Home Again

Just a few bits and pieces this evening, as my bride is home again:
1) I was very disappointed with 1408, after reading a couple of reviews that cast it as the scariest movie ever. I suppose if you’re into the type of horror flick that employs creepy music to keep you nervous and loud [...]

Let’s see

Larry Johnson, writing about the London Police’s quick reactions at Daily Kos:
The fact that “officers courageously disabled the trigger by hand” coupled with the report of the smoke in the car leads me to believe that the mad London “bomber” tried to construct a Molotov cocktail of sorts and lit a cloth fuze. Fortunately [...]

Home Alone draws to a close

Well, there you have it. I’ll be picking my wife, her mother, and my daughter up tonight at 11PM, and thus ends this week long edition of Home Alone. It’s been fun, although I have missed everyone, and am ready for them to come home and brighten my life again.
I hope you all [...]

Chris Benoit

Despite your agenda, AMA, Republicans, and Democrats, Chris Benoit’s crimes of this past weekend can’t be blamed on Anabolic / Androgenic Steroids (AAS).
I know, I know…you’ve all heard the horror stories about teh Roid Rage, but really, let’s consider who it is you’ve heard them from (1986, 1990, 2004). Besides the fact that this [...]

Joe Lieberman: The netroots’ Great Satan

If any Democratic politician of this age is bound for the history books, it’s Joe Lieberman (I-CT). Yeah, Senator Lieberman has an I after his name on the Senate rolls these days, due to a frenetic effort on the part of the national netroots to displace him from his Senate seat, but he’s one [...]

The other way around, I think

Glenn Reynolds posts:
REID AND PELOSI, having suckered Bush into angering his coalition and weakening himself with the immigration bill, are trying again to force a withdrawal from Iraq.
I don’t think the president needed any suckering on the immigration bill…I think he planned to do the suckering himself (with aid from Teddy Kennedy, John McCain, Jon [...]

Andy McCarthy: We’ll rue the day

In a post commenting on Lugar’s recent defection from Bush’s policies, Andy McCarthy (who has had quite more experience with jihadists than your typical blogger) notes:
I am not a fan of how the war has been directed, and I believe expending our time and effort on the democracy project rather than on defeating our enemies [...]

Who listens to the Freepers anyway?

Seriously. What impact have the freepers had on elections or policy since their heyday with Lucianne Goldberg and Rush Limbaugh?
And really, substitute DU’ers for freepers and George W. Bush for Bill Clinton in this post, and you could come to quite different conclusions regarding who are the “loud and wrong quarter of the country”.
We [...]

Wreck

First of all, I’d like to apologize to you all for the lightness of posting during daylight hours. In blogging terms, I have a lame excuse: I’m deeply involved in coding a low-level serial interface to an infrared sensor, and since I haven’t cut code myself for three or four months now, it’s proving [...]

Something stinks in D.C.

The GOP leadership seems bound and determined to spend the next twenty years or so wandering in the wilderness. The shenanigans surrounding this travesty of an immigration bill are bad enough on their own, but how bloody stupid is it to give Harry Reid an opportunity to put all of his rotten eggs in [...]