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Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure "good" government; it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare—most people want to run things but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the "backseat-driver syndrome." -- Robert A. Heinlein


Monday, March 14, 2005


It’s time for a little math

Apparently, some stupid asses have got it into their pointy little heads that if they got 600 million people to jump at an exact moment in time, they can push the Earth into a slightly different orbit, “correcting the problems of Global Warming (TM)”.

Time to plug in a few numbers…


Posted by Drumwaster at 07:11 PM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: Weirdness |

Rick does himself proud

In today’s Round the Reader, Rick shows us a new meme (already promulgated - see below), links up a story about how a DEA agent shot himself in the leg (rather ironically, during a lecture on Gun Safety), how ASV’s Michele is looking for Yankee fans, and finally how the NYTimes is actually admitting a mistake.

Go read.

Posted by Drumwaster at 03:17 PM | (0) Trackbacks
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Goofy Memes

Found as a part of today’s Round the Reader (which I’ll be getting to in just a moment), I present the latest meme to make the rounds.

Enjoy!


Posted by Drumwaster at 03:15 PM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: Internet quizzes |

Busy and Sick

Ever have a 104-degree fever? 

OK...better question.  Have your kids had a 104 fever, and you wondered why they were whining? 

I know.  This crud hasn’t let go of me....so, on to antibiotics.  Better living through chemicals. 

That and this week is St. Patrick’s Day week.  I’m in a bagpipe band, so...again, busy. 

I haven’t been posting, but I have no intention of quitting.  My forced hiatus will end within the next week. 

Unless you start paying me not to post. 

Posted by John Cross at 02:56 PM | (0) Trackbacks
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In other news, water found to be wet

It looks as though the bias by the media is no longer just a theoretical one.

The annual report by a press watchdog that is affiliated with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism said that 36 percent of stories about Bush were negative compared to 12 percent about Kerry, a Massachusetts senator.

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The three network nightly newscasts and public broadcaster PBS tended to be more negative than positive

Best quote:

“It may be that the expectations of the press have sunk enough that they will not sink much further. People are not dismayed by disappointments in the press. They expect them,” the authors of the report said.

Heh.

Posted by Drumwaster at 08:49 AM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: What Liberal Media? |
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