If you see this post then you have reached the new server - where all appears to be working A-OK…
Anyone having any problems ?
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We’ve been having problems with our web hosting server - you’ve probably noticed the “site down for maintenance” errors that seem to come up every afternoon.
We’re moving the site to a different server/hosting company over the course of this weekend. Depending on how things go there may be a small amount of downtime. […]

It’s All Greek to Victor Davis Hanson
A quick post…
Via James Wolcott, this book review from earlier this month in The American Conservative is fascinating. It’s a review of neocon wingnut Victor David Hanson’s A War Like No Other.
What stood out for me in this review was its unambiguous condemnation of our war in Iraq […]

NPR : Teen Travels on Own to Iraq for Class
NPR talks on air to Jason Straziuso from Associated Press who unexpectedly “received” Farris Hassan at his Baghdad office. [Streaming Audio]

I’m excited about today’s MP3 post!
When I was a teen in the mid-1980s a dear friend of the family gave me an unusual birthday gift. It was a can with an olive drab label that said Survival Sampler: SR-1A Sound Rations. It had a pull top like a can of Pringles. Inside […]

World O’Crap
Vote for Ultimate Wingnut of 2005 on World of Crap.
Michelle and Jesse get my vote.

The Roger Toussaint (President of New York City’s Transit Worker’s Union) Wikipedia entry needs updating to reflect the end of the strike. At the moment the strike section of the article exhibits a strong anti-strike point of view (POV) which runs counter to Wikipedia policy on maintaining a neutral point of view (NPOV) in […]

Daily Kos: Have you seen the Nixon/Bush ad from the ACLU?
Something I missed yesterday via Atrios: a scan of a fantastic ad placed by the ACLU in the New York Times that begs the question - how much Presidential authority is too much?
My own question:
Whatever happened to the old-school conservatives like my great-uncle who […]

If you have visited the NSA web site lately your computer may have been cookied. Cookies as most of us know allow a web site to track your web surfing even after leaving the site. They also store information including your IP address. It is against federal law for a government web site to install […]

Who knew?
The disappearing comments were due to the popular drug name CIALIS playing an integral role in every soCIALISt here.
In light of this I wonder what the reasoning was behind Lilly Pharmaceuticals’ decision to call their drug CIALIS.
Labor Day celebrations frequented by workers with raging hard-ons?
Workers of the World - frolic around my May Pole.
[Update: […]