2008 January

Fred Thompson announced today that he’s out of the race.
Oh well, it’s a good thing he never terminated his contract with Law and Order. He has important work yet to do.

I work for a non-profit and we carefully watch our pennies. Toward that end, for the folks who need to edit .pdf documents, we had to purchase an Adobe product at $90 or a Scansoft product at $40. Guess which one we purchased?
One day someone came to complain that their Scansoft was claiming [...]

Among other things, one drain on my financial resources (otherwise known as a hobby) is scanner monitoring. There is a law that any scanner manufactured after a certain year was not allowed to receive the cell phone band.
So people bought the older ones that did. But the point is moot because [...]

Now get 8gb Flash drives on sale…
drives range from 16mb to 4gb..
[you do the math]
USB Missile Launcher
Potato Pellet Gun
Colt Derringer Rubberband Gun
[I'll suffer the consequences if I buy this for work...]

I just came across a service called Meemix (.com). It’s one of those personal web radio stations where you put in a favorite artist and it tries to guess what kind of music you like to hear. You rate the songs and it adapts to your tastes.
These things have traditionally turned out to [...]

I get these from my local NBC affiliate. They’re too good to miss.
Black & Decker Blower/Vac Recall
too many sex-related accidents
15,000 Wagons Have Too Much Lead
it’s a good thing China cleaned up its act…
Asbestos Fears Pull CSI Toy From Shelves
hey kids… diagnose your own potentially fatal illness!
Mushrooms Recalled After Listeria Found In Sample
listeria…. makes your [...]

Who’s Richardson?

Ok, folks, I have emails from 9am this morning, talking about vote fraud in New Hampshire. Here it is, more than thirteen hours later and I have yet to see a single whisper of this news on Fox, CNN, or Drudge. If you need evidence of an owned media, here it is.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
UPDATE JAN [...]

…from my local NBC affiliate
Justices Appear Split Over Lethal Injection
[some prefer morning, others late afternoon]
Corzine Unveils Toll Hike Plan
[yet another reason to stay out of New Jersey]
Stove Explosion Injures Four
[that meth is pretty volatile, isn't it?]
Man Says Cemetery Looks Like Bomb Went Off
[was anybody hurt?]
Army Captain With Local Ties Dies In Iraq Ambush
[shot by Halliburton [...]

I had to stop going to Home Depot. It happened for reasons other than the fact that I shouldn’t be allowed near power tools, or worse - wood. I had to stop going to Home Depot because of Home Depot.
This is a corporation that ate another corporation, farting out the worst excuse anyone [...]