Archive for August, 2005
Whut It Dew
Time for a few days off for time with friends and family. Nothing new here until Tuesday when we’ll be back in full force on new servers that should be able to better able to handle the traffic. In our absence, do yourself a favor and check out some of the links to the right, [...]
The Major Labels vs. Apple…Again
Five hundred million. Half a billion. Or, if you’re the numerical sort, 500,000,000. That’s the number of digital songs that Apple Computer has sold through it’s iTunes Music Store in a little over two years. Considering that such a gigantic number represents a completely legal music downloading system where record labels get about 70 cents [...]
Jesusland Among the Palmettos
Not long after John Kerry lost his Presidential campaign to George Bush, a picture circulated around the internet where all the Bush-voting red states were renamed “Jesusland” and the blue states were incorporated into the United States of Canada. It really wasn’t all that funny, but a lot of demoralized Kerry-voters were searching for something [...]
Clark Blogging
General Wesley Clark is blogging all this week at TPMCafe’s Table For One. Bookmark it. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
The Last Throes: Resolve and Sacrifice
When the wheels come off, it’s always the talking points that suffer. Top U.S. officer faults leaders on terrorism war stakes (Reuters): The top U.S. military officer faulted U.S. political leaders on Friday for failing to get across what he portrayed as the huge stakes in Iraq and elsewhere in the U.S.-declared global war on [...]
Of All People to Be Confused
I wasn’t exactly a stellar student at the Catholic high school I attended (when I attended), but if memory serves (a big if), the Pope is the infallible leader of the church. So why is it that he can’t tell the difference between God and crucifixes? Pope Benedict XVI on Monday [8/15] encouraged the display [...]
Constitutional Atrocities
Sunnis Reject Draft of Iraqi Constitution (AP): The 15 members of the Sunni panel said they rejected the document because of disagreements over such issues as federalism, Iraq’s identity and references to Saddam Hussein‘s Sunni-dominated Baath Party. The country’s parliament speaker, Hajim al-Hassani, a Sunni Arab who was not on the negotiating panel, said he [...]
Unacceptable
This is what happens when you don’t play ball: A top Army contracting official who criticized a large, noncompetitive contract with the Halliburton Company for work in Iraq was demoted Saturday for what the Army called poor job performance. The official, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, has worked in military procurement for 20 years and for the [...]
President of All the People
No one’s asking him to run nude in the Bay-to-Breakers, but come on: Now in the fifth year of his presidency, Bush has yet to set a foot in the city that was home to his childhood baseball idol, Willie Mays, and shows no inclination to do so. The White House is planning a California [...]
Time Well Spent
They didn’t vote for him. Shorter Arnold Schwarzenegger: If you would just let me win, I could do my job rather than fundraising: “I am not concerned about the polls at all. It’s all about messaging and educating the people, and we will do that the last six, seven weeks of the campaign. It is [...]