Let's get one things straight: we're still losing.
Bruce Reed is positively gleeful as he points out President Bush's low approval rating. He's not alone. In fact, the New York Times has been hammering the point home all month. The trouble with this assessment, of course, is that it's just plain wrong. Don't get me wrong, I think Gilroy goes a bit nuts in his piece, but he's right that all of these rhetorical losses mean very little in terms of political power.Ladies, do you really dig UNIX?
I ran into this shirt on ThinkGeek and it made me wonder: how many of the girls in these action shots actually have a computer running some UNIX or *nix OS? I'm guessing the Google employee probably does. The cute girl holding the O'Reilly book probably does, too. The girl with the stuffed Tux (the penguin) is also a likely candidate. But I'm skeptical of some of the more teenybopper-looking photos. Maybe those girls dig eunuchs. Touché, double-entendre'd shirt, touché.
Rock alert:
I just received an email saying that Lifetime will be playing in San Francisco in January! I definitely don't listen to the same music I listened to in 1998, but you can bet I'll be at that show. Tickets go on sale on the 20th.
Lightning rods are the Devil's work.
There is an interesting op-ed contribution in the New York Times today about how some Americans have always valued "faith" over reason.
Seasonal Colors
Now that I'm skinning my page (this refers to an earlier incarnation of this blog) according to the terror alert level, I'm hoping that the Department of Homeland Security plans to change the terror alert level according to the seasons (that is, the natural seasons, not the electoral ones - another link), because this yellow/orange color suits the fall, but winter is fast approaching and I wouldn't want my page to go out of style.
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