Thanks to Gethen, I’ve got the header image and RSS issues sorted out. She showed me how to redirect the feeds using a .htaccess file, and edited the header image so that it’s a smaller download but looks infinitely wide. Although it’s now just 626 pixels wide, she adjusted the image to repeat without obvious seams.
Now, to think up some kind of content or something.
Oh yes, the Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York,” a tale of being locked up for public drunkenness on Christmas day. Sample lyrics: “You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot, Merry Christmas my arse, I pray god it’s our last!”
First, there was the same-sex marriage ban written into the Virginia state constitution. Then, the Episcopals signing up with the Nigerian Anglicans rather than have gays ordained. And now Congressman Virgil Goode braying about Congressman Ellison of Minnesota and the Muslim hordes (see also this article).
What the hell, guys?
Marijuana is our nation’s leading cash crop, and the ONDCP says that’s a bad thing. After all, Colombia’s biggest cash crop is coca, and Afghanistan’s biggest cash crop is opium poppies, and it hasn’t gone well for them.
That’s a pretty stupid comparison. Afghanistan wasn’t doing any better under the Taliban, when opium was not a leading crop. Colombia’s problem is not coca, but the criminal activities (and near-civil-war) it funds.
Honestly now, if we legalized and taxed marijuana — and stopped locking people up for nonviolent drug crimes– we’d have enough money to pay for the war in Iraq and social security. I don’t see why the entire balanced budget lobby doesn’t get on that issue right now.
This is a pretty clever video, and I’m sure NBC is congratulating itself on putting together an “edgy viral campaign.” But it’s 2006, and they’ve just discovered that they can say “dick” on the Internet, and Saturday Night Live had its best moments before I was born.
Those of you who read this through a feed, have a look at the actual page: all new and now in color. It’s not quite perfect yet– that picture of lychee nuts at the top of the page is misshapen and way too heavy a download– but it does have the advantage of being all WordPressy and colorful. Let me know if you have opinions.
A company contracted to build the fence along the US/Mexico border just got busted for hiring illegal immigrants. Again.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Shorter Jeff Jacoby: Without angels on Christmas cards, our society is amoral.
(See Busy Busy Busy for a long evolution of the “Shorter …” concept).
Greenwald compares popularity, and finds that the war in Iraq is less poopular than every third rail issue out there: gay marriage, legalizing pot, banning handguns… everything.
I guess that tells you more about political reality and the fickle nature of human opinion than it does about the war, though.
Secretly Ironic 