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Beastie Boys new album, To the 5 Boroughs, coming June 15th. Maggie will be buying this and sending it to me. Hopefully I will have it before the end of July:)

Go here. It will make your keyboard look all funny.

Hasta luego party at Maggie’s house: Saturday. Tomorrow. No rain?

Well the outcry against Movable Type 3.0 seems to be pretty unanimous and, as I see it, fairly understandable. That being said I have one blog and am the sole author; therefore this does not effect me, as I still fall under the free version limitations. I looked into Drupal, but with only two [...]

Sasser is a silly virus. Silly in this case is a very derogatory term. This is compounded by the inherent evil/sadness that is/are all things Microsoft. XP

I have a liberal bias. I’m like the media… No. But don’t take my word, which is of the sad minority, for it. Levar Burton is nowhere to be found in the forthcoming excerpt, sorry. Instead I shall provide this excerpt from a Salon.com article, of course, written by David Brock.

Ironically, though not coincidentally, this radical transformation of the media has been obscured by conservative charges of “liberal media bias” that are believed by the vast majority of the public, including about half of Democrats. I’m all too familiar with the claim. From my very first days at the Washington Times, I was schooled to invoke “liberal bias” to deflect attention from my own biases and journalistic lapses and as a rationale to justify my presence in the mainstream media conversation in the name of providing “balance” or “the other side.” We sold a lot of books and magazines and commanded lavish attention for our propaganda outside the right wing by using this cover story. Whole article here Remember the whole free day pass thing.

Continue reading I have a Liberal Bias

I realize this has nothing to do with Lesotho, but this blog is mine and therefore cannot be entirely focused. Anyway I read an article about a speech given by Kurt Vonnegut at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut. In it he quotes Abraham Lincoln as follows:

“Trusting to escape scrutiny by fixing [...]

Via /., Mp3.com has returned as a part of Cnet’s network of content. The MP3.com site will redirect you to here. Slashdot talks about how few artists are signed up, but given the past number, I think that hasty or not, MP#.com’s return will eventually flourish. Though I will say that I think much [...]