The best things about Gummi Bears (aside from their adorable candy malleability), is that you can almost always keep them safely and snugly in your pants pockets—warm, soft, intimately embracing like a den of pied, tasty Ursus americanus treats… And better still—the chances that even one of the little fellas will become spooked and tear the thighmeat from your femur in strips of ragged marbled flesh, is exceedingly rare—particularly if
January 16, 2006
January 16, 2006
“Gore Assails Domestic Wiretapping Program”
Well, here we go again. Forgive the ABC/AP headline (the “wiretapping” Gore is “assailing” is foreign intel gathering, and not, as The AP/ABC would have you believe, “domestic wiretapping”—except in the most incidental and /or theoretically non-specific sense of the description (and as legally prescribed under FISA’s electronic surveillance definition). And not only that, but it is foreign intel gathering performed under the Constitutional auspices of the NSA (as a
January 16, 2006
My first brief conversation with the Ghost of Shelley Winters
Me: “Gosh. I was really quite sorry to hear about your passing, Ms Winters. I was an enormous fan of your work –”* Shelley Winters’ Ghost: “– Feh. Had I known they’d be serving such delicious brisket and potatoes I’d have kicked off years ago. I mean, kosher salt and rosemary!—can you believe it? Who knew?”
January 16, 2006
Blog Sorbet
**** Add Guinness and an episode of “The Rockford Files,” and voila! Perspective returns! See you all soon, I hope.
January 16, 2006
Site business
Two things: 1) I’m looking for a script that will allow me to display a personalized RSS feed on my sidebar (viewable in regular web browsers; I’ve seen a few of these but I have no idea how they work or how to implement them). Some examples include Bill Quick’s feed at Daily Pundit, or Ace’s feed at Ace of Spades Headquarters. Ideas? 2) The new oversized Cafe Press “BECAUSE
January 16, 2006
protein wisdom: “One of the biggest no-names in the world”
From the “anti-Pajamas Media / meet your presumptuous cornholing bloghost” series.