Thousands attend tax-day protest in Madison, Wis.
It’s a promising headline. No point of view here, right? The AP is totally objective, after all…
Speakers at a sometimes angry rally Wednesday accused Gov. Jim Doyle and lawmakers of smoking crack cocaine, said government spending was ruining the country and called for [...]
Assuming we can arrange babysitting, we’re hoping to be there:
We are having a benefit for our niece, Halley Anderson, who received a life-saving liver transplant in November. Halley lived in the hospital from August through November, and the financial difficulties due to Halley’s condition have been very hard on [...]
(Because I know they won’t do anything with the email I sent to their Corrections address.)
Context (heh) here, original nonsense here.
Hello,
You have done Michele Bachmann, but much more importantly your readership, a great disservice by stripping her remarks on WWTC of context and parading them in [...]
I love MAKE magazine. Despite it’s questionable passion for performance artists and their output, MAKE does a great job
[...]I have an HP 5510 all-in-one printer/scanner/fax, and for the most part, despite some bulky software, I like it. Or I did, until I started getting “Print Cartridge Error” messages on it.
I tried the suggestions from HP’s website (cleaning contacts and ink nozzles), but nothing helped. Then my mom [...]
I know this isn’t the final word, but I’ve been half-predicting this for years:
There is evidence, however, that avoiding nuts makes children ultimately more likely to be allergic to them. A study of 10,000 children in the UK, reported earlier this year in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical [...]
The only bigger mistake AM1500 could make than putting Mischke on early afternoons would be… to let him go. Way to go, guys.
UPDATE: Mischke apparently liked the daytime hours better, which I can understand. But I still miss the nighttime vibe that only he could provide (and I don’t [...]
“There he is, making his new funny face . And dripping drool all over the place.”
“Want to rhyme some more?”
“I ran out of ’-aces.’” [Pause as child does his scream thingy again.] “Ok, here’s one: can you discipline a child with mace?”
“Not if you spray them in the face.”
[...]Yeah, I’m feeling a little snarky for a lot of reasons, only one of which is political.
But it doesn’t matter much how I feel… how does the business world feel about our President-elect? Let’s check today’s industry news:
AMD lays off 500 people worldwide IBM’s chip unit cuts temp workers Anadigics [...]Via Rand Simberg, by John Hood:
Government is not charity. It is not persuasion, or cooperation, or sharing. Government is a fist, a shove, a gun.
[Surprise surprise, the next sentence is: “Obama either doesn’t understand this, or doesn’t want voters to understand it.”]
[...]For the last couple of weeks, for various work and personal reasons (translation: busy), I have been reading blogs about as much as I have been posting. Which is to say, very very little.
Interestingly enough, I still like the blogs I liked before, and still get enjoyment out of reading [...]
Well, actually not:
That�??s because UW�??s marching band has been banned and won�??t be allowed to perform tonight.
[...]
Nope, the band was suspended indefinitely Friday while allegations of hazing, alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct are investigated.
Although only a small number of band members were involved, longtime director Mike Leckrone told the [...]
Has a biopic of a president ever been made while he was still in office? But I�??m sure the timing is random.
[Why wouldn�??t I be surprised if there was a small, unflattering part�??a guy who can�??t move his arms very well�??added, oh, sometime during the summer?]
[...]From what I can tell via the media, if Barack Obama wins, it will be because we are finally moving into a post-racial era. And if he loses, it will be because we are all a bunch of racists.
Apparently America is sitting in the box, waiting to observe itself. [...]
So today we heroically attempted to stave off the minivan scourge by trading our Chevy Trailblazer for a one-year-older (but much-lower-mileage) Honda Pilot.
The Pilot is very nice and has a lot of bells and whistles the Trailblazer (allegedly considered new when we bought it, but as it turns out [...]
Because all McCain and Obama see are hammers.
See, this is why us right-of-center types didn’t necessarily want McCain to be the nominee. Not that he’s a bad guy, or that he wouldn’t be an outstanding president on some fronts. But he’s a bit dim about the economy:
Oh yeah, it’s on, and they’ve stopped being subtle about it. The AP has decided to do attack pieces on McCain, and the Strib is putting Drudge-like headlines on their front page to enhance the effect:
On ‘The View,’ McCain misstates Palin’s record on earmarks
Republican presidential candidate John McCain on [...]
Strib front page headline: “Palin tries to defend qualifications in interview”
That’s the unbiased press I know and love hate!
It hammers on her alleged inability to handle foreign policy questions, but apart from not being able to spell out the Bush Doctrine, the answers they detail in the article were [...]
...to prove the Democrat presidential campaign right.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani added that Palin “has more executive experience than the entire Democratic ticket,” which includes Obama and Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden, a veteran of more than three decades in the Senate.
So there! [whisper [...]
I never thought I would write that line, but I have to admit I was wrong. I don’t believe I ever expressed it in writing, but I personally thought that Hillary and her supporters were wrong in thinking that the media was anti-female(-politician, at least).
But I was wrong. Seeing [...]
But probably 100% true (emphasis mine):
The reason we’ve broken with tradition, or perhaps reverted to a deeper tradition, is not because we oppose sex education, or because we think their egos are too tender for public schools. It’s because we can do a superior job of educating our children. [...]
...who prefers death and destruction to my opponents having a good day.”
Wait, that’s not what he said? Well, it’s what I heard.
(via Drudge)
[...]Who prefers death and destruction to my opponents having a good day.
Wait, that’s not what he said? Well, it’s what I heard.
(via Drudge)
[...]Sideline reporters tend to be among the lowest forms of life in the broadcast world, but the jackass doing the reporting for NBC’s Olympic track and field coverage deserves special mention as the lowest of the low.
“You just got disqualified. Tell me how you feel.”
“You dropped the baton. How could [...]
From Drudge comes this day-brightener:
Nearly half of Americans (47%) believe the government should require all radio and television stations to offer equal amounts of conservative and liberal political commentary, but they draw the line at imposing that same requirement on the Internet.
Actually, an awful lot of them don’t:
But [...]
Good news on the local radio front: for at least one week, it looks like we’ll escape the clutches of Michael “Trojan Horse” Savage on our radio dials. NARN will be broadcasting from the RNC, saving us from the usual bad ranting with good bumper music.
[...]Good news on the local radio front: for at least one week, it looks like we’ll escape the clutches of Michael “Trojan Horse” Savage on our radio dials. NARN will be broadcasting from the RNC, saving us from the usual bad ranting with good bumper music.
[...]You know what makes a reasonably-pressurized job seem calm, laid back, even relaxing? Spending the morning at various doctors’ offices for a bunch of (planned, so don’t worry) tests on a 2-year old and on a 5-month-old. (And then spending most of that time chasing the 2-year-old around trying to [...]
You know what makes a reasonably-pressurized job seem calm, laid back, even relaxing? Spending the morning at various doctors’ offices for a bunch of (planned, so don’t worry) tests on a 2-year old and on a 5-month-old. (And then spending most of that time chasing the 2-year-old around trying to [...]
The Brewers are making a playoff push.
How long has it been since you could say that? 15 years? It’s been 26 years since they actually made it that far. It’s nice to think they’ve got a chance, and even nicer that the club is actually making the attempt.
Having seen [...]
If one person manages to get past that slimy smarmy guy’s Googlebombs and see this entry, then it’s worth writing:
The ”$50k a month” business “system” (or whatever Ty Coughlin is calling it on your radio station) may not be a scam—as in illegal—but it is a pyramid-like MLM scheme.
As [...]
It’s pretty rare for someone to link to Instapundit for saying something well rather than just featuring the right link, but this bears repeating and spreading around:
...I must disagree with charges that McCain is being “Swift Boated.” For this to be a “Swift Boating,” people who stayed at [...]
Chad the Elder, who also lives in District 281, almost seems surprised that the district has brought the massive levy referendum back for this fall.
But he has some good advice:
...residents of District 281 should get their pitchforks and torches ready. The beast is back.
(He’s being metaphorical, of [...]
Now that’s entertainment
I can’t remember where I read it, but someone recently wrote that an engineering reality TV show would be boring, just meetings and people staring at computers.
That could be partly true—it depends on the business they’re in; NASA engineering documentaries can be pretty interesting, and the business [...]
We had paper spam hand-delivered to our front porch today from “our” state rep, Sandy Peterson. Yippee.
Of course she’s tooting her own horn on it, but under the “legislative accomplishments” [SNORT] on the card was one interesting bullet point:
Balanced the state budget without raising taxes.
Really. Ooooooookay…
Sure about that, [...]
We had paper spam hand-delivered to our front porch today from “our” state rep, Sandy Peterson. Yippee.
Of course she’s tooting her own horn on it, but under the “legislative accomplishments” [SNORT] on the card was one interesting bullet point:
Balanced the state budget without raising taxes.
Really. Ooooooookay…
Sure about that, [...]
Sorry about that, but the server that hosts this site had a major meltdown about 3 days ago, and recovering the data from multiple damaged disks was apparently quite the chore. Luckily I didn’t change much over the last month or so, so the backups are good enough for me. [...]
I already harassed a few targets good friends about this, but if you ever feel the need to put your thumb in the eye of the Food Police—and laugh a whole lot in the process—then you need to go buy the updated version of Eat What You Want and [...]
Sorry about that, but the server that hosts this site had a major meltdown about 3 days ago, and recovering the data from multiple damaged disks was apparently quite the chore. Luckily I didn’t change much over the last month or so, so the backups are good enough for me. [...]
Well this is a bit late, but I have a good excuse; we spent the latter part of the week scrambling to recover from having something stolen from us (in a particularly disturbing way). So, better late than never, here’s this week’s haul:
OK, here’s today’s best guess at what’s going to be in the box (i.e. what survived the flooding):
OK, here’s today’s best guess at what’s going to be in the box (i.e. what survived the flooding):
Any suggestions? (And thanks for the previous suggestion, Jen!)
[...]OK, here’s today’s best guess at what’s going to be in the box (i.e. what survived the flooding):
Any suggestions? (And thanks for the previous suggestion, Jen!)
[...]Chad The Elder misses PowerPoint. Seriously.
My slight anti-Microsoft bias aside, I think it depends on the type of information being presented, but I’d agree that Powerpoint is usually better than nothing. I’ve had several professors who could have benefited from the organization that PPT tries to force [...]
Just found out last night—months late, of course—that Janet Kagan died. One of the most underrated SF authors out there, she was very prolific and popular in the short SF world in the early 90s, when I was really getting into short fiction.
Her book Mirabile is a bit [...]
Apparently, mainstream media types will occasionally let economic truths slip through the hype they publish about “greedy oil corporations.” For the record:
The oil market is fickle, he said. Previous crashes drove the rigs out of North Dakota for years, leaving only the wheat, and while sipping on a late-afternoon [...]
University Ave. to become an unreachable ghost-town?
It’s not decided yet, but there aren’t all that many choices here. If I owned a business that relies on traffic along University being able to reach you, I’d get the hell out of there ASAP. Oh, there might be some foot traffic [...]
This trial is yet more evidence that supports my, er, lack of support for “progressive” politicians.
It’s fascinating, in the same way that an approaching train is to the person tied to the tracks.
UPDATE: Another object lesson in progressivism on a completely different topic.
UPDATE and BUMP: [...]
Not so well met
Storms on Saturday = cleanup on Sunday. We got hit with about an inch of hail that ranged from dime to near-half-dollar size on Saturday night, and it made quite the mess. Our big maple got hit worst; it lost half its leaves and about 1/3 of [...]
Not so well met
Storms on Saturday = cleanup on Sunday. We got hit with about an inch of hail that ranged from dime to near-half-dollar size on Saturday night, and it made quite the mess. Our big maple got hit worst; it lost half its leaves and about 1/3 of [...]
Not so well met
Storms on Saturday = cleanup on Sunday. We got hit with about an inch of hail that ranged from dime to near-half-dollar size on Saturday night, and it made quite the mess. Our big maple got hit worst; it lost half its leaves and about 1/3 of [...]
Geez, I wake up with a scratchy throat, and 12 hours later I’m sitting there feeling like somebody went after me with a hammer. The only thing that doesn’t hurt is my head, which appears to be swimming in its own heated pool.
Time for bed, I’d say. Rereading The [...]
No pictures this time, but I smoked a small brisket yesterday to open up the barbecue season.
I still have problems keeping the heat up in the smoker cabinet, even with the electric hot plate assisting. I’m thinking that insulation is in order. Of course, I’ve been thinking that for [...]
The only conclusion I can reach
Yet another year has passed without a specialized Google logo for Memorial Day. Look it up yourself (I’d say “google it,” but I’m a little ticked at them at the moment). They’ve given a very lame excuse for this in the past, in the [...]
The only conclusion I can reach
Yet another year has passed without a specialized Google logo for Memorial Day. Look it up yourself (I?d say ?google it,? but I?m a little ticked at them at the moment). They?ve given a very lame excuse for this in the past, in the [...]
I?m sure Ace is completely wrong about this:
One of InstaPundit?s readers made a brilliant point. During WWII, Japan?s government and media always claimed Japan was winning every single battle. But careful listeners could divine the way the War in the Pacific was really going by noting the locations of [...]
Im sure Ace is completely wrong about this:
One of InstaPundits readers made a brilliant point. During WWII, Japans government and media always claimed Japan was winning every single battle. But careful listeners could divine the way the War in the Pacific was really going by noting the locations of [...]
Im sure Ace is completely wrong about this:
One of InstaPundits readers made a brilliant point. During WWII, Japans government and media always claimed Japan was winning every single battle. But careful listeners could divine the way the War in the Pacific was really going by noting the locations of [...]
Happy birthday, Dad!
[...]Today begins the great experiment, with two boys in day care?a private home, not a center?3 days of the week, and MLW home with them the other two days. (That means we finally have the majority of days with our kids, not just hours!) And the only burp was that [...]
Today begins the great experiment, with two boys in day carea private home, not a center3 days of the week, and MLW home with them the other two days. (That means we finally have the majority of days with our kids, not just hours!) And the only burp was that [...]
KSTP-TV tonight: HD: Violations at hospital where newborn was burned
The Star Tribune: Probe finds minor violations but none related to fire that hurt baby at Mercy
As MLW pointed out, if you didn?t think critically about the violations listed in the TV news report?and I have a feeling lots [...]
Ever since I started watching Good Eats lo these many years ago, I?ve been searching around for something Alton Brown keeps claiming should be available in every decent-sized city: a restaurant supply store that?s open to the public.
There should be one in the Warehouse District in Minneapolis, but [...]
KSTP-TV tonight: HD: Violations at hospital where newborn was burned
The Star Tribune: Probe finds minor violations but none related to fire that hurt baby at Mercy
As MLW pointed out, if you didnt think critically about the violations listed in the TV news reportand I have a feeling lots [...]
Ever since I started watching Good Eats lo these many years ago, Ive been searching around for something Alton Brown keeps claiming should be available in every decent-sized city: a restaurant supply store thats open to the public.
There should be one in the Warehouse District in Minneapolis, but [...]
In case you were wondering why the economic pressure to have a two-income family is so strong nowadays, Todd Zywicki @ Volokh has a theory:
To put this in perspective, the increase in tax obligations [between the 1970s and now] is over three times as large as the increase [...]
While MLW was taking a well-earned nap and I was staining a closet door in the basement this afternoon, someone took a shot at our house. [No, this isn?t a Murderapolis story?]
Not that anyone knew what happened at the time; MLW heard glass breaking, but didn?t find the broken window [...]
Parallel killers? Really? It almost sounds too conspiracy-theory-like to believe. [Excepting the true conspiracy theorists, of course, who believe ten stranger things before breakfast.]
[...]Ever since I started watching Good Eats lo these many years ago, Ive been searching around for something Alton Brown keeps claiming should be available in every decent-sized city: a restaurant supply store thats open to the public.
There should be one in the Warehouse District in Minneapolis, but [...]
Google just implemented an idea I had several years ago (and somewhere there are contest entry documents to prove it): map-based traffic predictions (click on ?Traffic? and then ?Change? to set the day and time)
At least partially; to fully match my idea, they?d also have to predict the [...]
I love popcorn. Not movie popcorn [Well, OK, once in a while], but popcorn you pop at home. Air popper or oil-based popper, it doesnt matter much to me, as long as theres a little salt (butter is optional). Caramel corn is outstanding, but too often its just sweet without [...]
I love popcorn. Not movie popcorn [Well, OK, once in a while], but popcorn you pop at home. Air popper or oil-based popper, it doesnt matter much to me, as long as theres a little salt (butter is optional). Caramel corn is outstanding, but too often its just sweet without [...]
As you may have noticed, I have an honest-to-God advertiser now. [Oh yeah, after 6 years of this Im finally seeing some revenue. At this rate, Ill be in the black by 2106!]
Its a companycalled Popcornopolis,that sells gourmet popcorn in many (many) flavors. As part of the deal, we [...]
No generalization is 100% true, right? So why is it that the conclusion in this statement fits the data so well?
A naturalist is someone who is interested in and knows a lot about the natural world. An environmentalist is someone who hates people.
Do you ever wonder why so many [...]
As you may have noticed, I have an honest-to-God advertiser now. [Oh yeah, after 6 years of this Im finally seeing some revenue. At this rate, Ill be in the black by 2106!]
Its a companycalled Popcornopolis,that sells gourmet popcorn in many (many) flavors. As part of the deal, we [...]
As you may have noticed, I have an honest-to-God advertiser now. [Oh yeah, after 6 years of this Im finally seeing some revenue. At this rate, Ill be in the black by 2106!]
Its a companycalled Popcornopolis,that sells gourmet popcorn in many (many) flavors. As part of the deal, we [...]
No generalization is 100% true, right? So why is it that the conclusion in this statement fits the data so well?
A naturalist is someone who is interested in and knows a lot about the natural world. An environmentalist is someone who hates people.
Do you ever wonder why so many [...]
As you may have noticed, I have an honest-to-God advertiser now. [Oh yeah, after 6 years of this Im finally seeing some revenue. At this rate, Ill be in the black by 2106!]
Its a companycalled Popcornopolis,that sells gourmet popcorn in many (many) flavors. As part of the deal, we [...]
No generalization is 100% true, right? So why is it that the conclusion in this statement fits the data so well?
A naturalist is someone who is interested in and knows a lot about the natural world. An environmentalist is someone who hates people.
Do you ever wonder why so many [...]
Democrats: Central Corridor rail fate is in Pawlentys hands
Kill it. Kill it dead.
Yeah, a train between Mpls and St. Paul would be great. But its too expensive and far too disruptive. I keep saying: build 10 different dedicated busways with the billion dollars [No, Im not exaggerating] it [...]
This means something
I feel happy, because this is back in our driveway:
I dont know when well get to use it, but for right now I just dont care.
[...]A friend and reader recently lost his father. I dont have a clue how to say this, but Todd, we are truly sorry, and our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. If theres anything at all we can do, please let us know.
[...]
