(Okay onto Super Bowls for my Smorgasbords. 
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I need to find more songs by The Hold Steady. I heard their song Hornets! Hornets! on a podcast and loved it.
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Today’s Front Pages. An incredibly cool flash site where you can see the front pages of newspapers all over the world.
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Hey Ritchie Mitch - there is no place for the Ten Commandments on the grounds of MY Indiana Statehouse. For me, it’s Commandment #1 that’s the deal breaker and invalidates anyone who says that the Commandments can Be a non-religious basis for laws. (You know, the whole “no other gods before me” B.S.) #2 is pretty silly too, (if I’ve got them in the right order in my head). Atheists, agnostics and non-Christians exist in this state and we have the right to be treated and regarded just as equally as everyone else.
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About the Pacers’ 1st round draft pick: “Granger, who is a Jehovah’s Witness, grew up in a strict family where swearing, drinking, smoking and drugs weren’t allowed. Academics were at the top of the list.” Am I the only one that can’t wait for the first time he goes out with Ron Artest & Stephen Jackson? The Unintentional Comedy potential is sky high.
This looks really cool but I don’t have the time/patience/skills to figure out how to use the visualzation perl code to make it look pretty. But if he does release a bundled Java ap for this (like he says he might in the comments) that would be super swell.
When I first saw that the Pacers had drafted Danny Granger of New Mexico, and that they had passed on Francisco Garcia, I was pissed. But the more I read about this Granger kid, the more I like him.
“As well as his strong resume as a player, he was an accomplished student, a civil engineering major who turned down a scholarship to Yale”
He turned down Yale? Hopefully just the fact that he earned took on a major like civil engineering and had a shot at Yale shows he has a head on his shoulders. We could use a few more players like that *cough*ronartest*cough*
A few more articles on the Pacers getting Granger
Everyone seems to agree the Pacers got a steal. Too bad more and more of ESPN.com’s content is locked behind the “Insider” wall, or I’d read it.
(An aside rant, ESPN putting so much more of their content behind the pay wall will start hurting their website. Why pay for information when there are more and more sports blogs and other free analysis sites with opinions just as good. And without Stephen A. Smith.)
A final NBA note, send your positive vibes out to former Pacers draft pick and current Minnesota Timberwolves guard Fred Hoiberg, who had heart surgery at the Mayo Clinic.
Ripped off wholesale from Hunter @ Kos:
Tonight Bush Sez:
“The terrorists can kill the innocent - but they cannot stop the advance of freedom. The only way our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons of September 11 … if we abandon the Iraqi people to men like Zarqawi … and if we yield the future of the Middle East to men like Bin Laden.”
About Zarqawi…. you know, it’s too bad we never had a chance to get rid of him even before this whole messy war in Iraq started. After all, he has ties to al-Qaida, goign after him would have been actually fighting the war on terror, etc etc.
With Tuesday’s attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq.
But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger. […]
Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.
You’ve GOT to be fucking kidding me. We didn’t go after a REAL terrorist for fear it would undercut our case for attacking a non-terrorist, in turn opening up a whole middle eastern nation to lots MORE terrorists.
Fuck.
Will the Freeway Blogger’s “Summer of Truth” hit Indy? Who knows. Stay tuned.
I finally broke down and installed iTunes (at work, on my home computer soon). I’m liking it more and more. I broke down and bought the Eels’ B-Sides & Rarities album, which apparently is now only available on iTunes. For $9.99….
Anyway, I hate how iTunes downloads everything in some bastardized format, m4p. But thanks to the power of the Internets I found a swell little tool that will go through your iTunes collection, find all the protected files you’ve purchased and convert them to mp3. I believe it even checks that you’ve purchased them, so it’s not like it’s a tool for piraters. Huzzah to the Internets!
Anyway, get hymn (I suggest you download JHymn because it has a GUI and is much simpler to use)
“Freedom from torture is an inalienable human right, and we are committed to building a world where human rights are respected and protected by the rule of law.” - George W. Bush
yes George. Tell us how freedom from torture is a right while you stand by and let this happen to the people we’re supposed to be “liberating”.
hearts & minds… hearts & minds…
Fuck you, Morgan County. Any state tax income from the Colts, the new stadium (from any usage at all, Colts or not) and the Convention Center should now NEVER be sent to Morgan County for any reason, because you think it’s just a Marion County benefit.
My cat Monkey has gotten these blackish spots mostly on his lips but also a little on his gums. They never looked BAD, just…wierd. But luckily I found out they are pretty much orange cat freckles and nothing really to worry about.