Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

Republicans in disarray!

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

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For the 47 percent or so of you guys who come here via Firefox, take five minutes to upgrade to Firefox 2.0. Most of the improvements fly under my radar but the built-in spellchecker has the potential to seriously upgrade my web browsing experience. It seems to work like MS Word minus the grammar tool, underlining offending words but sadly leaving homonyms and tortured syntax intact. No doubt that will show up as a module any day now.

Maybe this doesn’t bother most people, but for a borderline pedant like me a minor error can derail the thread of an otherwise insightful comment or post. There is even a neurobiological basis for that, which will form part of a much larger series of posts that I will put up whenever I get around to finishing them.

Consider this a public service announcement. Chat about whatever.

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  1. 1.

    SomeCallMeTim

    I second Tim on the coolness of spell-checker. Now, if only Google can seriously upgrade Documents & Spreadsheets, we will be able to start forward towards the Glorious Tomorrow.

  2. 2.

    Ned Raggett

    Upgraded the other day; it’s a blast. If you’ve not already, grab and activate AdBlock, then download Greasemonkey, then go nuts with the various scripts on offer. Instant improving of the web experience. (My favorite two for Myspace, here and here, turn the whole site into something actually manageable.)

  3. 3.

    The Other Steve

    It’s nice that Firefox took some usability cues from IE7.

    I generally think spell checkers create lazy people. I spell very well without help. My problem is using the wrong word. there instead of their, etc. which spellcheckers don’t catch.

  4. 4.

    Punchy

    Uh, I’d never thought I’d say this…but 5 posts before noon? I got threads coming on me faster than Rush on a Dominican. No wonder I get so little done.

  5. 5.

    tBone

    It’s nice that Firefox took some usability cues from IE7.

    What? Firefox 2.0 does stupid things like hiding the standard menu bar by default? :)

  8. 8.

    BabyJane

    Ill uhpdayt afta th bugs ar wurkd owt. Besids, th lak of a spellcheckr reely haznt ben a problum fer me.

  10. 10.

    jcricket

    In the vein of the Jesus-Party’s support of torture, I bring you a modern reworking of that classic hymnal “Jesus loves the little children”, for today’s Republican to sign to their children when they tuck them in at night:

    Jesus tortures little children
    All the children of the world
    Red and Yellow, Black and Brown
    Jesus renders them from their town
    Jesus tortures the little children of the world.

  11. 11.

    over it

    I downloaded Firefox 2.0 2 days ago.

    I lost my bookmarks. Lost all of my settings. Lost the envelope icon in that bar up top the screen that lets me check my email. Lost use of 3/4 or more of the extensions I use.

    I freely admit that I am a computer ignoramoose…so, I am sure that there was some way to fix some of the problems. I, however, have not the know-how.

    I finally tracked down a copy of 1.5.0.7 (which was actually harder than I thought it would be)…and reloaded it. All is now back to normal. I was in quite the panic though. ;)

    I have upgraded Firefox several times since I started using it 2-3 years ago…..this was, hands down, my worst experience (in fact, my ONLY negative experience with Firefox).

    I love Firefox, and I am sure that I will eventually switch up to 2.0…..but, I am going to wait until the bugs are worked out and the extensions are upgraded for compatability.

    IE is Satan incarnate.

  13. 13.

    Ryan S.

    Consider this a public service anouncement.

    On the browser thing, I recently bought a Sandisk Cruizer Micro 2Gb thumbdrive. It is by far the best 40 bucks I’ve spent in a long time.

    It comes with something called a U3 Launchpad, which you can download programs like firefox and thunderbird to for free, theres also a whole lot of other programs available. Firefox 2 isn’t available yet but I hope it will.

    Its basically like a portable desktop.

  14. 14.

    Gold Star for Robot Boy

    Firefox 2.0 looks cool, but be warned that not all extensions will work after the upgrade. Firefusk, for one.

  16. 16.

    jcricket

    I freely admit that I am a computer ignoramoose…so, I am sure that there was some way to fix some of the problems. I, however, have not the know-how.

    over-it – I’d say wait more than a day after FF 2.0 is out. The extension writers will re-write extensions for compatibility soon enough. And if there are indeed bugs that make you lose bookmarks and setting, those will get fixed. I upgraded from 1.5.0.7 to 2.0 at Release Candidate 2 and haven’t had those same issues. Perhaps there’s something under the Tools Menu inside “Options” that can restore your missing icons and what-not?

  18. 18.

    DecidedFenceSitter

    Yeah, far more technically competent friends have warned me off Firefox 2.0 for the time being. Frequent crashes, bad lag, memory hogs.

    *cuddles with his happy 1.5*

  19. 19.

    ThymeZone

    Cheney endorses simulated drowning
    Financial Times

    Updated: 17 minutes ago
    Dick Cheney, US vice-president, has endorsed the use of “water boarding” for terror suspects and confirmed that the controversial interrogation technique was used on Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the senior al-Qaeda operative now being held at Guantánamo Bay.

    Mr Cheney was responding to a conservative radio interviewer who asked whether water boarding, which involves simulated drowning, was a “no-brainer” if the information it yielded would save American lives. “It’s a no-brainer for me,” Mr Cheney replied.

    I break my self-imposed vow of digital silence for this bulletin.

    Vote for waterboarding, or die.

  20. 20.

    les

    Thanks Tim. FF 2.0 installed fine, kept my old crap, and for those of us among the un-nimble fingered, spell check rocks.

  21. 21.

    Ned Raggett

    Yeah, far more technically competent friends have warned me off Firefox 2.0 for the time being. Frequent crashes, bad lag, memory hogs.

    Honestly haven’t had a single problem with it for two days now. Am running the most recent Mac OS, FWIW.

  23. 23.

    Lee

    rachel, Yes.

    At least from the Menu under ‘Edit’ there is ‘Check Spelling’. It is running me thru the set up of it now (never used it before :)

  24. 24.

    rachel

    Lee,

    Thanks. I was looking under the “tools” menu. I don’t generally feel I need spellcheckers, but sometimes they come in handy.

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