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May 12, 2006

It’s Friday, brother!  And after a long week, there’s nothing we’d like more than to see&#8212

—Ooh, sorry.  No can do.  At least, not this week.  Seems the little guy heard me talking about the exciting field of retail POS the other day and got so jazzed that he ran right off and signed himself up for some night courses at Foothills Community College.  He starts this evening. Which, who knows?  Two, three years?—and he could be moving Royal A9155SC Electronic Cash Registers w/ Scanner and

Another moment of unabashed pragmatism

With my mother-in-law arriving in town in just a few hours, I’ve decided that in lieu of doing a lengthy and substantive post, I’m just going to put up something short.  Like this. That way, I’ll have time to vaccuum up the Cheez-It crumbs, keep you all flush with new pw content, and find myself some pants. And a shirt.  And some socks and underwear. **** update:  Oops.  Turned out

“Obama: Bush is using ‘subliminal messages‘“

Like, you know, airbrushing little pictures of Jesus into the ice cubes in all those J&B Scotch print ads. Anyway, Allah takes Obama to the woodshed and beats him with one of Nancy Pelosi’s cardinal red high heel Gucci pumps.

“More Uranium Reportedly Found in Iran”

Just consider this an update to yesterday’s post on Iran.  Only this time, worry even more, if you’re so inclined. I wouldn’t blame you. From Breitbart/AP: The U.N. atomic agency found traces of highly enriched uranium at an Iranian site linked to the country’s defense ministry, diplomats said Friday, adding to concerns that Tehran was hiding activities aimed at making nuclear arms. The diplomats, who demanded anonymity in exchange for

The “New” NSA Kerfuffle, Day 2

Even as a Washington Post/ABC News poll—in itself a bit deceiving (on which, more later)—reveals that 66% of Americans “said they would not be bothered if NSA collected records of personal calls they had made,” many of the usual suspects (be they Bush-haters angling to scuttle the Hayden nomination to DCI, or civil liberties absolutists looking to stroke themselves for an ostentatious “willingness” to surrender a bit of security for