a crank’s progress

Washington Post Scrapes Bottom Of Barrel To Find People Who Think War Isn’t “Lost”
Brad Delong give the Post 10 years to live. This is why.
(tags: media journamalism)

So what do you do when your menubar clock freezes?
This [ kill -15 185 ] seems a little harsh (185 was the pid of the SystemUIServer application that manages the menubar).
But nothing else I tried worked. I tried:

toggling the settings for the clock in the Date/Time PreferencePane
toggling the settings for the clock in the [...]

On Obsidian Wings: Everything They Touch Turns To Dross, this comment appeared:
I’ve believed since the mid 1990s that a virulent tax revolt (as in, no Republican government at any level is permitted to collect taxes) on a national scale, from the Left, would introduce a sexy new element into one of the radical Right’s long-juiced [...]

I Love Journalists
why is anonymity bad when citizen-journalists/bloggers use it but good when government employees do?
(tags: journamalism media ethics)

Ezra Klein: In Praise of Jug-ears
Ezra takes up a defense of Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor and the comments present a more rational view of a feudal lord, no matter how benevolent, in the 21st century.
(tags: monarchy politics economics values culture)

Mozy for the Mac
this is worth a look: free encrypted backups, first 2 Gb are [...]

What really bothers the creationists:
And the compromise path offered by scientists of Christian faiths, that God created Deep Time and set evolution in motion? That’s saying God created the world with sex, and nothing bothers the fundies more than saying God used sex to create something.

The Queer Thing About School Shooters, Pt 1. at The Republic of T.
this and part II are worth reading. The rash of school shootings of recent years might have a common root.
(tags: education culture values children schools violence)

So if I signed up to do Hike For Discovery, would you be interested in sponsoring me?
The trip that grabbed my interest was Kauai and the fundraising goal for that is $4950. But the others — Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountain National Park — are also pretty appealing and I expect a lot less [...]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Back from DC now, with no ba…:
It’s like the subjects — targets, cans, compasses, legs, and assorted gee-gaws — so mesmerized him, simple as they were, that they became mysteries that he had to paint his way out of.

GUESS THE SENATOR WHO SAID…
“Mr. President, our mission in ________ is over. It is time to come home. Our mission in ________ was to feed a million starving _______ who needed to be fed. It was not an open-ended commitment. It was not a commission of nation building, not warlord hunting, or any of the [...]