You may think the guys over at dailykos.com are the cool kids; or you may think they’re a grave threat to the republic. Either way, they’ve got an informative primer on the rules surrounding so-called “holds” in the Senate that’s worth your time.
Another fun list, this one of movie-stealing cameos. Number one is, naturally, Alec Baldwin’s amazing introduction to “Glengarry Glen Ross.”
But what’s a list without a little quibbling? Nothing, that’s what it is. Especially around here. They somehow left out one that, at least in my mind, rivals the Great Mr. Baldwin. That would be [...]
Sorry, no useful and interesting posts today. I’ve got a monster of a head cold and spent the whole day lying down. Maybe tomorrow.
The climb up Watchung Mountain is pretty brutal, but that spiraling downhill on the south end us wicked cool.
The nice people at Entertainment Weekly have been good enough to entertain us with a set of “new classics” top 100 lists. These lists, thank goodness, recognize the inherent bias in the “of all time” lists I’m always griping about and make it clear that these are the top 100 of the last 25 years. [...]
I read your latest column in the Times yesterday. You know, the one where you criticize the moveon.org “Alex” TV spot in which a new mother tells Senator McCain that her young son isn’t going to be available to serve in Iraq.
I notice that you approvingly quote another military mom,
“Does that mean that [...]
Because him dying was so not-funny.
This year’s All-Star Game is being played at Yankee Stadium here in New York, in tribute and farewell to a great park, and the park that hosted the very first such game in 1939.
Just two players from the rosters at that game are still living. This morning’s Times has a nice feature on them. [...]
Was there ever a more tragically wasted opportunity than “The Phantom Menace”? It was on, I was bored, so I watched it. And stayed bored. The cast, the budget, the scenery, the wardrobes — lavish, lavish, lavish and lavish. Jar-Jar Binks was only a symptom, the disease being an inexplicable loss of ability to tell [...]
We did 37 miles and change with the bike club this morning. A perfect day — sunny and warm, but low humidity. Riding through the shady sections was nice and cool.
After the nightmare of trying to move about a gig of photos off to my external drive, and seeing a transfer rate of something like 50K/second (that’s right, 50 Kilobytes per second), I was pleased to see that the long-awaited SP1 was available for installation, and that it was supposed to fix that nagging problem. [...]
At least that’s the impression I came away with. After three sessions today walking the university’s incoming freshmen through their new computers, a couple of trends were apparent. One was, at least half of them already use Firefox. There was also a substantial minority (which is to say, more substantial than the overall market share) [...]
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