Aug 13 2005
Although our last scheduled car payment wasn’t until November, Katherine and I went ahead and paid off the remainder of our car loan last week….making our lovely 2002 Subaru WRX offically ours! This will offically be the first non-crappy car I’ve owned pretty much ever. (I did at one point have an ’85 Toyota LandCruiser that was dear to my heart, but it had almost 100K on it by the time I bought it.)
Aug 12 2005
Pro-life types are all fire worked up over a web animation produced by Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (San Francisco) that supposedly features a pro-choice superhero who kills protesters outside abortion clinics, portrays Christians as Snidely Whiplash-types, and depicts pro-life types as overall-wearing hillbilly zombies. I read about some of this and assumed that likely such a cartoon really didn’t exist… or at the very least these claims were highly exagerated. But, surprisingly, it’s all true…and pretty hilarious. I predict that the movie will be taken offline soon, but it’s still there as of this morning:
Aug 12 2005
Annoying pest/wannabe reporter/mediocre cartoonist Ted Rall has surprisingly issued a “retraction” of the following “cartoon.” I use quotations in the first case, because I’m not sure that one can really retract a cartoon, and in the second case because the item in question doesn’t seem to be so much a cartoon as simply a graphical mouthpiece for Rall himself. The lesson: If you’ve decided to be a reporter instead of a cartoonist, you need to start fact checking…you know, like real reporters do.
Aug 11 2005
NPR : Bush: Leaving Iraq Now Would Be ‘Mistake’
I’m glad that the president has finally acknowleged Cindy Sheehan—protesting mother of a soldier killed in Iraq who’s now camping outside the W’s ranch—but when will he address the growing problem of showboating metal bassist Billy Sheehan?!
Aug 11 2005
Here’s another character: Gen. Nobile, shown here far older than he will ever appear in the book.
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