random ramblings: Archive

“The biggest problem with broadband service in America is not...”
— Glenn Derene (via azspot)

Mar 3rd

March 3rd, 2009 is a Square Root Day. ...

shawnblog: inothernews: padayon: dare: constellation: twothirty: I’m not sure of...

Mar 3rd

hilker: The Housing Chart That’s Worth 1000 Words [h/t...

Mar 3rd

We just had a guy come in to our office trying to “win back” our business after we left...

Mar 3rd

From his actual website. Didn’t even have to...

Mar 3rd

So, someone (from the Philippines, I think) searched for...

Mar 3rd

“The recession is a good opportunity for out-of-work...”
— Coders urged to take up open...

Mar 3rd

Photos and Documents of Amin Al Husseini:...

Mar 3rd

Opinion: Republican Road to Recovery

Mar 3rd

“Listening to Mr. Obama and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel,...”
— Our Troubled Economy Is a...

Mar 3rd

“But after five weeks in office, it’s become clear that...”
— Our Troubled Economy Is a...

Mar 3rd

“Jokes are jokes, but this goes beyond what you might regard...”
— Education appointee email...

Mar 3rd

Brandon Heath - Give Me Your Eyes (Video &...

Mar 3rd

“There was a difference with Reagan and it is one, critical...”
— Andrew Sullivan The Daily...

Mar 3rd

Full Text of the 787 Billion Dollar Act

Mar 2nd

needtherapy: ...

Mar 2nd

Pearls Before Swine free online comic strip library at...

Mar 2nd

“HANOVER (Reuters) - German twenty-somethings would ditch...”
— German twenty-somethings...

Mar 2nd

sds: http://nationalgrammarday.com/

Mar 2nd

I don’t mean that the Republicans are forever out of power—only that there hasn’t...

Mar 2nd

Obama to tap Kan. Gov. Sebelius as health...

Mar 2nd

Two NFL players lost at sea

Mar 2nd

Paul Harvey: An appraisal of his career by...

Mar 2nd

Rush Limbaugh is not helping the...

squashed: The Conservative Political Action Conference featured Rush Limbaugh as a keynote...

Mar 2nd

UPPER EAST SIDE WOMAN SUES NEIGHBOR OVER...

Feb 28th

The Obama Team's Drink of Choice? Coke, Not...

Feb 28th

Obama Calls His Budget ‘a Threat to the...

Feb 28th

Here's a Glimpse: A Letter from 1953

Feb 28th

“Grose says he accepts that the e-mail was in poor taste and...”
— Mayor who sent watermelon...

Feb 28th

“President Obama, in his pursuit of liberal big-government...”
— TheHill.com

Feb 28th

“How obese is Obama’s spending bill? It is porkier than...”
— A friend’s Facebook...

Feb 28th

Dolores Umbridge vs Diane Feinstein

Feb 27th

Senate agrees to give D.C. residents a vote

Feb 27th

Someone from the California Senate's ISP...

sds: The entry page was a dashboard URL, so it was another tumblr. Ahhnold, is that you? ...

Feb 27th

“Our main goal at Facebook is to help make the world more...”
— Mark Zuckerberg (via...

Feb 27th

sds: robot-heart: digitaljourney:joshawesome:noahkai:bluddyellmiss: livedeliberate:...

Feb 26th

un: Conservation Status (via puzzler:shaneblog: (and over...

Feb 26th

needtherapy: spaceships: thewayoftheworld: snuh: ...

Feb 26th

needtherapy: robot-heart: New Zealander Nadya Vessey —...

Feb 26th

shawnblog: (via aatw)

Feb 26th

shawnblog: via www.bluebus.com.br

Feb 26th

Holy cow! What kind of school costs $150k?!?

Feb 25th

“Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest-serving Democratic...”
— Byrd: Obama in power grab No...

Feb 25th

“I know that some in my generation have a hard time with...”
— Kevin DeYoung, Why We Are Not...

Feb 25th

Jindal gets panned

Feb 25th

“Nobody messes with Joe What’s important is that he’s in...”
— “Nobody messes with Joe” Biden...

Feb 25th

“So what, then, is truly the difference between Israel and...”
— Fundamentally Freund: Are all...

Feb 24th

sds: un: Cool Stuff: CHANGE Into a Tuck Art Print |...

Feb 24th

sds: azspot: Be Careful Our Children Might Get Even With...

Feb 24th

Windows startup programs. What are they? Are...

Feb 24th

Pennsylvania rocked by 'jailing kids for...

Feb 23rd

via www.daybydaycartoon.com

Feb 23rd

“Wait ‘til you see the markets’ reaction to what he unveils...”
— Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

Feb 23rd

Useful IRS Links

How Much Was My 2008 Stimulus Payment? (Check how much stimulus money you recived last year -...

Feb 23rd

“When you spill the milk, you don’t need a lecture on...”
— Dr. Kevin Lehman...

Feb 23rd

“The sky will open. The lights will come down. Celestial...”
— Bipartisanship didn’t...

Feb 23rd

PostSecret Almost every time I look at PostSecret, there is...

Feb 22nd

PostSecret

Feb 22nd

These executives are thinking about self-preservation, and that’s what we all do. They...

Feb 21st

The Farmer In The Dell Cartoons

Feb 21st

Using the queue, but since Tumblr is pretty well dead on Saturdays, I’m still filling up...

Feb 21st

Calculator for Azerbaijani Manat (AZN)...

Feb 21st

needtherapy: This might be going a little too far :) I...

Feb 21st

needtherapy: robot-heart-politics: markbean: Big Fat...

Feb 21st

“I like parties, but I don’t like piñatas because the pinata...”
— - Demetri Martin via...

Feb 21st

(via shawnblog)

Feb 21st

foolishcross: Pew Research Center: Darwin Debated: Religion...

Feb 21st

New Deal or raw deal?

Feb 21st

Youniverse.com

Feb 21st

“Bill Mounce writes about Eph. 4:29 and how it applies to...”
— Between Two Worlds: Ephesians...

Feb 21st

Did Overeager Twittering Blow GOP Chances?

Feb 21st

Too late for ex-Burris backers to cut and run

Feb 21st

Obama wants to overhaul health care; can he...

Feb 21st

Confessions of a taxi driver

Feb 21st

[A sentiment from a friend] Government bailout is like the non-working spouse (government) giving...

Feb 21st

“A new national poll indicates that a majority of Americans...”
— Poll: Most favor...

Feb 21st

An interview with parents of 18 kids

[Joy] Behar: I understand that you guys are debt free. I can’t even imagine how you pulled...

Feb 21st

Are you kidding me? Tumblr blows my mind sometimes. From...

Feb 20th

So, I am definitely going to have to look into using the queue. If I post things once every 17...

Feb 20th

White House Transition

Feb 20th

He survived after bungee cord broke

Feb 20th

Stock Market Since Inauguration

Feb 20th

“Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must...”
— Experts Warn of...

Feb 20th

Huffpo Red in the Face Over Fox News Hoax

Feb 20th

“Bill Clinton says Obama needs to sound more hopeful: Former...”
— Bill Clinton wants Obama to...

Feb 20th

A Letter to the Editor

Let us shame those who wish Obama ill Don Ellis, Henderson Fri, Feb 20, 2009 (2:03 a.m.) It is...

Feb 20th

Why I hate Facebook - CNN Why I Hate the Oscars (But Can’t Stop Watching) - Newsweek Up...

Feb 20th

“A Fayetteville man who faked his death almost 30 years ago...”
— Fayetteville man pleads guilty...

Feb 20th

Tamil Tiger planes 'raid Colombo'

Feb 20th

sds: kevinnuut: I Could Go For Some Wine… Anyone who...

Feb 20th

ESPN Team's gesture supports grieving...

Feb 19th

“Keynesian stimulus only ends or softens a recession if most...”
— Opinion: ‘Hair of the...

Feb 19th

“On Tuesday Mr. Obama signed into law his $787,000,000,000...”
— Opinion: ‘Hair of the...

Feb 19th

“Team Obama has been living off its campaign reputation for...”
— Rove: Is the Administration...

Feb 19th

“Team Obama was winging it when it declared the stimulus...”
— Rove: Is the Administration...

Feb 19th

Men see bikini-clad women as objects,...

Feb 19th

“Repeating the statement that [Obama] won last November is...”
— Commentary: What Congress...

Feb 19th

Reagan vs Obama on countering "the worst...

sds: [Reagan’s] task was to begin rallying public support for a program designed to jolt the...

Feb 18th

Heard on the radio today: “Monkeys are tough.” “Nothing good comes after the...

Feb 18th

sds: onemoretimewithfeeling: sds: Yes, this is...

Feb 17th

“Genuine bipartisanship assumes an honest process of...”
— Barack Obama, The Audacity of...

Feb 17th

hilker: “Green Island Project” imagines what Tokyo would...

Feb 17th

Amar Bhide Says the Stimulus Bill Relies on...

Feb 17th

Police shoot chimp after rampage wounds U.S....

Feb 17th

I just emailed this to a friend who is in the process of purchasing a home. Maybe I just...

Feb 17th

“I think that what I’ve said is what other economists have...”
— Barack Obama forgetting that...

Feb 17th

(via themiddle)

Feb 16th

Pretty cool. I knew that I would have the highest...

Feb 16th

“I remember 2004, when they said that the Democrats were in...”
— Alexandra Pelosi, “Right...

Feb 16th

“I do think that the Internet has really soiled a lot of the...”
— Alexandra Pelosi, “Right...

Feb 16th

“I think that the blogs have poisoned the political...”
— Alexandra Pelosi, “Right...

Feb 16th

“I remember Elaine Tornero in Reynoldsburg, Ohio: She called...”
— Alexandra Pelosi, “Right...

Feb 16th

“They had huge crowds, and I felt they were really...”
— Alexandra Pelosi, “Right...

Feb 16th

“Thousands and thousands, hundreds of thousands of people...”
— Alexandra Pelosi, “Right...

Feb 16th

“To a degree, one of Mr. Geithner’s biggest problems was not...”
— Fair Game - The Worst Misstep...

Feb 16th

“Venezuelans approved on Sunday a constitutional reform to...”
— TAKE A LOOK-Venezuela’s...

Feb 16th

“Lim, who is in fourth grade, writes applications for Apple’s...”
— Yahoo! News - Nine-year old...

Feb 16th

My Way News - Ohio woman pleads guilty in...

Feb 16th

PostSecret

Feb 15th

Why do they always want to cut social...

squashed: Sds and Bellatoris quoted a charming article by Jerome Corsi, who you might remember...

Feb 14th

Replacing government vehicles

squashed: Perhaps the most widely disparaged provision in the stimulus involves purchasing new...

Feb 14th

“As the Obama administration pushes through Congress its $800...”
— Federal obligations exceed...

Feb 14th

Michael Calderone's Blog: Clinton wants 'more...

Feb 14th

Obama planning ambitious road ahead

Feb 14th

“Maybe, just maybe, Congressmen shouldn’t have voted for...”
— The Trunk: Sneaking Stuff In ...

Feb 14th

“It’s like when you clean your house…certain...”
— foolishcross’s tumblr...

Feb 14th

“The traditional Arabic name for Jesus is Yasu’. Until very...”
— Jochen Katz: ‘Isa — the true...

Feb 14th

“The Great Depression caused hardship for many U.S....”
— Procter & Gamble:...

Feb 14th

The President's Conflict of Interest

jeffmiller: In September, Paulson’s dire warnings of imminent economic calamity had a dual effect....

Feb 14th

hilker: [h/t devin] What I find so humorous about this is...

Feb 14th

sds: via http://www.gopvalentine.com The first one...

Feb 13th

The Economic Crisis Explained With...

sds: hilker: soupsoup: Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Berlin . In order to increase sales,...

Feb 13th

“However, it has become apparent during this process that...”
— Judd Gregg on withdrawing his...

Feb 12th

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism,...”
— The day socialism comes to...

Feb 12th

“With all due respect to the president,” the principal...”
— Students: Change Boulder High...

Feb 12th

“I did send [Sarah Palin] a note after the election. I...”
— Bill Ayers I haven’t decided...

Feb 12th

How I Got A $12,000 Check From The Government...

Feb 12th

Jeff Miller analogizes the role of...

sds: (The title is mine) jeffmiller: So, yes, maybe the economic boom in the 1980s came about...

Feb 12th

IMDb Top 250 movies as voted by our users

Feb 12th

via media3.washingtonpost.com An amazing graphic.

Feb 11th

“Yes, this grotesque scene, like a claustrophobic circle in...”
— Camille Paglia on Obama,...

Feb 11th

“Lott says the picture indicated a law was being broken in...”
— Eight arrested in Michael...

Feb 11th

Obama's Tears

jeffmiller: They almost came as he talked about signing letters to the families of those killed in...

Feb 10th

“Those who presided over the last eight years — the...”
— Stimulus will lead to...

Feb 9th

Shouldn’t there be an easy way to share this from the...

Feb 8th

The conservative principles

While I am in the process of writing up my entire belief system (well, not the entire thing, but a...

Feb 8th

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young...”
— Stephen King on J.K. Rowling,...

Feb 8th

fincher: snuh: molodoichelovek: via

Feb 8th

Quiz: How much do you know about presidents'...

Feb 8th

Sometimes a President Is Just a President -...

Feb 8th

What got cut from the stimulus bill - CNN.com

Feb 7th

I’m a little hard on common sense in my post. Well, more than a little. And common sense could...

Feb 7th

The conservative principles

squashed: Andrew R. Fox lists, “Sanctity of life, small government, free-market economy” as modern...

Feb 7th

Joe the Prophet

squashed: Demographically, the Republicans need to change or die. The middle-class white guy vote...

Feb 7th

“21. I once sent a teacher into early retirement by...”
— Facebook: 25 Things I...

Feb 7th

Australians try and copy U.S., "sully" their...

Feb 6th

Our internet gets so much faster when everyone is at lunch, it isn’t even funny.

Feb 6th

More turning to Web to watch TV, movies -...

Feb 6th

sds: khronos: thisrecording: When Union soldiers...

Feb 6th

“Paul Ford questions the nearly 45,000 citations issued in...”
— Duncanville council member...

Feb 5th

I just had to completely re-arrange my desk because the guy whose office door is next to my desk...

Feb 5th

Record-Breaking Breasts | NBC New York 38KKK. Yuck.

Feb 5th

“But many free software people I know argue for Netscape or...”
— Free software as a replacement...

Feb 4th

“Tabloids want me to be this young woman who loses it and...”
— Youth Culture Hot Quotes

Feb 4th

Americans Approve of Most Obama Actions to...

Feb 4th

“I look forward to working with all of you —...”
— Ironies pile up as Clinton...

Feb 3rd

I am currently reading Road Work by Mark Bowden. I thought...

Feb 1st

PostSecret

Feb 1st