Monthly Archives: March 2003
New IndieCrit
Posted on March 31, 2003 4 Comments
I’ve converted IndieCrit over to Movable Type and updated it with a new review. Enjoy it in all its splendor.
A Little Something for the Video Game Geeks
Posted on March 31, 2003 6 Comments
Happiness is the 16th wave of the Unreal Tournament “Invasion” add-on, played on the Tokara Forest map, modified with Instagib sniper arena and low gravity. That is all.
Professor De Genova — Hero of the Right!
Posted on March 31, 2003 4 Comments
Right wingers (and people who don’t approve of blindingly stupid things said by educated people — not necessarily the same group) are piling on Columbia Professor Nicholas De Genova, for his comment at a “teach-in” in which he said, ” “The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military… […]
Visits, Blogging, Notify Lists
Posted on March 31, 2003 6 Comments
One of the unexpected side benefits of switching over to Movable Type seems to be that overall unique visits are way up: About 50% increase on work days and a 100% increase on weekends (which, by way of explanation, typically have fewer visits). The number of raw access is also way, way up, but that’s […]
Bad Interview
Posted on March 31, 2003 12 Comments
Ah, a prime candidate for an entry in my book on stupidity. Here’s the quiz. You’re a reporter, working for an American media organization (owned, incidentally, by one of the United States’ largest defense contractors) in a war zone with an enemy giving the United States government fits because it won’t just lay down and […]
Just 49 Miles!!!
Posted on March 30, 2003 12 Comments
“Speaking on the CBS News program ‘Face the Nation,’ General Myers said he had full faith in the war plan, adding ‘I just can’t explain why people are sniping at it.’ And Mr. Rumsfeld, speaking on the ABC News program ‘This Week,’ said, ‘We’re within 49 miles of Baghdad, and there are all these people […]
Comment Thread Rules
Posted on March 30, 2003 7 Comments
Here are the rules as they regard posting in comment threads. This is not a democracy. As Sylvester Stallone said in that classic of futuristic jurisprudence, Judge Dread, — “I am the law!” (actually, Stallone says something like “Huhhhyeeehamdelaaaaaw!” But you know where I’m going). This is to say that I reserve all rights to […]
The War as Advertised
Posted on March 29, 2003 10 Comments
Dubya, Rumsfeld et al are half right when they bitch about the second-guessing they’ve been getting in the press. The half they’ve got right is that it’s utterly ridiculous to judge how the war’s going when we’re less than two weeks in; it’s like deciding you don’t like an entire opera based solely on the […]
Cavalcade of Comments I
Posted on March 29, 2003 11 Comments
I think it’ll be fun to every once in a while highlight and comment on some of the comments I get from the various postings — a way to let people know I’m reading while at the same time giving me a cheap and easy source of things to write about. It’s the circle of […]
Lineup Change
Posted on March 28, 2003 1 Comment
Not that anyone cares, but I swapped out Romensko on my “Other” links with Penny Arcade! The online comic strip about video games. Why? Because I like it! Also, today’s cartoon is yet another classic. I have no illusions that I’ll be, you know, boosting their visibility, since on the average day they get roughly […]
Murder in a Small Town
Posted on March 28, 2003
I live in bucolic splendor, but that doesn’t mean bad things don’t happen: Two found dead of gunshot wounds at farmhouse By Ben Sutherly Miami County Bureau ADAMS TWP., Darke County | Deputies found two people dead of gunshot wounds in a farmhouse bedroom Thursday after a 4-year-old boy showed up at a church a […]
Administrative Note
Posted on March 28, 2003
Because it seemed prudent at this juncture, I’ve added a disclaimer.
The Confederate State of Iraq
Posted on March 28, 2003
“The attacks we’re seeing are bizarre — technical vehicles [pickups] with .50 calibers and every kind of weapon charging tanks and Bradleys,” Wallace added, referring to the M1 Abrams tanks and M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles used by the Army. “It’s disturbing to think that someone can be that brutal.” — “General: A Longer War Likely,” […]
The Romulan Ambassador to TV
Posted on March 28, 2003
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a picture of Richard Perle that isn’t like this: Gob open, eyebrows arched, looking vaguely irritated that those at whom he is pontificiating can’t understand the fundamental rightness of whatever bit of horrifying spew he’s masticating on before spitting it up onto the desk of whichever Sunday morning talk […]
Technology Report
Posted on March 28, 2003 4 Comments
The more I fiddle with Movable Type, the more I realize how stupid easy it is to use (which is, I suspect, why so many people use it). I am having to roll my own coding whenever I want to insert a picture or other non-trivial HTML thing, but so far that’s not a real […]
The PETA-ization of Protest
Posted on March 27, 2003
I endorse and applaud Americans who want to protest the war, since even though I don’t agree with their point of view on the matter, it’s always nice to see people exercising their First Amendment rights so they don’t get flabby and weak. Having said that, walking out into the middle of a Manhattan intersection […]
Another Thought on Comments
Posted on March 27, 2003 4 Comments
Here’s my going line on comments v. e-mail: If you post a comment, I’m going to feel free to comment on it publicly, since, after all, it’s a public comment. I’ll either respond in the thread or if it’s especially interesting to me, make an entry out of it. If you send me an e-mail […]
How Long How Many
Posted on March 27, 2003 1 Comment
Ooooh, I like the comments feature. It’s so immediate feedback-rific! From the comments in “What You Don’t Want to Hear,” this comment: “Your post begs the following questions: “If our war planners underestimated Iraqi resistance, have they also been overconfident about how easy it will be to occupy Iraq after the war? “How many American […]
Dear God, Save Me From Your Followers
Posted on March 27, 2003
I don’t know how we managed it, but we’re on the call list for the National Coalition for Prayer, a group which, as you may imagine, is comprised of people who think prayer is pretty neat and that everyone should do it, although it’s unclear whether they care whether you want to do it or […]
What You Don’t Want to Hear
Posted on March 27, 2003 5 Comments
“Overhanging all developments in the war this week is the unsettling realization that thousands of Iraqis are willing to fight vigorously. During planning for the invasion, worst-case scenarios sometimes predicated stiff resistance, but ‘no one took that very seriously,’ an officer said.” — “War Could Last Months, Officers Say,” Washington Post 3/27/2003 I’m not at […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying