Pointers

Bouts Râmes

The first bout is up!

Um....

Did Yule let Rageboy take over her blog while she was somewhere else?

Rent-A-Coup

It's politics Tuesday and there is a single event that I want to call your attention to: the story behind the aborted Rent-A-Coup flight in Africa.

Northern Lights

In summers, we can sometimes catch it in Maine, which is about the farthest north that I have been.

Mondrian Mash

Mondrian reminds me too much of the idle tiling of graph paper sheets I used to do when I was supposed to be doing my mathematics homework.

Toot toot!
(It's my Horn And I'll Do What I Want With It)

I'm beginning to think of the myth of Satan as a form of mind control and a free dispensation to excuse acts of violence as "temptations" when it is you doing them to others.

No Further Comment
From a Georgetown University special collection dedicated to British Recruitment Posters from World War I:...

Passion and The Passion in Lake Forest

Sitting in a restaurant talking about how the movie moved us is not putting ourselves in the position of Jesus, who suffered the tortures, carried the cross, and expired with his hands and feet pinned to its wood while slowly suffocating.

Weekend Chills

For the sake of Valentine's Day -- that feast of love -- and because I don't like clouding my birthday, I kept my silence on political matters.

Not A Single Reference to Hitler
The winner of the MoveOn ad contest is: Child's Pay! It happens to be my personal favorite of the final...

Osama Confesses
See it here!...

Mad Cows
Here are the lyrics for a couple of cow-related songs: I am Cow Cows with guns...

State of the Disunion

Tell pResident Bush the real State of the Union.

Last Look at 2003
A couple of good links of the "best" of 2003: FAIR's Best of Counterspin FAIR's P-U-litzer Prizes for 2003 Stupid...

Two Sites about Arguments
A couple of sites that might be of interest: Nizkor's Logical Fallacies Page Rules for Flame Wars...

More than a Tempest

it is precisely because Wizbangblogs is attempting to position itself as an authority on what is good and what is bad that challenging the award category is important.

Techie Women of Quality Take Heed!
Misbehaving.net is compiling a list of techie women with blogs. If this sounds like you or a friend of yours,...

A Comment Worth Looking At
A new comment on an old article is worth looking at: War photographer Jon Mills on "Biased Impartiality": Many photographers...

The Sun is Crying

It's a nice illustration of the natural poet we have buried in ourselves and the virtue of listening to small children.

California Wildfires
Here's a photo site dedicated to California wildfires by a San Diego firefighter....

Druggies at a Self-Con

Kathryn's experience makes me want to invent a way to induce hallucinations in the obnoxious. Like the sight of a crazed Dubya loading and aiming an assault rifle.

The Consecration
Cassandra writes about the consecration of Anglican Bishop Gene Robinson. It's nice to have an eyewitness view instead of the...

Wicked Raven

Oh wicked black bird of wisdom!

Dead Peasants' Insurance
Check this out at Acts of Conscience....

The Gutless Agnostic Pacifist Speaks Up

Every Christian blog needs it's token agnostic!

Perverse Children's Books
I think this deserves no further comment....

Monumental
They should build a statue to this man. He'd make one hell of a fountain!...

Califoracle

Funny. Scary as all hell, too.

The Other Recall

We're not the only place in the world having a recall.

News from Camp Granada

It's the fortieth anniversary of the song that Alan Sherman made famous: Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah.

How the Russians Won the Cold War

Supposedly we lost in Vietnam. But what lessons did we learn? We're repeating it in Iraq and we're repeating the mistake of the Soviets in Afghanistan.

Ecotone Photography
If you take pictures around where you live, consider participating in the bimonthly Ecotone wiki Photographing Place topics. The topic...

Confluence Project

I took a look at some of the nearby confluences (oh Lord, I am sounding like a New Age vortex seeker when I say that!) and came to a conclusion that there's an awful lot of middle of nowhere in the world.

Overrun
Lynn is overrun by conservative commentators who don't like her views on same sex marriage, etc. Go help her....

Darwinian Poetry

I have to say that, for the most part, they were nonsensical pieces of alyrical garbage.

All the Dirt, All the Time

Don't miss the local scandals, including the mysterious murder of Frederico the Goat

Error Page....

Go to Google. Enter this phrase exactly, quotes and all: "weapons of mass destruction". Click on "I'm feeling lucky".

Wampum is Back
Mary Beth didn't give up blogging after all. Hooray!...

Wrecked

Joel on Weblogging
Even if you don't live in Orange County, California, you may find my series on "How to Blog" informative and...

Don't Be Schtupid, Be a Schmartie....

NAZI: Sure. (long pause) Are you going to send me a copy of this, because it's coming out really bizarre.

Me on Burning Bird
Burningbird quoted and remarked upon a comment I made on her blog. It's not a fight, but a mutual nodding...

Blog Poetry Report

Wordsmiths have blossomed online lately and I'd like to point out a few places where people have been risking their blogging reputations to express themselves in verse.

Hug and Keep Hugging Other Bloggers
Comments seem to be slow on many blogs. I've toured a bit and identified some active blogs that aren't so...

Trouble Trouble
To see what other trouble I am in this week, check The Gutless Pacifist where I am a guest blogger....

The Good Die Young

Everyone is celebrating Bob Hope's 100th anniversary. Except for one lone Orange County Weekly reporter and myself.

About the DLC
If you're wondering what the Democratic Leadership Council is, how it got into power, and why it is so dangerous,...

My Silence in the Thread
I'm keeping my silence in the thread (here and here) about Democrats and the 2004 election for now, not because...

Field Guide To Democratic Elites

Here's a trackback since no one else will do it.

Vinman: Eyewitness to Disaster

Hear about that dam burst in Michigan? Of course, you didn't.

LocalHikes.Com reporter

So far I have two hikes that I have covered.

Baghdad Museum Project

Will Ashcroft seek warrants to search the houses of the millionaires who are part of the market for these relics?

Raed Returns
Raed is not dead. He writes of the occupation of his city....

Seal of Approval

Let's take up a collection to bring him here and drop him on I-5 during rush hour

Acts of Conscience
Be sure to check Acts of Conscience for two recent articles that I wrote: Cotton Dumping and Mickey Mouse Law...

Whistle....

Saddam Hussein's Minister of Information declares war to be won.

Blast from the Recent Past
Conversation got hot in the comments for my Open Letter to Jeanne d'Arc....

Psssst
I'm also posting stuff at Acts of Conscience!...

War Blogging
This feature has been moved to Acts of Conscience....

You Are A Military Target

The moral of the story is think, think very hard about the line of propaganda that you're being fed.

War Blogging

I'd like to confront an erroneous view that is going around in some circles, one that is epitomized by the folksy saying that there are three positions on every issue: yours, mine, and the Truth. I feel that this is a cop out, a way of avoiding adjusting your take on events when the facts don't support it.

April Foolery

I've been threatened with shooting by right wingers for my views enough that I suspect the story about killing the peace activist for his views just might be the truth. If not, it's a sick joke.

War Blogging

Now that I've again established myself as a demon in many peoples' eyes, I will get on with the bidaily review of war blogging.

Reliable Human Rights Reports

Far too many bloggers are jumping to print reports coming off their television sets about alleged atrocities in Iraq. Both those for the war and those against it reprint the latest allegations uncritically.

War Blogging

I'm being found by members of the Moral Left (who include Christians, Muslims, New Agers, Humanists, and agnostics). Thanks for the new links!

War Blogging

Still no care packages for soldiers from me. I stand by what I have said on that subject.

POWs

[The United States] has violated international law in so many ways trying to wage this war on terrorism that it is like a drug lord whining because another of his breed welshed on a deal.

Right in My Neighborhood

Hey, we have a web page for Trabuco Canyon!

War Blogging

All the people I've listed today I respect for speaking their minds on the subject of the war. I do not agree with every position.

War Blogging

chari and I have been fighting and reconciling like brother and sister, again. Les Jenkins has been adopted into the family, apparently.

More War Blogging

Thanks to all who participated in the candle vigil.

War Blogging

The ways people choose to deal with the threat of war is not unlike the ways that people express grief over the death of a loved one. Here the loved one is World Peace. Some cry, some scream, some stay silent, some distract themselves. They are all valid responses to this insane situation.

Political Quiz

I got one hundred percent.

Cam Job

I used to have a cam running for part of the day here. Unfortunately, the star died of heart failure last December (alas, poor Ambrogo!).

Clit Eastwood?
Isn't that who chari, the goddess of good karma, looks like in this photo?...

Names

Quennel Steven

Nirva Moral

Ezra Paddy

Diallo Rico

Rad Yosefu

Haven Thurman

Cavan Luigi

Virtual March on Washington

Didn't go to one of the demonstrations last week? Feel left out of history?

American Police State

I thought I would do some pointers to other blogs and news articles that should give all Americans the chills.

Let us scream

mom: Remember, I brought you into this world, I can take you out of it.

Psychological Warfare

We got the message, George, and we still don't want to war.

Frodo Has Failed!

A friend sent me this dark piece of photographic art.

No Pretensions Here

I have no pretensions of winning wKenshow's "I love...." contest.

Fishes' Heaven

Rupert Brooke was stuck in the trenches when he wrote a parody of beliefs about the nature of Heaven -- as fish must conceive it.

Grey Bird will Be Relieved

Hamish was borne off by a wandering wind while visiting relations of his owner, Aileen O'Brien.

For the Morbidly and Not So Morbidly Inclined
If you liked my last collection of quotations, you may also enjoy this one, which is on the specific topic...

Banished from American English

These are selected from thousands of entries by a committee of professors drinking beer.

The Holy Innocents

It is a celebration of the life of any innocent who has died at the hands of tyrants, pursuing or merely suspected of pursuing, the cause of liberty and personal conscience

Commies, Kooks, or Savants?

Intelligence on this organization (New Tradition) from skeptics, pacifists, or others would be appreciated.

And You Thought the Starrish Inquisition Was Out of Hand....

Could you imagine this rumor in the United States, with the possible tweak of the rumor that Bill Clinton was trading blood for oil?

A Good Precedent

One Ethel Darlinger tried unsuccessfully to get her insuror, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, to pay for her expensive chemotherapy treatments. It dallied, delayed, and ultimately refused. The day following her funeral, her husband received the negative reply to their last appeal.

Peace On Earth Needs No Memorial

The next time there is a war...let's build a monument that honors all the casualties. Not just our dead, not just soldiers, but their dead, too, and any neutrals who happened to get in harm's way.

Lots More on Lott

Just the thought of the apologize-oh-matic "a Republican can do no wrong" crowd babbling on about the "meanness" of the Congressional Black Caucus in not accepting Lott's pathetic apology causes the contents of my dinner to back up in the vicinity of my appendix and consider turning back for where it first came in.

Bats in Her Basement

Fliedermaus fans will be in heaven as people talk about the good things bats can do, how to properly handle them, and how to build a bat house.

Should I be Insulted....?

I'm a white person who doesn't have a job. (And neither does my wife these days.) Of course I can't see things "as they are".

Tarnish on a Golden Legend
Today over at City of the Silent, I re-examine the legend of St. Barbara, a popular saint who was removed...

Homage to Liz

I know you love your child. I can see you pulling hairs out of your head.
And I know full well the stupidity of people.

If it had not been for JFK, you'd be dead

Andrew Greeley: Think back to those 13 days in October before you make your decision to choose virtue over competence.

Martyr for Religious Freedom

I just finished writing an article about a most unusual martyr -- a man who died not for his faith, but for the right of others to practice one with which he did not wholly concur.

Shame Us Into Peace?

Believe it or not, I did not find this link through blogdom's principal connoisseur of pornographic protest wKenshoW.

Aztec "Day of the Dead"

Watch out for the Candy Man!

Aortal - This Girl Thinks

Tuesday's an honest writer when it comes to her inner feelings. Though sometimes (as in this passage), she may let her fatalism get the better of her....

The Manatee Thinks of that Swim....

After reading Crazy Tracy's blog, maybe swimming out to sea isn't such a stupid idea?

Profiles in Courage

Stop the Bush Men.

Oh dear

Somehow, the intent of the constitutional amendment is thwarted by substituting the sick for the sick.

A Caption for wKenShow
I suggested this as a caption for a picture posted by wKenShow: Jeremiah 14: 14-16 "Then Yahweh said to me,...

Are You Infected?

Someone on #politics said that he'd heard that terrorists were spreading contaminated oranges.

You know, for once I saw this coming....
what's your order?...

My Multiple Personalities: An Official List
This blog isn't all of me. I've been on the net since 1988, handing out my email account to people...

Findings
Prostitute Rescue Organizations (Serious!) XXXChurch (The one serious link on Sister Taffy's page -- anti-porn exploitation) Surrealist Compliment Generator...

Findings
Jail the Bastards (Serious!) Mystery Museum Chupacabra Home Page Prawnography!...

Weird Links
Sister Taffy's Christian (Baptist) Home Without Sin Biblical Curse Generators...

Findings
Findings Surrounded by books, a librarian shares novel stories of life...

Ehumor I Have Found
Ehumor I Have Found Martha Stewart has a Stalker? One Nation, Sponsorship Opportunity Available...

Weird Web Pages The Rapture
Weird Web Pages The Rapture Index A Hole in the Head Recipes for Rats Virtual Autopsy...