Comment is not free

Commenting is rather catch-as-catch-can here at the blog, and I have no idea why. Thought I might have remedied it last night. Thought wrong.
Working on it.

There are no stupid questions…

…but there are plenty of embarrassingly revealing ones, as demonstrated in this Mike Huckabee moment:
I asked Huckabee, who describes himself as the only Republican candidate with a degree in theology, if he considered Mormonism a cult or a religion. ‘‘I think it’s a religion,’’ he said. ‘‘I really don’t know much about it.’’
I was about [...]

Cold consolation

Well, the critical weekend in fantasy football has come and gone, and my tenuous scheme to sneak into fourth place overall in Oliver Willis‘ league - and so enter the championship playoff bracket - went all gang aft a-gley. Eighth place (out of twenty) is where I wound up. Bah!

So it’s the consolation bracket for [...]

A hell of a headline

Good news, sure, but it still makes you pause:
Smoking, drinking, pot use fall among 8th-graders
Grade school is definitely not the place I remember.

Baby, baby

Goddamn, but I love this Jeep Liberty ad.
The wolf rocks.

The story so far (Splotchy’s Story Meme, cont.)

I’ve been tagged! This time with a story meme that originated with Splotchy, passed through many hands, and was delivered to me by Bitty. I am to add to the story and then pass it along to other unsuspecting souls, who must then do the same. Them’s the rules, as kona said earlier. Following Bitty’s [...]

The fantasy football report

I’ve held off from the usual weekly fantasy football rants this season, trying to adopt instead a quieter, more rational approach to the pasttime. Well, I’ve hardly been rational; as is always the case, I have indulged in excess over each week’s matchup, exulting in victory and agonizing over defeat. I’ve just been quiet [...]

The nuclear glass is half empty at the Associated Press

As I glance over the Iran nuclear program headlines being piped to me by the feeds of various news outlets…
USA Today:
US: Iran halted nuke work in 2003
Reuters:
US: Iran halted nuclear weapons program in 2003
BBC World
US report plays down Iran threat
CNN.com
US: Iran not building nukes
McClatchy
US intelligence: Iran apparently halted nuclear weapons drive in 2003
New York Times:
US [...]

Not a real blog post

This blog entry is a test. So is this excerpt. But don’t feel used.

If CNN thought Angie Tucker mattered…

…then you might expect to see a story like this:

But CNN doesn’t.
So you don’t.
(”CNN” text from actual Tulsa World article by Nicole Marshall. Thanks to Shark-fu for her post “Black and Missing…” at Shakesville.)