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FOXnews - Senator Kerry to Skip 2008 Presidential Race

Hey, how’s that libel action against the Swift Boaters going, eh Johnny Boy?

Categories: Politics

I’m making croissant rolls for the neighbors. So I first made a trial batch for myself, and I’m sitting here with my tea, with a clear view into the kitchen, watching the morning light coming in from the kitchen window hit the steam roll against the glass of the oven door.

Pictures will follow. [...]

Categories: Food

Oscar nominations are in again. My picks for this year:

Best Actor: Haven’t seen any of them though I really wanted to see one or two.

Best Supporting Actor: Haven’t seen any of them though I really wanted to see one or two.

Best Actress: Haven’t seen any of them though I really wanted to see one or two.

Best Supporting [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Why, why, why.

The Sunday Times - Tragedy of the truthful immigrant, by Minette Marrin

Compare and contrast, as exam papers used to say, the cases of Mark Coleman and Roberto Malasi. Both are young men from Africa who wish to live permanently in this country, but there the similarity stops. … [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Someone’s coming by for the desk in a little while, so I have to say sayonara to this set-up for a few days. Unless by some miracle I manage to make it so it can be hooked up again, which would have to be on the carpet, which might not be worth it. [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Okay, just read it, and you’ll end it laughing (spoiler alert: in case you care, and you haven’t figured it out already from its ubiquity on the internet (eg Drudge), and you haven’t already seen it, spoilers follow):

The Times - Ah, a nice, clean nuclear strike. Chris Ayres: LA Notebook

The people of the [...]

Categories: Entertainment

The Times - I like traffic lights, but only when they’re dismantled, by Martin Cassini A quick way to free up the roads

What causes traffic jams? That’s easy: too many cars. No, wrong. Think again. What causes much of the congestion on our streets are traffic lights. … As reported in [...]

Categories: Business & Media

People love pointing out that at the end of WWII, Canada had the world’s third largest navy. Here’s another sign that I think they need to reflect upon where they’ve come to:

The Times - Pig farmer admitted killing 49 women, say prosecutors, by James Bone in New York

A Canadian pig farmer on [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Telegraph - Democrat deficits

George Bush is breaking records with his low approval ratings. And, for once, the Democrats have found a couple of appealing candidates. Their two front-runners, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, are eloquent, telegenic and well-liked. Their popularity, however, may prove vaporous; or, to put it another [...]

Categories: Politics

We’re big fans of Ireland, here at ninme, at least as far as its tax policies go. So I always like to make sure I highlight when they’re doing well. Especially when it makes the Brits look silly.

The Telegraph - The joke’s on us

It may not be long before Englishmen start [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Tao of Living in a One Bedroom Apartment

ninme reflects upon minimalism

Categories: Wildcard

Boston Globe - Musings, random & otherwise. By Jeff Jacoby

Senator Edward Kennedy likes to label Iraq “George Bush’s Vietnam,” as he did last week when he introduced legislation to give Congress the final say on troop levels in Iraq. Bush played no role in the fall of South Vietnam and [...]

Categories: History

The Shrine of the Holy Whapping - Not Making It Up

Oh. My. Goodness.

Categories: Art and Literature

Wheat & Weeds - George Washington Made Me Do It

I dunno. I think the political machine would grind to a halt. No one in Washington would have anything to do but stare silently at each other and get important government work done.

Categories: People and Current Events

(Sorry)

CDR Salamander - China’s ASAT: the Operational importance

So… They “used a ballistic missile to destroy a[n] orbiting satellite”? Amazing the things you miss when you only check the front pages of a half dozen or so international news agencies several times a day.

Categories: War and Peace