The RPV, caught in a lie, won’t even admit it.
This is just pathetic: Virginia Republicans launched a pair of attack ads Wednesday questioning whether Reps. Tom Perriello, D-5th District, and Rick Boucher, D-9th District, joined with other congressional Democrats who applauded Mexican President Felipe Calderon last week for urging an assault weapons ban. The problem, the Los Angeles Times pointed out Thursday, was neither [...]
links for 2010-05-28
Life: The Little Girl in Grave 1565 From Life's November 1991 issue, an account of an fire investigator's efforts to track down the identity of a little girl who died in a massive circus fire in 1944. Nearly fifty years later, he solves the mystery of her identity, figures out how the fire really started, [...]
links for 2010-05-21
Washington Post: Oil drilling off Va.'s shore would interfere with military, defense study says Add the U.S. military to the list of groups opposed to McDonnell's drilling plan. Of the three million square miles that he wants to open to drilling, only six percent of that area wouldn't interfere with military activities, and even that [...]
links for 2010-05-20
NPR: Nun Excommunicated For Allowing Abortion When faced with a woman eleven weeks pregnant who would die—along with her child—if her pregnancy continued, the administrator of a Catholic hospital agreed that they would provide an abortion to save the life of the mother. She was permitted to do so under a church directive that permits [...]
The RPV doesn’t dare speak badly of gay rights.
The Republican Party of Virginia sent out an e-mail to supporters today, complaining about President Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Kagan, famously, joined in an amicus brief in a lawsuit fighting the Solomon Amendment, the law that prohibits federal funding to universities that bar military recruiters from their campus. Kagan did [...]
links for 2010-05-14
Baron Schwartz: Checking for a live database connection considered harmful Baron explains why checking for a working DB connection at the head of your code in website development is actually a pretty bad idea. And I'll be damned if he's not right. I've been doing this for years, but I'll stop now. (tags: mysql php [...]
links for 2010-05-12
The Big Picture: Disaster unfolds slowly in the Gulf of Mexico Today's Big Picture has dozens of images from the oil spill in the Gulf. Some are pretty striking. (tags: environment gulf oil pollution) New York Times: The Science of a Happy Marriage When presented as an abstract concept, people in committed relationships will rate [...]
links for 2010-05-11
Dogster: What Causes "Frito Feet"? A lot of dogs end up with a smell not entire unlike corn chips. I thought it was just our dogs. It turns out to come from a bacteria that grows between their foot pads. (tags: pets dog) The Minimalist: Asparagus Pesto Packs Plenty of Flavor Mark Bittman provides a [...]
How to have a house built with your sanity intact.
Here are a few hard-learned tips about how to deal with the procedural aspects of working with your general contractor when building a house. Let your builder pick his own subs. You might think that it’s a good idea to have that good friend of your good friend pave the driveway, or your aunt’s neighbor [...]
The house is nearly complete.
We’re this close to finishing building our house. It’s occupied an enormous amount of time for years now (for example, I spent six hours milling lumber from felled trees today), and while I know we’ll have a lot of work even once we move in a couple-few weeks from now, I’m looking forward to getting [...]
links for 2010-05-06
New York Times: New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer The President’s Cancer Panel has made some alarming recommendations about what to avoid if you want to avoid cancer. Eat organic. Avoid BPA. (tags: cancer health) New Scientist: Neanderthal genome reveals interbreeding with humans Not 100% of African descent? Congratulations, you're part neanderthal. The beautiful [...]
links for 2010-05-05
New York Times: BP Says One Oil Leak of Three Is Shut Off "In a closed-door briefing for members of Congress, a senior BP executive conceded Tuesday that the ruptured oil well could conceivably spill as much as 60,000 barrels a day of oil, more than 10 times the estimate of the current flow." Jesus. [...]
Family Research Council founder goes a’twinking.
Family Research Council co-founder (along with James Dobson) George Rekers hired a 20-year-old male prostitute for a ten-day trip to Europe. Rekers, a prominent leader of the anti-gay movement, says that he just needed somebody to haul his luggage for him due to an injury…so he went to Rentboy.com and selected a call boy. (I [...]
links for 2010-05-04
Wikipedia: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo This is a grammatically accurate, syntactically meaningful sentence. Rearranged, with some helper words, it reads: "the buffalo from Buffalo who are buffaloed by buffalo from Buffalo also buffalo the buffalo from Buffalo." (tags: language english grammar wikipedia) Bad Astronomy: New evidence of (transient) liquid water on [...]
links for 2010-05-03
The Sun: Sniper Craig Harrison kills 2 Taliban from a record 1.54 miles The distance record for a confirmed kill by a sniper has been beat by a British soldier in Afghanistan. Using a state-of-the-art Accuracy International AWM, he hit two machine gun operators with two consecutive shots after they targeted his commander. The shot [...]
The state seal used to have more nudity.
Cuccinelli’s office says that they’ve simply reverted to an older version of the state seal. And that may be true, but that’s not the whole story. Benton J. Lossing’s An Outline History of the United States, published in 1875, shows the seal of Virginia on page 77. As of 1875, it looked like this: And [...]
The Attorney General is censoring the state seal. Srsly.
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has devolved into self-parody: Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is opting for a more modest depiction of the state’s seal. The seal depicts the Roman goddess Virtus wearing a blue tunic draped over one shoulder with her left breast exposed. But on the new lapel pins Cuccinelli recently handed out to [...]
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