And NOW I noticed a whole new group — err – trio of commenters. New home plug:
dgood1.typepad.com
Same guy, less bitterness (not that I was ever bitter in the first place … I just ripped off the name of a Soul Coughing song … and it wasn’t even one of my favorites!).
Typepad lured me away with their Journalist Bailout Program, which offered me free Pro membership — with ads — for free, if I could just prove i was a pitiful, livelihood-threatened journalist. They did require a usable link to some of my dinosaur-media copy posted online, so you can’t con your way into this sweet gig easily.
I work for a newspaper (you know, the OTHER industry losing money hand over fist, with leaders teetering toward bankruptcy). Six-Apart felt sorry for me, and actually lent a hand; with that, they earned my eternal allegiance.
WordPress is kinda dead to me now. So if you’ve commented, and not been replied, or visited and lamented the lack of fresh content (not that I actually believe anyone gave enough of a fuck to do any of that), but if you have, visit me at my new digs:
dgood1.typepad.com
I’ll come back later and hyperlink all this.

I moved again, to dgood1.typepad.com

And NOW I noticed a whole new group — err – trio of commenters. New home plug:
dgood1.typepad.com
Same guy, less bitterness (not that I was ever bitter in the first place … I just ripped off the name of a Soul Coughing song … and it wasn’t even one of my favorites!).
Typepad lured me away with their Journalist Bailout Program, which offered me free Pro membership — with ads — for free, if I could just prove i was a pitiful, livelihood-threatened journalist. They did require a usable link to some of my dinosaur-media copy posted online, so you can’t con your way into this sweet gig easily.
I work for a newspaper (you know, the OTHER industry losing money hand over fist, with leaders teetering toward bankruptcy). Six-Apart felt sorry for me, and actually lent a hand; with that, they earned my eternal allegiance.
WordPress is kinda dead to me now. So if you’ve commented, and not been replied, or visited and lamented the lack of fresh content (not that I actually believe anyone gave enough of a fuck to do any of that), but if you have, visit me at my new digs:
dgood1.typepad.com
I’ll come back later and hyperlink all this.

battle can’t damage Marines’ resolve.

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Awesome corner store

I wanna live on Haberdasher Street, just to get beer and smokes here.
Cheap Booze on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

reunited and it feels so good

My main computer — a frankenstein’s monster of a desktop — is finally back in action. For months now, I’ve been using one of three worn out, outdated laptops (whichever one was fully functional at the time). I had almost forgotten what Windows XP looked like, since the newest OS the laptops would handle was Millennium Edition.
But now, Prime and I have been reunited, after my father and I finally cut enough time out of our busy schedules to get it up and running again.
I’d almost forgotten how nice my dedicated desk-space was; being able to sit down and get to work right away, without first clearing the coffee table of sippie-cups and bills, is vastly underrated.

FDRs Policies Prolonged Depression by 7 Years, UCLA Economists Calculate / UCLA Newsroom

Just because so many knowledge-averse democrats insist otherwise … 

via FDRs Policies Prolonged Depression by 7 Years, UCLA Economists Calculate / UCLA Newsroom.

Government intervention never helps in the long run. It might alleviate a few small pains for the ‘little people,’ but the actual cause of their miseries still fester, and are often made worse.

Just to be safe, the cached Sarah Palin wiki entry

Now that she’s been announced as the Republican nominee for vice president, I imagine the moonbat “editors” at Wikipedia will begin scrubbing anything positive out of her entry. So here’s a link to the cached version, via Google. 

Sarah Palin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Vice President Sarah Palin: I like this lady already

From her Wiki entry, we learn that Gov. Sarah Palin:

• was a 1984 runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant
• Was the point guard and captain for the Wasilla High School Warriors, in Wasilla, Alaska. Palin led Wasilla Warriors to the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982, playing the championship game with a stress fracture in her ankle and hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds.
• She received a scholarship to attend the University of Idaho, where she received a journalism degree. 
• She briefly worked as a sports reporter at an Anchorage television station

So she’s a former almost-beauty queen; I’ve observed the runner-up is usually the best selection at pageants (winners are apple polishers, which the runners-up are too proud to do everything it takes to win, or too pretty for jealous female judges to validate). 

She wasn’t simply an athlete in high school. She was a super-bad, play-through-pain leader on a state championship basketball team. 

She attended University of Idaho, which means a McCain win will let the entire nation get “Vandalized!”

And she’s a former sports reporter! I was already pretty likely to choose McCain. But by adding Palin to the ticket, Maverick just earned my undying loyalty and respect.

I was going to hold my nose and pull the lever for him; now, I’m in love.

Some (protein) wisdom on the drinking age.

Faced with 100 or so college presidents calling for the lowering of the drinking age — back to 18 — Mothers Against Drunk Driving responds predictably. 

“But think of the children, yadda blah blah yadda.”

Goldstein notes accurately what MADD’s true agenda is. 

• MADD is no longer worried about drunk driving per se, but is rather become a neoprohibitionist organization trafficking in emotional arguments to convince cowardly politicians to force change upon the culture — “change” that has the effect of taking away individual freedom and responsibility, along with the role of parents in teaching young adults how to handle certain freedoms, in exchange for a government run mandate, complete with police powers of the state or municipality, that presumes to usurp those responsibilities by a kind of 3/5 rule on adulthood

protein wisdom.

America’s Georgians beclown themselves.

When Google was mistaking Georgia, the republic recently invaded by Russia, with Georgia, the state with peaches and an underachieving baseball team, it was hilarious. One early story on Russia’s incursion on a sovereign neighbor had a map attached — courtesy Google Maps — suggesting that armored columns would soon descend on Savannah.

But like so many ignorant and dim folks, the American breed of Georgians just couldn’t keep their mouths shut.  

South Ossetia conflict: Concerned US citizen gets her Georgias confused – Telegraph.

Someone named Jessica B posted comments at Yahoo certain to extend every stupid stereotype of Southerners by another few years.  

• “I live in georegia but i dont see rusia no where not even sound but they says theres tanks should i be worrie”. “i herd on the news that rusia has invaded but i dont see them no where wats going on,” she continued. Her mind was presumably put at rest by a fellow contributor, who reassured her with the words “You are in the state of Georgia. The nation of Georgia is on the other side of the world”. It is unclear whether the original post stems from a genuine geographical error or whether it is a hoax, but it has become a viral internet phenomenon, with over 4000 people recommending it on the Digg.com website.

A famous saying usually attributed to Abraham Lincoln seems appropriate: 

• “Better to remain seated and be thought a fool, than to stand and remove all doubt.”