I’ll try not to turn this in to another obsessive Mac fan blog, but let’s just say that I’m beginning to realise what I’ve been missing. I’m not going back. [Simon Willison: Mac-tastic]
It Just Works
Archives for January 2004
Bush in Thirty Seconds
Watched most of the ads that MoveOn has placed up online in the Bush in 30 Seconds competition.
I didn’t register to vote, but the best one in my mind is In My Country because everything this guy says is true.
I’m still voting for Bush though.
It is a dream I have…
“I’ve often thought.. that in the hereafter of our lives. When I owed no more to the future.. can be.. just a man.
That we may meet, and you will come to me.. and claim me yours.. and know that I am your husband….
It is a dream I have….”
– King Arthur, “Excalibur”
The Cheeseburger
Most Anticipated Moment of 2003: When the ultrasound technician pointed at the monitor and said, See that cheeseburger? That means its a girl.
My husbands most memorable quote of 2003: Youre going to have to teach our daughter about her cheeseburger.
If you’re getting your daily dose of Dooce – well, then, you’re just missing out on life.
Consequences
Pete Rose, has now admitted that he bet on baseball during his time as the manager of the Cincinatti Reds.
I remember Rose’s case well – it was during a brief moment of time in my life where I read Sports Illustrated religiously. His was an interesting case – because of his prominence in the sport tarnished by such a rapid fall.
As Rose discovered, all actions have consequences. His gambling on baseball resulted in his lifetime banishment from the sport. And thus, he’s ineligible to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
He’s applied for reinstatement and many have now taken up his cause.
I agree it’s a shame that he won’t be remembered as the Hall of Famer that he could have been – but his actions severely tarnished the reputation of the game, cast into doubt the result of the games in which he managed, and destroyed his own reputation.
He made the decision and now he needs to live with the consequences of that decision.
Fighting for Freedom
I think the best thing I’ve read so far was from the family of a 20 year old Marine who was killed. His family said that though they were devastated, it wasn’t a waste because he had been fighting for freedom. Wow. [A Marine’s Story]
The Nature of the Opposition
“I realize that not every GI Joe was 100peeercent behind Prseeedent Booosh going into this war; but I do know that that is what an overwhelming number of them and their famlies screamed in the face of protesters who were trying to protect these kids. Well, there is more than one way to be “dead” for your country. They are not only not accompishing squat in Iraq, they are doing crap nothing for the safety, defense of the US of A over there directly. But “indirectly” they are doing a lot.
The only way to get rid of this slime bag WASP-Mafia, oil barron ridden cartel of a government, this assault on Americans and anything one could laughingly call “a democracy”, relies heavily on what a sh*t hole Iraq turns into. They need to die so that we can be free. Soldiers usually did that directly–i.e., fight those invading and harming a country. This time they need to die in defense of a lie from a lying adminstration to show these ignorant, dumb Americans that Bush is incompetent. They need to die so that Americans get rid of this deadly scum. It is obscene, Barbie Bush, how other sons (of much nobler blood) have to die to save us from your Rosemary’s Baby spawn and his ungodly cohorts.”
From Right Wing News’s recap of the Top Ten Worst Quotes from the Democratic Underground.
That’s all I needed to know about the nature of the “loyal democratic opposition”.
Loyal, my ass. These quotes make me sick.