Saturday, August 15, 2009

Artist at work

The picture is the cover of Warbreaker, a novel by Brandon Sanderson.

Saturday DYI



From here.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Thursday, August 13, 2009

But is it a power for good?

My Friend Albie is Scary

Yankee Cowards

It seems that Yale University Press is printing a book about the Danish Mohammed cartoons that doesn't actually have the cartoons themselves in it. Normally, that's a book I'd consider buying, but as it now stands, not so.

What do they do with all those gonads after they remove them in New Haven? How do they recycle them?

On a side note, it's a testament to free enterprise that Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams can sell so much yellow paint in Connecticut and still keep the rest of the country supplied with all the other colours of the visible spectrum.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Best Political Comment So Far

Our downtown commuter university, Georgia State is opening a freshman dorm. Red State mogul Erick Erickson wrote: "On the bright side, the freshmen will be able to take their keg parties inside now and not have legislators drink all the booze on the street."

From here.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Best Author Blurb Ever

Chuck Norris has an editorial about Obamacare over at Townhall. Go and read it if you feel inclined. The 'About the author' blurb at the bottom reads, and I quote: "Chuck Norris is a columnist and impossible to kill."

I think that says it all, right there.

A Song About Reason and Compromise with Middle Management



Addendum: Cliff apparently knows the same people I do. It really is a small world after all.

Tuesday Jazz

Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin

Part 1


and part 2

Monday, August 10, 2009

Public Plan Proposal

It's not about choice. It was never about choice. It's about eliminating choice.

Sunday, August 09, 2009