Entries from September 2007
Back From Deutschland
It interests me, the interpretation of one’s first post back from vacation, and what that might say about his preoccupations while abroad. I’ve filed this entry under “Food”.
The Joy of Curmudgeonry - Advocates of Violence
It is becoming more common to hear a man claim that in no circumstance would he be an [...]
Categories: Food
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CXLVI
Wheat & Weeds - Soldiers Are The Funniest
Categories: War and Peace
Holding Me Accountable for Knowing America’s History and Institutions
Damn:
ISI - Civics Quiz
You answered 49 out of 60 correctly — 81.67 % Average score for this quiz during September: 74.3% Average score since September 18, 2007: 74.3%
At least I’m above average. Apparently I’m crap on battles, philosophers, and economics. And trusting my instincts while remembering Bubblehead’s story about [...]
Categories: History
Mustered Out
Macleans - G. I wonder why the revamp, Joe In the Hollywood version, the iconic soldier has lost all connection to the U.S. military, by Mark Steyn
Who wouldn’t love the American G.I.? He was the citizen soldier — the hapless farmer, the befuddled accountant, the amiable grease monkey, pressed into service to save places [...]
Categories: Entertainment
Now We See the Violence Inherent In the System!
Honestly I’m surprised he didn’t start quoting Monty Python.
At any rate, this article (yes, it did take this long to reach the foreign press):
Times Online - Andrew Meyer, the student who begged: ‘Don’t Tase me bro!’, becomes internet star
(sounds rather positive, no? “Internet star!”) is linked to on the main Times page with:
‘Don’t [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CXLV
Adaptable Tune
A classic:
And, uh, classical:
(We have one of those frothers.)
Curtsy for the later addition to the hits parade: Brett McS.
SFW, audio (obviously) very necessary.
Categories: Entertainment
Sniffle XL
So, I’ve just been whinging on about Americans and their sheep-like willingness to put up with region-encoded DVD players, and Aussie Brett McS tells me that they’re pretty much all region-free in Oz, and then finds this, from Wiki:
“However, region code enforcement has been discussed as a possible violation of WTO free trade [...]
Categories: Entertainment
Quick, Everyone! Stop Doing Whatever It Is You’re Doing and Pretend You’re Always Not Doing It!
Look who’s comin’ to town (but not mine. Hah. Think of the headlines:
“Rioters Loot Starbucks to Protest Pontifical Visit; Globalisation Tomorrow’s die-in ‘Unprecedented’, organizers say”).
Wheat & Weeds - Whatever Shall I Wear?
(My title, because when JPII died, a couple journalists were standing around a TV Studio on Fox, probably, talking about when [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
A Bubblehead in Seattle
Bubblehead’s finally got his trip diary up of his and his two kids’ trip to Seattle for the Penny Arcade Expo last month:
The Stupid Shall Be Punished - Trip Report: Penny Arcade Expo, Seattle
What delightful boys he has. Such discerning tastes.
Update:
Ah yes. It did occur to me to wonder, was the the particular son [...]
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Orange Update
The Times - Orange princess tackles the two Viktors in fight to ‘save the revolution’
The subliminal message was clear: three years on, the revolution of 2004 has been betrayed by weak leadership and an unholy alliance of oligarchs and self-serving ministers. Only Yuliya has kept the Orange faith. Ms Tymoshenko [...]
Categories: Politics
Going Out With a Kerfuffle
Telegraph - When Bobbies are beating it, we’re in trouble. By PC David Copperfield
My real motivation – aside from the chance of an interesting holiday for me and my wife when I flew over for the interviews and tests – was to see if policing was any different in Alberta. And it was, [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Blog News’ums
First and foremost, happy third years go out to Bubblehead, who, as a reward for his maturity and dedication to this little corner of the blogosphere had the rare honour of meeting me in the flesh, and in fact being only the second one of my readers [Update: no! I lied! Third! After RC2 and [...]
Categories: Entertainment
Have I Mentioned Lately How Deeply and Unconditionally I Love Cate Blanchett?
Tim Blair - LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND EFFLUENT
…and believes that leaf blowers “sum up everything that is wrong with the human race”…
ninme sits, stars in her eyes
Categories: Entertainment
English Speakers
Yesterday I found this:
The Times - Dragged to death for helping the British
About a man who came home from the doctor with his wife, where he’d just been hearing from a doctor that they were pregnant, and a few minutes later militia members came and dragged him away beating him up and his body was [...]
Categories: War and Peace
