Morning News 6/01/10

 (My brother and sister-in-law had us over for burgers last night. I helped install drywall and felt very butch about the whole thing. Photo attribution below.)

Suckier And Suckier. BP's market value plunges as it becomes clear that they have no idea what they're doing.

Almost Human. SF Chronicle details the thawing of Roy Ashburn.

I Admonish You Sir. UN condemns Israeli attack on blockade runners, after US blocks stronger language.

Bring Me The Head Of Bill Gates. Google ditches Windows because Windows kinda sucks.

(Typical, homemade, north American hamburger photographed by Neal Whitaker.)

Morning News 4/01/10

Happy April everyone!

No more firings under DADT!? Joe My God has a nice summary of this morning's announcement by Sec. of the Army John McHugh. Apparently, it is easier to talk to gay soldiers about the effects of DADT when they don't have to be afraid of being fired under DADT for talking about the effects of being gay under the policy. (Do you follow me?)

Well, I live in the White House with my wife, two daughters and my mother-in-law. President Obama fills out his census form on Census Day.

Google changes name to "Topeka" (in honor of April Fool's Day) proposes a "text-only" version of Youtube.

Constance McMillen will be able to attend the private prom in a tux with her girlfriend.

(Photo titled: "half eaten" by Sarah Marriage is an image of peanut butter fudge covered with ganache, in honor of my first true story posting "the 675 pound mixer of doom.")

Saturday Morning News 3/20/10

The Pope: Take a letter, Maria. The Irish group One in Four deeply disappointed, yet not surprised by the Pope's Letter to Catholics in Ireland, regarding the systematic cover up of child sex abuse in that country. I was almost pleased with part of the letter that read:

"In particular, there was a well-intentioned but misguided tendency to avoid penal approaches to canonically irregular situations."

However, the context of that statement implies that the real problem was the rapid rate of secular change in society and a "misinterpretation" of Vatican II.

I'm going to have to side with those who are disappointed with the Pope.


I wish I had a Youtube clip for this. Viacom is suing Google's Youtube because unsealed court documents suggest that Google may have been aware that they were profiting off of pirated material. Oh, here's a Youtube clip for this:



So many nice things we could have picked up cheap... Greece may not be going out of business just yet. But stay tuned.

Aside to all you people out there who crave a heroic pet story. Looking for such a story on Google News, I typed in "Dog saves..." and got a drop down menu including such juicy options as, "Dog saves boy/missing girl/owner/little girl/boy from cougar attack..." on and on. I was offered a veritable cornucopia of heroic dogs from which I could choose. But I wanted a cat story, so I typed in "Cat saves..."

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So I'm going to have to make something up:

Heroic cat saves owner from heart attack by napping, encouraging master to follow her example.