— is going nuts over the lost explosives.
Her: Do you think Mohamed ElBaradei is currently running around with 380 tons of Schadenfreude?
Him: The worst thing about working at the IAEA is that nobody can hear you say “I told you so.” On account of all the explosions.
Her: God, wouldn’t it be ironic if the Iraq war actually somehow increased terrorism? Who could have forseen such iron? Maybe ninety percent of the world or something?
And, actually, more than a little inspiring:
Dying Texas man casts his vote
In the 10 days after Welch Flippin decided to stop dialysis and began succumbing to kidney failure, the 85-year-old Texas farmer and World War II veteran had something on his mind. Something, he told his son, he just had to do. He wanted to vote.
You don’t really need to see the picture to be afraid… very afraid. The caption is enough to give you nightmares:
From left to right: Katie Couric as Donald Trump, Al Roker as Oprah Winfrey, Matt Lauer as Paris Hilton, and Ann Curry as Tina Turner.
In unrelated news, I think I might have gone to college with Ann Curry. I’ve never bothered to try to find out. It’s not as if biographical information about celebrities is easily available on the Internet, after all.
Someone actually did something like this in 2000, but of course it was never definitively attributed to any party.
Republicans Urge Minorities To Get Out And Vote On Nov. 3
MIAMI, FL—With the knowledge that the minority vote will be crucial in the upcoming presidential election, Republican Party officials are urging blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities to make their presence felt at the polls on Wednesday, Nov. 3.
Also, don’t miss “Bush Campaign Paints Kerry As Pre-Raphaelite Contessa.”
Are there an unusual number of high-profile, politically significant illnesses in the news this week? And if celebrities always die in threes, do they get sick in threes?
I find now that when I stay up late, there’s a trough between about 12:30 and 1 when I get really sleepy. I’ll be typing, and find that my eyes are closed and I’m falling asleep- but I don’t necessarily stop typing. If I can remain in a relatively loud, stimulating environment, I can get over it, and push on for another hour or two.
However, if I’m sitting in one my kids’ rooms, like I am now, it’s a lot more of a struggle, anbd I start typiong pretty unreliably.
In an article slamming both the new iPods and XM’s portable satellite radio player, Paul Boutin says,
The biggest problem with XM right now, though, is content. It’s got 130 channels that I don’t want to listen to. There’s no Howard Stern, no Car Talk, no Rush Limbaugh. If XM has ever played Fischerspooner or Trooper, I missed it. If you want your music, stick to the iPod….
Apple’s player is the only way to go if you suddenly want to listen to a Clash song from 25 years ago, but if you need to find out the news from five minutes ago, your iPod is useless. You’re better off with MyFi or even a clunky, AM-only boom box. Forget that new U2 tune—the iPod theme song should be “Dancing With Myself.”
Hey, I just bought that song!
Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom’s recent remarks seem a model of clarity in contrast to this position:
Bush Says His Party Is Wrong to Oppose Gay Civil Unions
President Bush said in an interview this past weekend that he disagreed with the Republican Party platform opposing civil unions of same-sex couples and that the matter should be left up to the states….
In an interview on Sunday with Charles Gibson, an anchor of “Good Morning America” on ABC, Mr. Bush said, “I don’t think we should deny people rights to a civil union, a legal arrangement, if that’s what a state chooses to do so.” ABC, which broadcast part of the interview on Monday, is to broadcast the part about civil unions on Tuesday….
Mr. Bush announced in February that he supported an amendment to the Constitution that would ban same-sex marriage, and said at the time that the union of a man and a woman was “the most fundamental institution of civilization.” He acted under enormous pressure from his conservative supporters, who had lobbied the White House to have the president speak out in an election year on a matter of vital importance to them.
But Mr. Bush also said at the time that states should be permitted to have same-sex civil unions if they chose.
I thought part of the purpose of the Constitutional amendment was to short-circuit exactly this scenario, and to keep activist judges from rewriting marriage law. So it’s up to each individual state to decide of it wants to destroy civilization? Can someone explain this?
Yesterday, I got an e-mail message from a writer asking me about baby blogs. I’d mentioned them in my Red Herring column, and of course had talked about my blog about my children. Somehow, the piece came to her attention; as a result, I’m now in danger of looking like an expert on baby blogs in an English parenting magazine.
It’s an example- albeit a rather trivial one- of the power of the Internet. The Web doesn’t quite dissolve the boundaries of space and time the way some predicted, but it does increase the likelihood of weird connections- like this one- getting made.
This is the third European blog-mediated connection I’ve made in the last week. A couple months ago I described an idea for combining reputation systems and smart mobs in systems for dynaimc, on-the-fly carpooling, and just heard from someone whose company is actually doing something along these lines. And I got an invitation to a conference in December, which was very flattering.
Via one of the del.icio.us feeds that I follow:
Modern Circle Barbie doll has a flair for fashion! She features a reproduction vintage face sculpt popular among collectors and is dressed in a sleek green pantsuit with an aqua camisole underneath. Her simple yet chic accessories include a black choker and coordinating black beaded belt. She carries with her a “cell phone” and laptop computer encased in a black faux leather bag, and she has long, vibrant orange hair that she wears straight with bangs.
Doll cannot hold “laptop” as shown.
SO WHY IS SHE SHOWN HOLDING A LAPTOP???
And, for that matter, why does she look like Barbie in an all-doll remake of “La Femme Nikita”? Hey, now there’s a concept….
The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul
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