(via Dark Bilious Vapors) NOMINATED AS ONE OF CHICAGO’S WONDERS: Chicago Hot Dogs : Not much in this world is perfect. The Chicago Hot Dog is perfect. Boiled or steamed, not grilled, it lies regally in a lightly steamed poppy-seed bun and is anointed with: Diced onion Tomato wedges Pickle relish the color of Kryptonite [...]
Archive of entries posted on August 2005
Five reasons NOT to use Linux
(via Linux-Watch) Reason number one: Linux is too complicatedEven with the KDE and GNOME graphical windowing interfaces, it’s possible — not likely, but possible — that you’ll need to use a command line now and again, or edit a configuration file. Compare that with Windows where, it’s possible — not likely, but possible — that [...]
You don’t have to teach both sides of a debate, if one side is a load of crap
New Rule: You don’t have to teach both sides of a debate, if one side is a load of crap. Now, President Bush recently suggested that public schools should teach intelligent design, alongside the theory of evolution. Because, after all, evolution is quote, “just a theory.” Then the President renewed his vow to drive the [...]
Radical cleric Pat Robertson issuse a fatwa against Hugo Chavez
(from the this sort of thing makes the baby Jesus cry dept.) Robertson called for the assassination of Venezuela’s president: You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot [...]
At Least I’m not Milton…
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Conservative Blogger Lexicon
(via Eschaton) Update your dictionaries! rac·ism n. Disagreeing with or disliking Michelle Malkin sex·ism n. Disagreeing with or disliking Michelle Malkin ho·mo·pho·bi·a n. 1. Making fun of Jeff Gannon 2. Making fun of The Claremont Institute’s John Hindraker’s gay-porny nom de keyboard 3. Disagreeing with Andrew Sullivan when Andrew Sullivan is agreeing with Bush an·ti-Sem·i·tism [...]
Gazpacho Soup
(from the healthy alternative to this dept.) It was the greatest night of my life. I’d been invited to the Captain’s Table. I’d only been with the company fourteen years. Six officers and me! They called me “Arnold.” We had gazpacho soup for starters. I didn’t know gazpacho soup was meant to be served cold. [...]
Pleistocene Park
(from the there may yet be a future in elephant ranching dept.)
God is a waffler
NEW RULE: God is a waffler. Pat Robertson said God told him that Iraq would be a bloody disaster. But the same God told George Bush it wouldn’t, which so surprised Robertson, he almost dropped the pennies he was stealing off a dead woman’s eyes. But why is God talking out of two sides of [...]
Yet Another Light Bulb Joke
(printed by fortune in one of my terminal windows today) Q: How many crew members of the U.S.S. Enterprise does it take to change a light bulb? A: Seven. Scotty has to report to Captain Kirk that the light bulb in the Engineering Section is getting dim, at which point Kirk will send Bones to [...]
