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Monthly Archives: February 2006
Bolton on UN reform: pay-to-play
February 25, 2006 – 6:23 pm
John Bolton slays me! From the Q&A session following his talk at The Federalist Society Student Symposium:
Q: To what extent do you feel the United Nations is impaired by the United States’ actions in Iraq without having gained support?
A: I think there’s no question that there was substantial opposition in the United Nations Security Council [...]
Spam name of the week
February 23, 2006 – 5:59 pm
For the week of 2/13-2/19:
Honorable mention:
Platon Peets
Divinest L. Twist
3rd Place:
Else McQueary
2nd Place:
Memorable F. Animosity
And the winner for this week:
Rutabagas S. Duff
Root vegetables + Simpsons beverages = hilarity
Extremist minority at Harvard?
February 21, 2006 – 5:01 pm
Amid rumors that Summers will resign before next tuesday’s faculty meeting (at which another no-confidence vote is possible), The Crimson reports:
While disaffection with Summers has been widespread throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, leaders of several other schools are expressing their admiration for the embattled president.
Wait… there’s more to Harvard than the FAS?
Althsuler, the [...]
Don’t get no respect…
February 21, 2006 – 11:26 am
Fast company has an interesting article on HR and its failings. It doesn’t say much new, but its a nice summary.
In the various companies I worked for, HR seemed to be where sometimes cute, not motivated or bright, young ladies went to waste time till they got married. Glorified admins. The only men were usually in [...]
From the spamfiles
February 14, 2006 – 3:19 pm
My absolute fave:
From: “Bret McDonald”
Subject: Industrial Robots
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:37:11 -0400 (EDT)
www.We-Buy-Used-Industrial-Robots.com
If you have any industrial robots to sell,
please visit our web site or call,
Toll Free: 1-877-4USEDROBOTS (1-877-487-3376)
To be removed from the mailing list, please send a blank email to unsubscribe@robots-wanted.com with unsubscribe in the subject line.
Robots-Wanted
501 London Rd.
Delaware, OH 43015
I wouldn’t [...]
New weekly feature at Archenemy
February 13, 2006 – 1:45 pm
I’m starting a new weekly feature here at Archenemy- The spam name of the week.
For the week of 2/6-2/12:
Third place: Bogomir Atterbury
Second place: Spokesman I. Strangulation
And (drum role please….):
First place: Phillipians R. Pestilence
File under: thankless tasks
February 12, 2006 – 3:44 pm
Don Boudreaux’s neverending game of whack-a-mole.
So wrong
February 6, 2006 – 2:45 pm
Memo to Chicago Sun-Times: don’t put flash ads that send butterflies flitting around the page next to a Mark Steyn column.
Just don’t.
And P.S., death to Israel
February 6, 2006 – 1:51 pm
Muslim Man Complaint Box:
this woman was having a talk with guests and things got a bit out of control when the woman host said “no, I don’t think so” to one of the guests. I was so mad I told my wife to drown herself in the bathtub while I finished watching the show. Then, [...]
Cold turkey
February 6, 2006 – 1:46 pm
Unsubbed from The List yesterday, apparently just in time to miss this. Ah, well.
It’s a little early to recommend it to other “users” who might be worried about withdrawal symptoms - I’ve already started to experience mood swings (though mostly towards a lighthearted optimism), but no shakes or sweats yet. We’ll see how it goes.
Gunpowder treason and plot
February 3, 2006 – 3:33 pm
V for Vendetta is opening on March 17th, and they’ve got two good trailers up that suggest that the Wachowski brothers have been more true to Moore’s script than we’re used to seeing in comic adaptions for the big screen.
I note that this (presumably hollywood) movie featuring a crazy western terrorist blowing up western gov’t [...]