Archive for June, 2007
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Pandas Is Smart
Actually, they’re cute and smart.
That’s a dangerous combination.
If you don’t believe me, just watch these two stage a prison break in China.
They’re related to raccoons, you know.
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#86)
South Carolina man mistakes a bale of straw for a stricken woman and gives it CPR.
Police believe that he had been drinking.
Do you think?
The 39-year-old male had called Hilton Head deputies at 1:49 a.m., saying he had just tried to perform CPR on a dead woman. When the officers arrived, they observed him talking [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in the Apocalypse by ME
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Caption This Friday
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
Vox Bloguli
What’s been happening this week on a few of the blogs I read…
Pax Fellowship — Activist Judges (Warning: real-live law professors discussing “Bong Hits 4 Jesus”)
Political Cartel — Hein v. Freedom From Religion
The Washington Post — Angler: The Dick Cheney Presidency
ThinkProgess — The Structural Imbalance of Talk Radio
Political Wire — Second Quarter Fundraising Expectations
4 Comments » - Posted in vox bloguli by ME
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Blog Reader’s Survey
I’m going to close the BlogAds Reader’s Survey after this weekend.
If you are interested in participating, you can get to it from this page. It’s been at the top of my weblog for some time and I’m ready to look at the results.
The survey has collected some interesting demographic data on users of my [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in blogging, surveys by ME
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Seriously, Dick
Is Vice-president Dick Cheney part of the executive branch or not?
Cheney’s office argues that by merit of the fact that he is president of the Senate that he is not technically an Article II institution.
I have to wonder if he knows better.
All of this is the result of Cheney’s on-going fight to resist oversight of [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Dick Cheney, governance by ME
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Global Image
Like the president, the United States of American has an image problem around the world.
I suspect that there is a correlation.
In a 47-nation survey by the non-partisan Pew Global Attitudes Project finds that global confidence in US leadership is declining. Likewise, the Chinese have slipped in terms of how much nations respect their leadership. [...]
12 Comments » - Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, surveys by ME
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Wednesday Weigh-in (Week 12)
It was the best of weeks, it was the worst of weeks…
I lost my bike, but the good news is that I also lost some more weight. My original plan was to give up walking 4-5 miles a day for or biking 10-12 miles each day this week but that was pure hubris. [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in weight loss by ME
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Last Blog Make-over and Open Thread
This is (hopefully) the last make-over my blog will ever receive.
I’ve got a new banner photo — that’s my bookshelf here in my dorm room at Hendrix College in Conway. I usually bring more books with me to Governor’s School but it occurred to me last year that they’ve got a pretty good library [...]
14 Comments » - Posted in blogging, general by ME
Monday, June 25th, 2007
Another Blow to Student Free Speech
Forget about what I said back in March — Morse v. Frederick (Bong Hits 4 Jesus) was not a slam-dunk for the defense plaintiffs.
In a 6-3 decision today, the US Supreme Court ruled that student speech can be limited even when it is patently ridiculous and takes place away from school property.
I’ve said it before [...]
