OK, it didn't change. It's pretty much the same as last week - but it is really like that week twenty-seven weeks back if you think about it. It's kinda eerie when you think about it like that. Or mid-May 2005. It's like that, too. Weird:
- Georgian military update: Castle Aaarrgh knows all.
- Best Job Title Update: "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Belarus Alexander Surikov said..." Wow. What a handle. I don't care what he had to say but what a handle.
- The
Olympics are apparently on. I would like to maybe see the shot put. Not much else. Why not just have two weeks of shot putting on TV, you know, when the Red Sox aren't playing. That would be better. - Olympic Update: is this pair of images to the right, including one created today, one of those separated-at-birth things? Click for more detail.
- Even this link it so a .pdf, it is to a .pdf of a new map explaining international claims to the Arctic...and guess what: we are losing Santa.
- Baywatch: it's working out just fine.
- Oh dear. This is the first real bit of bad economic news for Canada in yoinks. Pray for the return of the eighty cent dollar.
- You know I like NCPR and you know I like "The Beat Authority" on Friday afternoons. Well, there is a Beat Authority Blog now, too. It's the future and it's all about that 1998 convergence thing. And throbbing dancing beats.
- Australian monachists hate puns. Buns? No, puns.
- Would a McCain Presidency with the Democrats running both houses be so bad?
So that is it for now. A late beginning to the day and an internet connection that fails makes for short bullets even when I write most of this through the week. I'd get a new internet service but I fear change.
Comments
sean - August 8, 2008 10:14 am
There is an Olympics on? Darn, I rented a weeks worth of anime and old kung fu movies. Guess I'll have to catch the next one.
Alan - August 8, 2008 10:17 am
Interesting: "10,300 construction jobs were added, as were 6,400 in agriculture."
Renee - August 8, 2008 11:30 am
"Would a McCain Presidency with the Democrats running both houses be so bad?"
Yes, because the Democrats have this distressing ability to pull their vote for Republican legislation and somehow make themselves believe that this is a sign of strength.
sean - August 8, 2008 12:01 pm
Renee has a point. In the US all someone has to do is raise the flag of patriotism on some issues and the Dems will cave in. At least here our brave and patriotic Liberal Opposition have the guts to, oh, wait, they don't, nevermind...
Ben (The Tiger) - August 8, 2008 12:17 pm
"Would a McCain Presidency with the Democrats running both houses be so bad?"
I think it'd end up like the first Bush presidency. (George H.W. Bush, I mean -- 1989-1993.)
Responsible foreign policy, moderate compromising domestic policy.
I wouldn't be so thrilled with it, but I'd prefer it to an Obama presidency.
Renee - August 8, 2008 2:35 pm
Huh. I didn't see Sauron as the kind of dude who dug organized sports.
sean - August 8, 2008 4:31 pm
"Huh. I didn't see Sauron as the kind of dude who dug organized sports."
If you watch the deleted scenes from the Two Towers, Sauruman encourages the Orcs to compete against the ents in the Hobbit Toss. Some wuss censor had it struck from the theatre release.
David Janes - August 8, 2008 8:20 pm
He was also a dead-eye shot in the Biathlon in his youth, but poor pace on the slats kept him out of the medals.