The Last Ephor

Here is a list of real web sites with horribly bad chosen URLs: * An agency named “Who Represents” can tell you the name of the agent representing a celebrity. Their website is www.whorepresents.com. * Experts Exchange is a knowledge base for programmers maintained by programmers to help each other. Their website is www.expertsexchange.com. * Want to buy a pen? Pen Island is the place to go. Go to website www.penisland.net. * Looking for a therapist? Try www.therapistfinder.com. *Looking for the Italian Power Generator company? They are at www.powergenitalia.com. *If you want to find the Mole Station Native Nursery (they grow flowers): Look at www.molestationnursery.com. * In retrospect, being the First Cumming Methodist Church, and picking a URL of www.CummingFirst.com was probably a poor choice. *If you need an art designer, you can find one at Speed Of Art. Their URL is www.speedofart.com. h/t: random email

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Bold the ones you've done: 01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink 02. Swam with wild dolphins 03. Climbed a mountain 04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive 05. Been inside the Great Pyramid 06. Held a tarantula 07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone 08. Said “I love you” and meant it 09. Hugged a tree 10. Bungee jumped 11. Visited Paris 12. Watched a lightning storm. 13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise 14. Seen the Northern Lights 15. Gone to a huge sports game 16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa 17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables 18. Touched an iceberg 19. Slept under the stars 20. Changed a baby’s diaper 21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon 22. Watched a meteor shower 23. Gotten drunk on champagne 24. Given more than you can afford to charity 25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope 26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment 27. Had a food fight 28. Bet on a winning horse 29. Asked out a stranger 30. ...

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse...A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other." John Stuart Mill "The Contest in America," Fraser’s Magazine (February 1862)

This is inspired:

Envy is one of the seven deadly sins.

I'll start off by saying that my son doesn't do well in the car. By "doesn't do well" I mean, he will frequently hit or kick anyone within reach for the duration of the trip. That little nugget lets you know why we don't travel to the midwest to visit my family. As I am not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croesus, I am not going to fly 6 people there. As I am not certifiably insane, I'm not driving there either. On Friday, I took my eldest son to see a behavioral specialist in Baltimore. That's an hour plus in nice weather. Add freezing rain and it's even longer. For added fun, we were about 20 minutes late in leaving which put the pressure on to get there with all possible speed. Oh, and did I mention that half an hour into our journey I realized we didn't bring his mid day dose of his medication (the one that keeps him balanced)? No, well, throw that into the mix too. Gas? Meet Fire. We've been working with his teachers and thera...

h/t: American Digest

Put this one on my Christmas list.

h/t: Freeberg

Gotta love Bollywood

My blog's readability: Get a Cash Advance Gerry's: Get a Cash Advance Consider also that my blog was hampered by essentially reposting something from his blog which drags my average way, way down.

I see that the National Right to Assemble is at it again; proving once more that, N R A stands of Non-Rational A*******. Most of us know that NRA types love their meetings, because it’s a substitute for caressing their having friends. They are literally circle jerk-offs. They are trying to destroy the country’s sensible crowd control laws, probably because they want to play out their John Wayne hero fantasies. Apprarently, according to the N R A, if you don’t have a felony record, you are automatically an upstanding citizen, and all you need is a little training in the mechanics of crowd control, coupled with a few hours of megaphone instruction, and, you can be cut loose on humanity with a loudspeaker at you side. I got news for the N R A, and, any other idiot who thinks that more megaphones in the home or, on the street are necessary. You will soon discover that it will cause many more horrible problems than it will solve. Not having a felony record doesn’t mean a person has not comm...

I've not done this one in a while. So...back by (un)popular demand here we go: Sarko beats SNCF unions . A huge, huge win for him. The transport unions are immensely powerful in France. Perhaps even more so than the trucker's union who regularly paralyze France every year. It was an interesting thing to see when I was there. There was always immediate sympathy for whomever was striking. Given that it took all of 9 days for the public to sour on the strikers and the SNCF was willing to cave so quickly is very serious indicator of how things have changed. I believe the ex-urban French have finally had it with the culture of laziness and sloth that has been part and parcel of French culture for decades. Look for Sarko's approval ratings to tank in the short term but rise steadily if he continues on this track. New Pope aware that modern liturgical music is awful. Urges a return to the classics. This note will be of little interest to anyone in the DE Blogosphere w...

That was the refrain from my Business Law professor. The one class I took that constitutes any sort of formal education I've had regarding law. That expression stuck with me and with good reason. I see it revealed on a regular basis. What do you say about a case where adults create a fake MySpace page for the sole purpose of deceiving and tormenting a 13 year old girl with mental problems? I'm sure you've heard about it by now. The entire story is here . Synopsis: Two girls are friends, for some reason or another, they aren't friends anymore. Girl #2's parents create a fake MySpace page with a good looking boy who asks to be Girl #1's friend. After gaining her confidence, the fake boy insults and degrades Girl #1 mercilessly. So much so that she kills herself. The parents and teens responsible do nothing. They don't beg for forgiveness or turn themselves in to police. Instead, they continue to act like they are still friends with the dead girl...

This one is more you than me.

Our esteemed President is currently polling at 23% approval, nearly an all time low for any President. Meanwhile the Democratically controlled Congress is polling at 11% approval. 11 * 2 = 22 therefore, Bush is twice as good as Congress. Q.E.D.

I've been holding off on commenting on the imbroiglio over a posting at DelawareLiberal for Veteran's Day for several reasons. First and foremost is the situation at home (more on that later) but also because I wanted to get some distance from it to be sure I was seeing things clearly. I've been reading DV's stuff since before he joined Jason on his site and I've noticed a change in tone which seems to have accelerated of late. I enjoyed going to the old site because it was one the few places I could engage someone with different ideas than mine without things crashing headlong into Godwin's law within 3 posts. In short, DV acted in good faith and was rather deferential to his visitors which I greatly appreciated. Since pulling the old blog and posting on DelwareLiberal, I've noticed that ground has eroded rather quickly. I've never agreed with anything Jason posted but found him a book end to DelaThought's knee jerk partisan right wingery. Fi...

is a cheese eating surrender monkey! Your Inner European is French! Smart and sophisticated. You have the best of everything - at least, *you* think so. Who's Your Inner European? h/t: Miriam

DV: This one's for you.