Because the readers demand it. Go Mountaineers! *** Update *** Not college, but the Steelers just knocked the Bengals out of the playoffs for the second time this year. BWAHAHAHA. Sure, it was a disappointing season for the Steelers, and I worry about Cowher leaving, but a quick message to the Bengals fans out there: …
Archives for December 2006
Happy New Year
Just thought I would take a moment and wish you all a Happy New Year, and I hope you enjoy yourselves as you sit back and relax after what has been an eventful year. And it has been eventful- the chaos in Iraq, the tumult of the election year, as well as al lthe domestic …
Saddam Dead
Saddam has been executed: Saddam Hussein, the dictator who led Iraq through three decades of brutality, war and bombast before American forces chased him from his capital city and captured him in a filthy pit near his hometown, was hanged just before dawn Saturday during the morning call to prayer. The final stages for Mr. …
New Year Open Thread
Expect me to be too remote and/or inebriated to blog productively for the next few days, so unless somebody reminds John to write something this will be your primary outlet for expression for awhile. Well, this and the outside world. Also scan the dozens of excellent blogs in our sidebar if things get stir crazy. …
Random Internet Fun
I have no idea how long it will stay there, but for map-o-philes the ad box for Windows Live that sometimes appears in our ad bar is kind of cool. Yesterday I was curious to see how much of California they had loaded into that little ad so I scrolled the window halfway up Canada’s …
George Deutsch Lives
Surprising maybe one catatonic person in outer Mongolia, political appointees won’t let the Park Service tell visitors the geologic age of the Grand Canyon. Apparently this controversial science known as geology conflicts with the unerring truth as-it-is-written in the Koran Bible. Awhile back rightwingers reacted with outrage that I would paint George Deutsch, the anti-big …
I Think We’re A Clone Now
Unsurprisingly the FDA has backed the sale of milk and meat from cloned animals. I can sort of understand the anti-technological reflex that would convince some people to be skeptical about this. God knows how many books, films, comic books and daytime soaps have found deeply disturbing uses for the act of replacing an adult’s …