• Hot Off The Presses

    Oil Slick: US Navy Protecting Halliburton?

    June 4, 2004 - By 

    A senior navy official said recently that a deployment to the Gulf would send a message. Some how I think this is not the message, but this. Note some of the companies – isn’t “Hunt O’l” a Texan firm? Big Bush fundraisers? Yep. And oh HO, what’s this? Service companies First Exchange Corporation Halliburton TGS-Nopec Veritas Well, that’s just plain old All-American sabre-rattling. No harm in that. And now I think I’ll stroll off to AAR and post it somewhere. Meanwhile, surely the US Navy could do a little humanitarian medical work pro bono in the area? Asking too much?…

  • Funnies - Hot Off The Presses - Radio

    Sorry, My Ass Just Fell Off

    June 4, 2004 - By 

    CHICAGO (Reuters) – For want of a small change to the Illinois election law, President Bush’s name is not supposed to be on the state’s November ballot, but officials said one way or another, it will be there. The glitch arose because the Illinois legislature adjourned earlier this week without extending the Aug. 30 deadline for presidential candidates to be certified by the state elections board and qualify for the Nov. 2 ballot. Oh! Oh! There went my ass again. It keeps falling off today. First, Al Franken gets tortured on his show, because Ann Coulter said it had to…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Site Notes

    June 4, 2004 - By 

    If you want to skip the MT babbling brook o’ technogoo, skip the next paragraph. After a false start, David got the latest version of MT-Blacklist installed. I couldn’t do it myself because an older version was up at MT-Plugins We tried to use a package called MT-Bayesian, but it’s only partly working and the creator doesn’t recommend using it for now (so that’s why no link). Which is okay, since MT-Blacklist can also delete the stuff, just not in as cool a way as the other plugin could have. And it can’t teach itself to ID spam, either –…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Oooh! Shiny Firefly

    June 4, 2004 - By 

    Yes, it was available at Borders. Yes, the counter guy was puzzled; he’d never heard of it. Yes, I grabbed it with a little “glee!” sound. Happy birthday to David. Hope you like the Firefly DVD! (we watched one of the never-aired episodes, “Trash.” Heh. And there are two more. And extras. And then maybe a movie will come out someday. Because they rolled film today.