Archive for July, 2004

who are they talking about?

“Internet collapses under sheer weight of baby pictures.”

robot circumcision

This is very, very funny.

cell phone etiquette

Sprint did a survey on cell phone etiquette recently—you can read about the results here. Turns out almost everybody thinks that other people are rude when using cell phones—talking loudly in public, etc.—but nobody thinks that they are rude using their cell. Here’s the relevant bit:

foreign policy

It is very much a vital and open question at the moment: what will a John Kerry foreign policy look like? More broadly: what should it look like?
I waver on these questions, and don’t find much to agree with in either the far right or the “anti-imperialist” etc. far left. Today I stumbled [...]

defection

Admittedly I’m not exactly tapped into mainline right wing thinking, but just from reading around it sounds to me like lots of folks on the right are jumping off the Bush bandwagon. I’m thinking of libertarians, who are disappointed with his disastrous fiscal policy, and hawks, who are disappointed with his disastrous handling of [...]

10 months old

Mom sent this out with the Daily Grip yesterday, and I thought it was sweet so I’m posting it here (she doesn’t, despite occasional nagging from me, post to the Grip Diaries much… meaning at all).
Grip is 10 months old today and I have no idea where the time has gone. He seems [...]