• Uncategorical Weirdness

    Bandwidth Hogs

    my husband David was wondering at the bandwidth usage around here. I took a look at my stats page (he’s the text-based log guy, I’m the GUI-fied stats girl) and did a little Googling around: Lost in Technophilia : Bye bye news.allresearch.com You Are So Banned! Corporate America Is Reading Your Blog I’m thinking I want them banned, too: news.allresearch.com ? 614 614 2.48 MB 30 Sep 2004 – 23:11 sp1.allresearch.com ? 26 26 60.54 KB 14 Sep 2004 – 14:08 news.allresearch.com ? 1224 1224 5.06 MB 31 Oct 2004 – 23:04 news.allresearch.com ? 247 247 1.43 MB 04 Nov…

  • Funnies

    Canada Blue

    For those of you dreaming of a White Christmas, you could have one every year if the Blue states seceded and joined Canada. In exchange, they get Maui Canada, Disney Canada, and a whole lot more hockey teams. They’re not sure about the football teams, since there’d be some compromise involved. Click the image for the full story. Hey, it could work. UPDATE: The folks over at Salon. com have posted some tips on emigrating, but that seems a bit extreme. At least our Canadian friends (and more than a few Australian ones as well) have been supportive (ooh la…

  • Childfreedom

    Acts of Extremely Civil Disobedience

    I don’t happen to think our leaders’ ideal republic has a lot of room for overeducated lefty feminist childfree gay-friendly non-religious Spanish-speaking ex-Jewish librarians, either. I’m with you, Dorothea – right up to the Spanish-speaking part, and I’m quite friendly with the final two constituencies, too. And I’m definitely in the “It’s a womb, not a clown car” club. I saw a Discovery/Health show on the Duggars brood the other night – the combination of fundamentalism with fecundity gave me the heebie geebies just before the election, so it was just great timing. Oddly enough, I have some rooibos tea…

  • Mini-Posts

    It’s A Health Issue

    BBC NEWS | Health | Unsafe abortions ‘kill thousands’ Something to remember as a change in the Supreme Court seems inevitable: maybe we need to re-think our abortion-rights strategery. It’s a privacy issue, but far more importantly, it’s a health and longevity issue. And maybe we need to take back the term “abortion” and un-demonize it, too.

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Wonky Commentary

    I know that all 2 of you have been complaining about the comments being slow or funky. So my husband David did some tinkering under the hood, and it should improve performance. Theoretically. If you were to bother to say anything. Heh.