I'm bored, so I will utter the magic words that makes our Court Jester appear:

"Cedarford...Cedarford...Cedarford."

Now maybe this place will start hopping.

Here's a cool one: Hardware problems continuing.

We're still getting drive errors, though now they're coming from the other drive. We'll be replacing it this weekend; we should only be down for an hour or so unless we completely screw it up.

It's not nearly as bad as before, but you may notice that sometimes a comment won't post or a page doesn't load properly the first time. Just try again and it should come right.

All the backups have been updated, so at least I won't have to go through that again.

Jim Treacher: Man dies after being fucked by horse.

Not a fake story. Really happened.

The valuable thing I learned from this story: Bestiality isn't against the law in Washington (nor in sixteen other states); however, "[p]olice are still making sure that sex was not forced on the smaller, weaker animals, thus constituting animal cruelty (which is a crime)."

Free soap box? I’ll take that bait. Here’s a thought piece for anyone in the mood for deep thinking:

Many people are saying that American leftist self-loathing, combined with our cherished First Amendment, creates a weakness that may prove our downfall when skillfully exploited by Jihadistan and its MSM allies. Actually, there is a considerable irony here (there’s probably a more accurate word than “irony,” but I can’t think of what it is.)

The true strength of Jihadistanlies in its unwavering belief in and adherence to the words of their prophet. However, it is this same faith that for 1400 years has kept them in the Dark Ages politically and technologically.

By contrast, the true strength of America has always been our willingness to challenge the received wisdom of the past and to seek empirically-superior “truths.” Our strength is, in a word, doubt. It is this deeply-held spirit of empirical scepticism that has made us far superior to Jihadistan in matters political and technological.

However, doubt cannot be compartmentalized; so this same doubt must inevitably be applied to our foreign policy decisions, even where (as here) the correct answers would seem rather obvious. It is therefore unavoidable that Jihadistan’s “strength” finds an easy target in our “weakness” (i.e., our doubt).

I am confident that our doubt-based-system will prevail over their faith-based-system. But this is yet another reminder that the greater of two goods (or the lesser of two evils) is not ipso facto perfect.

I get to follow that up? Screw that.

I thought most of Bush's supporters were "faith-based."

Pat Boone is on f'n fire!

Pixy,

Seagate Elite series SCSI drives.

They weigh 10lb, sound like a jet taking off, and have a MTBF (literally) of about 50 years. I swear by them. They never fail.

"I thought most of Bush's supporters were "faith-based.""

That's what gets you lefties into so much trouble. Thinking. You're not equipped to do it properly. So, what you should have said is "I have a feeling most of Bush's supporters were "faith-based". Hope this helps.

Some amazing stuff from Michael Yon. Go ye and read of it, for it is good.

Seriously, this guy is the Ernie Pyle of the Iraq War. This last post (along with pictures!) is some of the scariest you-are-there combat reporting I've ever read.

Brewfan, actually that was not very helpful. And, it's quite a sweeping pronouncement you make that lefties are not equipped to think properly. That's a pretty startling revelation. I assume you also include one of our most famous lefties, Albert Einstien. No, actually your premise is all wrong anyway. There is no difference between thoughts and feelings. They both originate in the brain. I hope I cleared that up for you.

Bill - I stand by what I said. Being "faith-based" may have a number of benefits, but technological progress is NOT one of them.

Tony, the Elite series drives were great, but I think they stopped making them ten years ago.

Having said that, I am shopping around for new servers - plural. Having mirrored disks is great, but mirrored servers is even better.

Hillary Duff has the #1 album in the country. What the fuck? REALLY? I MEAN, WHAT THE FUCK? WHAT THE FUCKIN FUCK?

Dear Modern Music industry:

I hate you so much. So very much. You have worked hard to remove music from my life and done your job completely. I live a near musicless existence thanks to you. Didn't have to be like this. Used to love music. Used to love the radio. No more.

We are enemies. If I ever meet you, I will kill you. Seriously. And if I'm not going to make a big vengeful production out of it either, just walk up behind you, pull the trigger, drop the gun and slip into a mall. You are dead. Dead.

Hilary Duff is to music, what Howard Duff is...to music.

And for people who don't like music, there's always rap! Or John Tesh. Some time ago, I watched in horrid fascination something called "John Tesh: Live at Red Rock!" I shit you not. It was what a friend of mine might describe as "high energy/low interest." There was a lot going on--violinists, kettle drums, big swatches of colorful fabrics blowing like the banners proclaiming the destruction of Western Music, as though Cristal had done the set decor--but none of it had any impact. It was not possible to give a shit. It wasn't even amusing unintentionally. It was like the Children's shows Kim Il-Jong's North Korea stages for visiting journalists; or like that Star Trek episode where the semi-omnipotent guy conjurs up a buffet for Kirk's hostage party, and everything looks like food, but is wholly without flavor. It was freaky. In a boring sort of way.