Well tomorrow is my birthday. Which means, naturally, my family has come down with a virus. I've finished tucking them all in and can now surf the net a bit before getting some late night work done.
Linda Folely demonstrates why people don't trust the media anymore even if her demonstration is unintentional.
Democrats are mad at Karl Rove for pointing out a stereo-type between the left and the right when it's come to the war on terror. The American Right: "Let's go get the guys who did this!" and the left: "We need to understand why they hate us and fix ourselves." I'm not sure what exactly is offensive about poining out the obvious, especially during a week when Democratic senators are comparing our troops with Nazis and Pol Pot.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court Ruling that the state can now confiscate lands from people to hand over to richer people (i.e. ones who will create more bucks for the state) has created quite an uproar on the net. Talk about playing into Bush's hands. Now Bush can truthfully say that this is why we have to be assertive on getting conservative judges on the bench. When the court starts handing the government new powers like candy, it should be a wake-up call that this judge issue is serious. Or perhaps they'll wait until the state starts evicting churches (tax exempt, tsk tsk) in favor of Walmart.
Looks like bionic arms are getting better.
Is Longhorn going to be worth the wait? Here is someone with some thoughts on it.
On a different topic, for all the screaming about Gitmo being a gullag, it's interesting how rarely it gets mentioned that no one has died in captivity there. I suppose it's a good thing that the people complaining now weren't in charge back in World War II when treatment of POWs was decidedly rougher.
Glaciers seem to come and go over the years. The thing that annoys me about global warming advocates (other than that they usually know very little about the science and hence come across like people trying to argue that the bible is scientifically proven because "scientists" have "shown that to be the case") is that they often really aren't solid on what global warming actually is supposed to be around. According to global warming theory, the earth's atmosphere is warming up because of an increase in greenhouse gasses. People then point out how much warmer some places seem to be. How about this theory -- warming surfaces. Cities are heat sinks. Go to New York some summer day. I wouldn't be surprised that the earth's surface is warmer, particularly in areas that have been built up. The evidence for amospheric temperature increases is pretty sparse IMO.