Hey conservative media consumers--you are being misled!

Conor with an open letter.

Translate any web page into the Web page time machine!

Miss the dancing gifs of those of DIY Geocities pages? Sure you do--nothing like crazy off-the-shelf backgrounds and random gifs to slow down your old 1996 Netscape browser!

Plug in any web address and take a trip back, via the Geosizer!

A Teabagger Analysis of the new $100 bill

Funny stuff, here.

The Daily What

The Daily What

Tiny horse--cute warning.

TV House Plans

Funny, I was thinking about something like this a few days ago. And come to find out someone has already done it--and done it well.

AZ wants federal money to pay for training for cops to administer its new state law

Kind of puts the quiet into the question of "Why should you care if you are not from Arizona?"

Wal-Mart facing troubles?

Wal-Mart facing huge pay discrimination suit.

While the article points out that the court ruling was a "sharply divided" one (6-5), I take away from this:

-Wal-mart has lost on this issue three times already

-Their defense seems to rest on the fact that the problem is too big for them to defend.

It also seems to me, that if the 6 defendants are not representative enough to enjoy (or, in this case, initiate) class-action status, then that will make it that much harder for them to prove their point that Wal-mart has a pervasive and discriminatory policy with regard to the treatment of its female employees.

But there you go.

Can't let a thing like a law get in the way of raising funds...

RNC on anti-deceptive mailer law: "It doesn't apply to us."

The importance of continuing unemployment benefits

or, why Mitch McConnell is an ass.

Despite the always-there problem of dole dependency, the weak job numbers and chronic unemployment make this an easy call.

Apple squeezing developers--latest victim: Adobe

Adobe gives up on Flash for IPhone

The Accidental Sex Offender

This piece by Wendy Kaminer deserves much more than a passing mention in my blog. And I've thought about it quite a bit and cannot disagree with a word she says. My response, then: Ditto.

Yup, that's right

Via Andrew Sullivan:

Cincinnati pitcher "suspended" 50 games

50 game ban, BUT they let him serve it while he is rehabbing.

WTF! A SP pitcher only only has to sit out about 20% of the games anyway. What is the point of such a toothless penalty? This is like a school suspension that counts weekend days.

Of course they are, John

John McCain: "Illegal immigrants are intentionally causing accidents on the freeways."

[Insert snarky response here]

How the Right has re-defined "judicial restraint" to mean "judicial activism against law we don't like."

A great piece on how the Right has re-defined "judicial restraint" to mean "judicial activism against law we don't like."

[D]uring the Warren era, activism usually meant asking the Supreme Court to bring a few state outliers into line with a national consensus—on racial discrimination, for example. By contrast, Roberts Court-era conservatives are urging unelected judges to strike down landmark federal laws that passed over their objections, at least some of which command broad national support.

SCOTUS opening

The GOP has already come out against whoever it is that Obama will nominate to replace Stevens on the bench.

The White House response has been that the solid GOP opposition frees him to pick whoever he wants, without bothering to even talk with them.

Probably not the response they were hoping for...

Dead and dying languages...

A linguist friend of mine muses about being a terminal speaker.

Reminds me of the listverse post, 12 Last Known Speakers of a Language.

"Lost" IPhone or devious plant?

IPhone prototype found in California bar.

Obama and the drive for common ground

I just ran across this excellent post about Obama vis-a-vis "placation." Worth a full read.

Typo of the year

"Freshly ground black people..."