This Op-Ed in the NYT

This Op-Ed in the NYT spells out what Shrubya's tax plan would do for most families. Here's a salient quote:

Mr. Bush's proposed tax cuts aren't just tilted toward high-income families; they target them with awesome precision.

I remember seeing the Kitty

I remember seeing the Kitty Porn site a long time ago...

A young man using the handle "flea" uploads a pornographic picture to an Internet "newsgroup". It happens an estimated 2000 times a day, but this time, it's different. The picture shows a naked six year old, who we will call Kathy, helplessly tied in thin blue yarn... and what is perhaps even more disturbing, the man distributing the picture is Kathy's legal guardian. To this date, no legal action has been taken and Kathy is still in the custody of "flea". Why has justice failed Kathy? Why has the law not intervened? The answer is simple... Kathy is a cat.

While looking at their products, our cat wished us to point out for the record that in his opinion, use of the Cat Mate is cruelty to animals. He needs regular love and affection; simply leaving food out is not sufficient. So, if you use that product, and come back to a house that's been torn to shreds, well, you have been warned.

On the other hand, my

On the other hand, my take is "Who wants to see us being petty and pissy with each other?" Hell, I don't even want to see that. And I know myself too well to think that I'll always be able to keep things on a high-minded plane.

Her blog is Whim &

Her blog is Whim & Vinegar. His blog is The Other Side. Their blog is One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Shark!. That last one's for their online discussions and debates with each other. It's an interesting concept, and one that I think about doing here periodically. Except that when one of us tries it, the other always gets into a snit and whines about not liking being abused in public.

(Note: both of us have tried it, and both of us have had snits. No fingers were being pointed in the previous paragraph. Really.)

Somehow, though, the two of them manage to pull it off. I'm going to keep an eye out, because I think that it'd make interesting blogging if we could figure out how to do it without killing each other.

Katie Hafner writes In Praise

Katie Hafner writes In Praise of the Mom-and-Pop I.S.P. in the NY Times. In it, she praises buying locally, rather than from a faceless conglomerate: My milk comes from a local dairy, and my Internet connection comes from a small company in Santa Rosa, Calif., called Sonoma Interconnect, or Sonic. Few people outside Sonoma County have heard of it.

I got a good chuckle out of her article, but for another reason altogether. I'm a firm believer is buying locally, but sometimes, in the small town where I live, you can't. For those things, I have to drive to the biggest city in the county: Santa Rosa.

Her small town is my big city. I suspect the size of her ISP also dwarfs the size of mine.

In honor of this week's

In honor of this week's political convention, a couple of links:

• If you liked "Pat the Bunny", you'll love Pat the Candidate.
  
• Senator Joseph Lieberman's Official Sabbath Memo. Who else would you trust to cut pork in the gov't?

I think I might regret

I think I might regret this link: Firebox.com, "where men buy stuff." Check out the Shot Glass Chess Set.

I'll say this: the loathsome

I'll say this: the loathsome Maureen Dowd's latest column (I can't even bear to link to it) is a great example of psychotic projection, with nary a fact to be found. Why the NYT gives her the space to rant is beyond me. And the idea that she won a Pulitzer Prize for this sort of merde still stuns me.

Support your local library! Last

Support your local library!

Last May, I went into my local branch library and put myself in the queue to check out a popular book.

Last Thursday, after 3 months, I checked on the status of that request, and found that I was still number 42 out of 55. So, I figured, these things take a while, and so long as I was looking at their book ordering system I thought I'd request a few more books.

I got a call today from the library. Nineteen of my books are in. Yee-hah!

Business Week panned the Palm

Business Week panned the Palm m100 that I was thinking about getting. Their recommendation is to get a closeout-priced IIIe instead. I'll have to think about this one.

There's been a real lack

There's been a real lack of self-promotion here lately, at least in our opinions. And to right that grievous wrong, here's a link to A Gentle Introduction to JavaScript--which is also featured on the Macworld home page. It's the first in a planned monthly series for people who know HTML and want to learn JavaScript.

Pro wrestlers were featured at

Pro wrestlers were featured at the Republican convention to promote Bush. OTOH, Stephen Hawking will be endorsing Gore at the Democratic.

From MacWEEK: Quick Links:Macworld UK

From MacWEEK: Quick Links:

Macworld UK notes that Apple has provided enough AirPort Base Stations to cover the entire Staples Center.

And because I bet that there's no security activated on those Base Stations, you could probably do some really interesting surfing at the site...

Also for Al, here's links

Also for Al, here's links to the minor party presidential platforms: Harry Browne, Ralph Nader, the Reform Party (no candidate mentioned, oddly enough), John Hagelin, and of course, Ambassador Duke.

I never got around to

I never got around to adding permalinks onto this site; there was always something better to do. And anyhow, I figured, no one had ever asked, so it really wasn't worth the trouble.

Well, today Al asked. So, look down a little... see where it says "Link"? That's a permalink, and if you use that URL, you'll be able to get back to this exact (or any other) post.

Having a Miata is fun,

Having a Miata is fun, particularly on a beautiful August day.

Having a sunburn, however, is not.

Steve Isn't Happy.

Steve Isn't Happy.

In case you were wondering,

In case you were wondering, here's the presidential candidate's platforms:

Al Gore

George Bush