California’s Supreme Court says a ban on same-sex marriage violates that state’s constitution.

read all about it.

To be perfectly honest, I’m against gay marriage.
I’m against straight marriage too.

U.S. House Blocks $163 Billion for War in Iraq 15 May 2008 The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a plan to spend $163 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after anti-war Democrats and Republicans who objected to Democratic tactics refused to support the measure. Lawmakers defeated the measure by a 149 to 141 vote with more than 130 members voting “present.”

Wow. Most impressive. Wonder what they’re hiding.

Students take heed, Blackboard is now on Facebook

and Leon is getting larrrrrger

Flash Player 10 beta available now

STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING. PACK UP THE DOG AND THE CAR. THIS IS BIGGER THAN JESUS!

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with a review like that, I can’t resist!

“Poly9 FreeEarth: It’s like Google Earth, but Flash-based, and slower”

Wow…. with press like that…

President Stupid hasn’t said anything really out of character (even for him) lately. Until yesterday.

Yesterday in an interview, he stated that he had given up golf, in sympathy with the troops.

As usual, let me count the ways:

1. He doesn’t play golf.
2. He has also given up slamming his dick (Cheney) in the doorway of Air Force One.
3. He gave up Limburger cheese for Lent.
4. He knows nobody pays attention to a thing he says anyway.
5. He bet Cheney he could overcome his golf addiction.
6. Halliburton stopped making his favorite golf clubs.
7. Got tired of his wife reminding him that he couldn’t find the hole.
8. Secret Service got tired of moving the hole to his ball.
9. His boss (the vice president) told him to quit.
10. He was way too weak from trying to pronounce `nuclear’.

My wife is going on a long trip today. I am not.
She is very excited. I am not.
She has been bouncing off the walls in anticipation. I have not.
She has spent the last week preparing. I have not.

Believe it or not, I am less than thrilled at the whole idea of long trips. I know it’s hard to understand that I feel this way but stick with me for the time being.

I am also not thrilled at my temporary bachelor status. I have long believed in the concept of a Vice Wife. The president, if unable to fulfill his duties, has the vice president to step in. As such, I would have a vice wife to step in because the wife is unable to fulfill her wifely duties. Of course it has been suggested that this would result in two women not giving me sex, but I won’t go there right now.

Strange as it may seem, my wife is not entirely thrilled with this concept. I think it’s perfectly reasonable but I guess I’m running into that whole Mars/Venus thing.

That aside, my wife must be feeling the wrath of some vengeful component of the universe, as the morning hasn’t gone according to plans. Well, if you count the fact that she has spent some time in the car already, you can say that part of the plan has gone ok. Unfortunately that’s about the only thing that has.

Wife tells Friend that no, they can’t leave at 2pm - 10:30am would be better. At 10:30am, Friend is picked up and `discovers’ twenty or so small errands and rituals she had forgotten about. Wife calmly follows friend. Wife calls to say goodbye again and give me a progress report.

At noon, wife calls again to say goodbye and let me know how things are on the long trip. It depends, I suspect, on how you define trip

. They’re not technically any further along the road because there were more errands. They exited a store to discover a nice police lady ticketing the car. Wife asks Friend what that is about.

“Oh, you’re not supposed to park here for longer than fifteen minutes. I get tickets all the time.”

Wife allows that it might have been nice if she had mentioned that before she parked.

Wife didn’t have much time to think of a way out so once again, a component of the universe stepped in to handle things for her. This Component came in the form of one of the denizens of Friend’s house, who happened by at that moment. He told the cop that they were not simply parked there, they have been out looking for his grandma, who has Alzheimers and no one has seen since 7:30am. Nice police lady voids ticket.

Tremendous excuse, too. Unfortunately he was not making it up. They had been calling around, trying to figure out if she was out with someone; she doesn’t generally make a point of disappearing. So the entire hamlet’s police force will be out looking for her. I certainly hope someone succeeds in short order. Grandma is a nice lady.

I certainly hope the road trippers get on with their trip too. It has been over three hours and they’re no farther than when they started.

Meanwhile, will somebody please send the dancing girls by the house to keep me company?

Opera has finished up on its Mini 4.1 version. It’s available for many platforms, including my favorite, Palm (Treo). Don’t forget to download the java machine to run it.

Check it out.

The other day, while stopped at a light, I observed a lady in (what else?) a minivan go by. Rather than talking on the cell phone, putting on makeup, or reading the paper, she was a first for me.

She was knitting.

Also new is the permanent page `Meet the Pets (2) - Marshall’. Look for it over on the right under PAGES.
It’s Marshall’s story (the dog). Previously I wrote about Ren (the cat). They’re quite a pair.

I spend way too much time reading about computers via RSS feeds and whatever else.  I come across a lot of potentially useful information.  I’ve finally decided to do something with it; I put it all on its own page, so people have a place to check it out and come back to it if they need to remember something.  The pages contain all sorts of search engines, consumer info, discounts, and how-to’s.  And more.

Over on your right is a category called Pages.  The page I’m speaking of is Online Utilities.  Check it out.  Maybe there’s something helpful there.  Maybe not.  Maybe you can suggest a great page to add.

thanks