Archive for March 2006

The monthlies.

• Madness Reprieve

  By the way, the basketball gods granted my bracket a reprieve last night as top-seeded and heavily-favored Duke was upset by 4 LSU, in the exact spot in the bracket where I had predicted Syracuse would trounce tobacco-country Duke. It’s a zero-sum result, in my opinion. Update: Oh yea, my published bracket is currently in [...]

• In the News

  - Ms. Bush, Dubya’s mother made a mistake by donating to a “Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil.“ – YouTube is alright, but in my opinion, vSocial is the most user-friendly. – And another day, another strange development in Florida as [...]

• In the News, part 2

  Yes, I know I shortchanged you this morning, but when you start working on your masthead, you just can’t stop (or so it seems). – The unions must be doing something right. “About 100,000 GM workers will be eligible for payouts of between $35,000 and $140,000 depending on their years of service.” That is, at [...]

• In the News

  - Microsoft, or in other words, life without innovation, delays product delivery in order to find out what everyone else is doing. – And the IRS is considering allowing companies to sell copies of your entire tax return.“

• hmm…

  Fooling around with Picasa I decided to retool the site design… A few changes led to a few changes, which led to…

• A Prolife Demonstration (or, "They May Look Like Fools")

  Now that this teaser video for my “reyonthehill does dc” project has been viewed nearly 700 times…

• Sweet Sixteen Over Analyzed

  Don’t you hate it when people over-analyze sporting events… Okay, so my bracket isn’t in great shape, but it ain’t a total loss… yet. However, as I have admitted before, I vote for the greatest games (I am not in a pool), so I will in fact be rooting for teams that would “mess up” [...]

• In the News

  - “Twenty-four years after the Loma Prieta earthquake snapped the upper deck,” commuters to San Francisco will be able to drive over the replaced span of the Bay Bridge (in 2013). – A press conference?!? Bush admits the decision to remove U.S. troops in Iraq “will be made by future presidents.“ – And the government [...]

• Baba O’Reilly

  From the Outfoxed documentary… Baba in polish is a very bad word, and fits O’Reilly perfectly.

• In the News

  - According to a new study, “confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals and whiny kids tended to grow up conservative.” Whomever funded this study deserves pie. – The computer science program at Leland Stanford Community College has been around for forty years and has created many successes, e.g., Yahoo! and Google. [...]

• The Impeachment Question

  Yesterday’s Doonesbury… (Click on image for full cartoon.) Image: Yahoo!

• Cuba Libre

  I wonder if I am spewing anti-American garbage since I am rooting for Cuba to win the inaugural World Baseball Classic. It is my opinion that the U.S. should fully normalize relations with the island nation. (Summers in Havana.) We are talking about an executive order from the JFK administration… Cuba Libre, a Philadelphia restaurant; [...]

• An Appropriate "All Empoyees" Email For This Monday

  To: All EmployeesSubject: bushism Fact: Bush tried to rally the congressional republicans last Thursday… “Ours [the GOP] is the party that can see into the future.“ Commentary: Apparently, they took the night off before Katrina and were on vacation during the buildup to the Iraq quagmire, but it’s a pretty neat trick, nonetheless. – Jeff [...]

• Ultimate Bracket; introducing politoon…

  Tommy Toles does it again… your morning political cartoon, or from now on, “politoon.” Where are all those bracketology people when you need them? Image: Yahoo!

• Bush, GOP Scientologists?

  Yes, “scientology” is certainly a buzzword as we close out the week, and maybe by using the term in the blog-title, it will guarantee visitors to this blog (but probably not). In fact, I am not even sure if scientologists claim to see in the future, but I feel it is safe to assume so. [...]

• In the News

  End-of-the-day version. – With regards to the most ridiculous thing to hit pay-per-view, a John Lennon seance, we’ve got to be relieved that Yoko isn’t behind it. – Bush has nominated the Governor of Idaho to the government position I was born to have, head of the Department of the Interior. – And Google gets [...]

• Impeaching Mr. Bush

  This can’t be seen as a good thing for the White House — forty-two percent of Americans want Bush impeached… Image: American Research Group

• Try, Try Again

  As Bush has reaffirmed in his belief (and extended his policy) of strike-first (and worry-later), Toles has put together a little graphic for us to see how Bush came to his decision to stay the course… Image: Yahoo!

• Oranges…

  I know what you are thinking, so I will beat you to the punch. There is less than a minute to go in the game, and yes, Syracuse is out of the tournament. So goes my bracket (for the second year in a row). So it goes… UPDATE: For reference, see what happened last year [...]

• Orange.

  Image: ESPN.com

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