' "Special Report with Brit Hume" in a report on the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court we have our Idiot of the day: Debra Ness of the National Partnership for Women. The right of women to vote, the right to privacy, all of these are rights that Americans hold […]
Via XRLQ comes this gem from Judge Ellar "I'm an arrogant moron who doesn't listen" Duff of Madison County, Missouri. An Alton woman embroiled in a divorce case spent more than four hours in jail for contempt of court after she refused a Madison County's judge's order to return a handgun to her ex-husband, a […]
American freelance journalist/blogger Steven Vincent was murdered yesterday in Iraq. I was still at work earlier this evening when word came over the wires that Vincent had been killed -- the news will make it into the south and city editions of today’s Union-Tribune. Over the next few days and weeks we will hopefully learn […]
Los Angeles Times media critic David Shaw died last night. Though Shaw was disdainful of bloggers (they don't have "four experienced editors" checking their copy), he was also a talented and honest journalist. I first ran across Shaw's work nearly a decade ago as I was working on my senior project at Cal Poly SLO—an […]
For those of you aspiring secret agents, today's New York Times provides us with a rule that is key to keeping your covert identity secure: Don't let your politically minded spouse list your name in his/her Who's Who listing. One of the most puzzling aspects of the C.I.A. leak case has had to do with […]
I get home tonight, flush the toilet and the lever inside the tank breaks. It somehow got corroded and just snapped. A quick jaunt over to Home Depot and $4.28 later and I've got it fixed. I need to visit Home Depot more often; the young lady working in the fixtures department...hubba, hubba.
Bush bypassed those annoying Democrat senators today and gave a recess appointment to U.N. Ambassador John Bolton. Democrats are, predictably, outraged by the move. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, criticized the recess appointment. "The abuse of power and the cloak of secrecy from the White House continues," Kennedy said in a statement. "It's bad enough […]
On "Fox News Sunday," Sen. Chris Dodd, when discussing the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court, referred to the "privacy clause" in the Constitution. The printer must've made a mistake with my copy, because I can't seem to find that pesky clause anywhere.
You know, if you were a Kool-Aid drinker, then you'd think that this never happened before. You know, when Democrats controlled the Congress. That's why there's so few things named after Democrat Sen. Robert C. Byrd.