Fear of dissent. I’ve made the assertion before based on personal observation, but more evidence is rolling in. Not only are we apparently becoming more polarized as a nation, but more and more we’re consciously blocking out any news, information, or opinion that doesn’t jive with our own.
The New York Times recently ran a [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Spring miscellanies
Posted in Life on 29 April 2009 | 10 Comments »
Spam update
Posted in Other geekery, tagged spam on 28 April 2009 | 5 Comments »
Here are some of the latest message headers in my Spam box. I swear, some of it is like poetry.
“Here I buy everything that needs me! And advise you.”
“Become more appetent for females.”
“It’s like having a female catcher.” [Huh?]
“Give her heat today!”
“To you already is there a lot of years? It to love a [...]
Has the captain let go of the wheel?
Posted in Life on 21 April 2009 | 4 Comments »
While young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrats’ manic obsession to bring down our commander in chief.
Those were the words of Zel Miller, keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention in 2004. Miller was only [...]
My daughter the photographer
Posted in Other geekery on 17 April 2009 | 2 Comments »
Hand a digital camera to a three-year-old and you can never be sure what will happen. I let my daughter run around the house the other day with my old camera and the results were quite amusing. Of course at that age she lacks the adequate hand-eye-coordination to properly compose her shots, but some of [...]
Opening Day
Posted in Life on 6 April 2009 | 8 Comments »
If you’re not from Cincinnati you won’t understand.
Today is Opening Day. And while the start of a new season is always exciting for all baseball fans, Opening Day is different.
In Cincinnati, Opening Day is a holiday. As the first ever professional baseball franchise takes the field for the first time each year, parades, [...]
For everything else…
Posted in Life on 3 April 2009 | 3 Comments »
Video iPod from the Apple Store: $249.
Ten songs from iTunes: $9.99.
Watching Obama-bashers getting unhinged and calling it a “gift gaffe” only to learn that The Queen specifically requested a Video Ipod: Priceless.
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