You know, it's sort of embarrassing when the Los Angeles City Council has more sensible politics than your own. The LA guys deadlocked on passing one of those idiotic antiwar resolutions. My local guys didn't.


Guess who's not getting my vote next time? It's not because I disagree with their opinion on the war (though I do). It's because they wasted several hours of city time and money on an issue that they have no standing to pursue. It's as moronic as those churches that declare themselves to be "nuclear-free zones". Yep, I'm sure seeing one of those signs would've made an SS-24 reentry vehicle take a u-turn. "Can't detonate here -- it's a nuclear-free zone!"

Fucking gooheads.

In keeping with the current mania for Photoshopping (or Gimping, in my case) WWII-era posters, I decided to have a crack at it myself.

The blogroll will be updated as soon as I get a chance. I have many others I want to add (in fact, I've signed up for blogrolling.com). I'm just reluctant to start fucking with the Blogger template unless I know I'm going to have a large block of free time to repair it if it takes a dump on me.

Current reading: Consciousness Explained, by Daniel Dennett.
I don't think I really agree with Dennett's theories, but I'm going to have to let this stew for a while.

Current listening: The Anna Russell Album?

Liberal radio network in the works.

A couple of Chicago venture capitalists are proposing to fund a new radio network, with comedian Al Franken named as a potential host.


I've seen this story on CNN a couple of times today, but oddly there doesn't seem to be any mention of it on their site. Google news only turns up a couple of links, including the one above.

Liberal talk radio? Is that anything like a pro-nuclear mime troupe?

(Anyone else flashing on the old SNL Three Mile Island sketch, which, if I remember correctly, featured Franken as one of the "mimes"?)

Update: The New York Times has a story (hat tip to Cato the Youngest)

Current reading: Lots of Darwin APIs. I've about decided that porting an app to OS X isn't in the cards at this juncture. I need raw sector-level disk I/O, and the IOKit docs, while they might make sense to a Mac person, aren't really jelling for me. I may be able to read /dev/whatever directly.... dunno.

Current listening: Black Sabbath. Various things off Paranoid and Master of Reality, particularly Electric Funeral and Into the Void

Glenn Reynolds observes:

You'd think that they could manage a few hundred folks to march to the Iraqi mission and demand that Saddam step down, at least. And they could -- if they cared.

He's exactly right.

I keep hearing "We don't support Saddam, but..." Well, if you don't support him, how about spending 1/10th of the effort you do protesting against the United States to protest against Saddam? If you're concerned about the "Iraqi people", why aren't you marching against the person who's killed far more Iraqis than are likely to die in any reasonable U.S. invasion scenario?

Just unbelievable (via asparagirl)

Speaking as someone with close family members who are GLBT, I don't get it at all. Nor did they, when I asked them for comments.


Asparagirl also points us at this link, for those who might be interested in just how queer-friendly the PA is.


Current listening: Bach, Great Organ Works as performed by the inimitable Virgil Fox
Current reading: Have Spacesuit, Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein (yes, I'm on a re-reading of Heinlein jag. So shoot me.)