• Clan: McTiVo - Politics, Schmolitics

    Daily O’Donnell: I Dabbled Into Witchcraft

    We watched Real Time with Bill Maher last night and enjoyed this clip from the 90’s “Politically Incorrect” show Maher used to have. Turns out he and Christine O’Donnell go back a ways, and she’s always been a little… odd in her beliefs. And this is the person that Delaware conservatives want representing them? Seriously? Of course, no one was at their best in the era of big mall hair, but it’s really hard to imagine this person actually formulating policy as an actual adult. Via Daily Kos: DE-Sen: O’Donnell: “I dabbled into witchcraft”

  • Food, Glorious Food

    Loose PG Tips Floats Ships

    Yeah, I can be fairly serious about tea. Not cha-no-yu serious, or High Tea at the Empress serious, but serious enough to taste the difference between Twining’s Irish Breakfast (loose tea, comes in a green tin smelling gloriously smokey) and Twining’s Irish Breakfast (tea bags, tastes like it was strained through old gym socks). Problem was, I can’t always remember where I’ve found the Twining’s in the Tin. Recently, I ran out, and had to resort to some tea bags. Something’s gone wrong with Twining’s bagged tea, as far as I’m concerned; it used to be that there was not…

  • Funnies - Hot Off The Presses

    Mind The Badger- British Workmen Paint Road Lines Around Dead Mammal

    BBC News – Hampshire workmen paint white lines around dead badger. Hampshire workmen paint white lines around dead badger The dead badger has been removed and the lines will be painted Workmen painting white lines on a road left a gap for a dead badger because they said it was not their responsibility to move it. The animal had been killed about a week before on the A338 near Downton, on the Hampshire-Wiltshire border. Hampshire County Council said the workers did what they thought “was best” because it is the district council’s job to remove carcasses. The badger has now…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: September 11th – September 15th

    Squirrels don rattlesnake perfume to avoid harm | MNN – Mother Nature Network Mother Cat Adopts Baby Squirrel | Leake County Mississippi How to give an opossum a "proper pedicure" – Boing Boing yes, there is a Boddhisatva Squirrel PA Homeland Security gave names of anti-drill activists to drilling company – Boing Boing Suddenly, squirrels are everywhere! 10 Influential Albums (Crosswalks to Nowhere) How to make Photographs Vintage – Gimpology: GIMP Tutorials and resources for the GIMP Play audio painlessly with WordPress Audio Player | WPCandy Hoarders (A&E) – TWoP Forums

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2010-09-12

    "@" spammers, kindly ESAD. Thank you. # RT @scottagunn "…Tune in to hear the whole Bible read out loud this weekend. www.christchurchlincoln.org." #ecusa #welcome # I love Zoidberg. Hurray! #(/)o,,,o(/) # Violent protests over schoolbooks in 1974 were just the first salvo in the culture wars. Race was the catalyst. http://is.gd/eXxb8 # I've heard "The Great Textbook War" before. Multiculturalism became a fightin' word. #textbookwar # A fundamentalist preacher's wife objected to bad grammar in textbooks at education board meeting, became a culture censor. #textbookwar # These are all recordings of the actual meetings, with later voiceovers by Mrs Moore,…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: September 5th – September 11th

    The Dominionists: Christian Fanatics Who Want To Save The World By Destroying It « Shoq Value CIA confirms Bush lied about WMDs Osama died peacefully, FOX never pulled the report of his death? Last rites for Churchill’s chapel / Tikanga Pakeha / News / Anglican Taonga – Anglican Taonga The church is not the building, it's the people and how they care for one another and the world. Clarkson Hurt By Stig’s Actions Schadenfruede's a bitch, Jeremy. 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Quran Burning: Protest By Tossing Bibles On The Pile?

    Just pondering what “Pastor” “Doctor” Terry Jones would do if shortly before he lights off his pile of Qurans, protestors tossed Bibles or pocket New Testaments on it to protect their fellow sacred texts? Jones would have to stop to gather them up. Repeat as needed. For best effect, the people tossing Bibles on the pile would need to be Christians, or even clergy in vestments. All different kinds. I’m not suggesting anyone of another faith throw their sacred text on the pile, just imagining how it might play out if it did. I hope that Jones backs down, and…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    The Faces Of The GOP: Statler and Waldorf In The Balcony Just Saying No (Again)

    Funny how a meme I saw mentioned in the comments thread at a liberal blog pops up on the Christian Science Monitor. When the Muppet fits… The GOP’s constant kneejerk rejection of economic ideas simply for the sake of Saying No has as much to do with our current malaise as anything being done wrong in the White House. The newly-minted fiscal conservatives on the Republican side of the aisle, many of whom are themselves responsible for the $3 trillion and counting Iraq War, are like the old men who heckle the Muppet Show from the balcony. Via GOP: The…