/cgi/wp Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:35:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While tripping through the The Carnival of Elitist Bastards post, I happened upon Mr. O'Risal's refutation of Berg The Creationist. Mr. Berg comments that the poor cockroach may have had the intelligence to last a million years. "Whoa there!" Mr. O'Risal says: By the way, insects have been around ... /cgi/wp/?p=19 In comment 3 to this post about Denver's red-light cameras, Dr. Gridlock wrote: "In a community in the state of Washington, in response to red light camera system system proposed by city council, some local citizens started a ballot initiative that would divert the proceeds to funding a congestion ... /cgi/wp/?p=18 Back 1971, we were living in Newton Highlands, one of the 13 villages that make up Newton, Massachusetts and that also happens to sit on the MBTA Green Line, the light rail line that runs from downtown Boston to the western edge of Newton (basically route 128). My father ... /cgi/wp/?p=16 I spoke in an undergraduate class today. As a friend of mine has said a few times about her students, pretty soon you're going to have to explain to them what the Lewinsky scandal was. This isn't a comment on the quality of the students, just that the degree to ... /cgi/wp/?p=14 So Roger started watching "John Adams" on HBO, and wrote a review of it here. He noted: I was never much interested in History. I don’t even remember taking many history classes in school. All I remember is that the past bored me to tears, especially American history. As I ... /cgi/wp/?p=13 A few days ago, I wondered just where Hillary was going with her 3AM ad -- just how she was going to dig her self out of that rhetorical hole she put herself in after Denver. Turns out there was a possibility that I never even considered, probably because, ... /cgi/wp/?p=12 Now, if Clinton had just left it at the very plausible “He hasn’t been around the block”, I think I could have lived with that. In fact, I wonder myself if he isn’t a bit young. Obama is only in his mid-forties, and there certainly is an argument that he’s ... /cgi/wp/?p=11 Well, it had to happen -- someone had to go negative, and it makes sense that it was Hillary Rodham Clinton. Even without Bill's foreshadowing earlier this winter, I had this feeling it would be Hillary that would start the Flame Wars. The kickoff to this war really ... /cgi/wp/?p=10 A few weeks back I babbled on as to how Obama's success wasn't, as NPR's Juan Williams was suggesting, all due to traditional race-based Identity Politics, but perhaps maybe it was due to age-based Identity Politics. Flash forward a few weeks, Obama pretty much buried Clinton in an avalanche ... /cgi/wp/?p=9 University Zoka, originally uploaded by Gregory Sawyer.Tonight, on KIRO-TV's Six O'Clock News, they asked a supposedly panic-stricken public just where to go when Starbucks closes tonight? Well, here's a few suggestions:Zoka Coffee (Seattle) Dunn Brothers Coffee (St. Paul, Minneapolis, etc) Caribou Coffee (St. Paul, Minneapolis, etc) Cahoots Coffee (St. Paul)Not to mention the ... /cgi/wp/?p=8