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Fire Dick Pound
Considering his supposed goal is to restore ethical integrity to international sports competitions, I can’t imagine a more ethically-challenged man than Dick Pound leading the WADA. He has always resorted to the dirtiest of smear campaigns when he couldn’t find any real evidence, and his sickening attempts to discredit Lance Armstrong (in conjunction with yellow…
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I Guess the Patriots…
aren’t the only team that gets disrespected. Hey, I’m not claiming the win against New England wasn’t ugly, or that Pittsburgh doesn’t look pretty scary going into the AFC Championship, but why is Denver the favorite punching bag for all the columnists today? The Patriots committed five turnovers, but somehow to these wags, that doesn’t…
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Pet Peeve #5 – Calling the GPL Viral
I get really irritated when pundits (usually those trying to stamp out Free Software) describe the GNU GPL as “viral” or “infectious.” You have to make a conscious decision to link your code against GPL code! You can’t get “infected” by the GPL through any means other than your own choice. If you don’t want…
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Pet Peeve #4 – The Stupidity of Pro-War Protesters
Being pro-war doesn’t make you patriotic, any more than being anti-war makes you unpatriotic. A century ago, we used the terms “hawk” and “dove” to describe those positions precisely because it is beyond insulting to use how you feel about a particular military conflict to pigeonhole you as patriotic or not. While I’m on the…
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Webserver Move (Again)
Once again, in my eternal quest to get good hosting on the cheap, I’ve moved servers yet again. If you’re seeing this message, the DNS has propagated, and it’s pointing to the new host at ServerPronto.
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Welcome, Bianca Ann!
It was a wild morning in the wee hours of Wednesday, July 20. Jennie felt what we guess now must have been her water breaking about 11:00PM (Tuesday night). We didn’t recognize it, though, and we went to bed anyway. Little did we know we’d have a baby a little over four hours later!
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Brilliant!
As a follow-up to my previous invective-laden diatribe, I thought you’d be interested to see that the same people who brought us welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com are at it again with tomcruiseisnuts.com. I particularly love their “disclaimer” at the bottom:
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Pet Peeve #3
People, especially lawmakers, who think the flag is more important than the things it represents, like say, the Constitution.
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Pet Peeve #2
Outside the door to my office, there’s a sign that reads: The following items are PROHIBITED in the Closed Area: … Any Transmittable devices … Having a device that could be transmitted (i.e. is transmittable) would be a neat trick!
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Pet Peeve #1
People who think “Support Our Troops” means supporting the President no matter what he does to put our troops’ lives in danger.