licentious radio

Tuesday, June 25, 2002
[11:53:54 PM]

sul-li-van n. A financial obligation not tallied against the score, granted in informal play after a poor performance, especially from a large accounting company. (dictionary.com)

Example: WorldCom, off by 3.6 BILLION DOLLARS.

[11:41:19 PM]
The hundred millionth monkey: "Once upon a time all the web monkeys used tiny type on their web pages. Most used font size=2. The artistic and the long-winded used font size=1. The forward-thinking, standards-compliant web monkeys used stylesheets: text-size: 11px."

[9:38:12 PM]
Banality of evil. Remember ol' Hannah Ahrendt? Maybe I don't. Seems to me, the banality of evil is that most evil isn't from people who seek to do evil, but from people who think they're (fucking) "nice", and just can't be bothered to do the right thing. Think of Americans driving SUVs. They've heard of global warming. They aren't stupid enough to believe anything Bush says about global warming. But they *still* drive their SUVs 20-40k miles per year because they want to go skiing or keep the dog off the seats.

[9:36:04 PM]
codebitch [macedition.com]: "As demonstrated by Sam-I-am and in a similar page here, IE5.x/Mac ignores the rule immediately following a CSS comment with a backslash in it. This is a bug, but may have constructive application for hiding particular style rules from these browser version."

For goodness sake! Don't *do* this for real websites. If it's a website nobody uses and you don't have control over the server anyway, ok. But otherwise, deliver the web from this sort of thing.

[3:14:50 PM]
Clipart Comics by M31: "...How dare you call yourself the leader of the free world? You aren't any kind of a leader!"

"That's OK, folks, you're not free, either."

[3:04:58 PM]
What's with AWOL? AWOL is when you go away, but come back. Bush didn't come back. He's a deserter, plain and simple.

[2:10:46 PM]
Ha ha. PoliticalStrikes.com has a picture of Gore saying "If the republicans hadn't've stolen the election from me, we wouldn't have a deficit. We wouldn't have a recession. We wouldn't have high unemployment. And we wouldn't have a war. But we would have two World Trade Center buildings... and three thousand more people would be alive."

I agree that it's implausible to think a Gore administration would have allowed the September 11 attacks.

But Gore? The Bush gang *tried* to steal the election. Gore didn't stop them. Does anybody think Clinton would have let them steal the election?

Gore's personal failure in Florida has screwed the whole planet. It would have been appropriate for Gore to fall on his sword. If he wants to come back, he damned well better win a string of political victories over Bush before he distracts democrats from picking someone who would do what it takes to WIN.

[1:44:49 PM]
I've pointed to Owen Briggs several times now.

He points to Just One Question for Alexis Massie [theobvious.com]: " If you're of a certain age, and happened to have traveled in certain circles, occasionally you'll let your mind wander back to the halcyon days -- when we were young, beautiful, and full of so much promise. Our days were filled with cappucinos, our nights with vodka tonics, and our browsers with something other than all these damned weblogs."

The article is worth reading just for the delight of words strung together with grace.

[1:21:38 PM]
MediaWhoresOnline.com is running one great rant on Nader.

I'd say the key piece is Ralph the Leninist [slate]: '...Nader has said similar things before. "When [the Democrats] lose, they say it's because they are not appealing to the Republican voters," Nader told an audience in Madison, Wis., a few months ago, according to a story in The Nation. "We want them to say they lost because a progressive movement took away votes." '

Surely there's no one who would claim Gore would have been nearly the force for evil that Bush is. Kyoto, Palestine, Iraq, civil liberties. Not that I'd want Gore as president, but the damage to the planet and the economy would have been vastly less.

[1:12:00 PM]
Bush's plan for mid-east peace: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

But seriously, it guarantees continued violence in Israel and Palestine. The only good news is that it might postpone the invasion of Iraq, but that could just be wishful thinking.