Massachusetts is drab.
Monthly Archives: June 2005
Long hard slog… with Jennings, Brokaw, etc.
June 29, 2005 – 11:33 am
Roger Simon says:
Speaking of which, some of us are waiting for President Bush’s speech tonight, the one that is intended to put a weary public back on course in Iraq.
I suggest that it is not our presence in Iraq the public is weary of, but rather the relentless media “coverage” of it.
Adventures in Pharmacology
June 17, 2005 – 9:38 am
Part 1 in an occasional series:
9:00 PM - swallow a tab of non-drowsy claritin.
9:15 PM - lids heavy.
9:30 PM - this paragraph sure looks familiar.
9:45 PM - this looks vaguely like a paragraph… not sure, though.
10:00 PM - peel face off book, wipe drool from page, place face back on book.
10:45 PM - embark on [...]
P.S. I’ll find my dog
June 16, 2005 – 11:49 am
Friday dog blogging, a day early:
(Invisible without Flash illumination, I might add)
Why my head feels like it’s got a railroad spike through it
June 15, 2005 – 5:27 pm
Yuk! Damn trees. When’s fall start, anyway?
I, for one, welcome our new tax and spend overlords
June 12, 2005 – 9:28 am
(Or perhaps “I have met our new tax and spend overlords, and he is us” is more appropriate?)
7123 - YES
6550 - NO
Either way, 5 more years of business as usual.
Altman, Baldwin, and…
June 8, 2005 – 10:28 am
An Arlington List member suggests he may leave town if the override fails. He admits surrounding towns are too expensive and that he would likely be forced to go further afield.
I suggest France - I hear there’s a webmaster union there.
;-)
Finally*, a way to add 3 inches that actually works
June 7, 2005 – 5:07 pm
The Chinese get all procrustean on themselves:
Dr. Xia charges $6,000 to $7,000 to add up to six inches of height, depending on the patient’s ideal proportions. The initial operation, in which he severs the thighbone or shinbone through two small incisions in the skin, takes about an hour and a half. He then attaches his [...]
What a wonderful turn of phrase….
June 7, 2005 – 12:11 pm
“This stuff isn’t intended to persuade, as he notes; it’s meant to apply soothing warm Preconception Firming Gel to the buttocks of the audience, so they can clench them with righteous fury 24-7. “
This is the best description of the info/entertainment products sold to the Bush=Hitler crowd I have read.
Past Brush With Greatness?
June 2, 2005 – 10:54 pm
I happened to find out today that iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner (a) was the same class at MIT as I was (1989) and (b) lived in the same dorm that I did (Burton-Conner).
Even the Washington Post knows Amnesty International is full of crap
June 1, 2005 – 3:59 pm
Those obvious right-wing loonies on the WaPo editorial board have this to say about AI’s latest bit of idiotarianism.