Archive for March, 2006

Repulsive

Published by Ryan Sager March 31st, 2006 in Misc. Elephantitis. 1 Comment

My old boss Ramesh breaks it down so well I’m just going to post his whole post:

REPULSIVE REPUBLICANS [Ramesh Ponnuru]

1) Republicans are preparing to bring the Federal Marriage Amendment
to a vote. So I guess the plan from now on is to do this in all
even-numbered years, and then throw the idea aside in odd-numbered
ones? I know a lot of people support the FMA for principled reasons,
but a decisive number of Republicans are clearly just picking on gays
for political profit.

2) Republicans are leading a charge to subject "527 groups" to
onerous regulations. A minority of them, again, have sincere and
above-board reasons for doing this. Most of them just want to shut down
groups that are trying to beat them in elections. For a majority to
restrict the freedom of others to try to boot them out is pretty much a
textbook definition of the abuse of power, isn’t it?

Sounds about right to me. It almost sounds like a good topic for a book.

Radioactive Goat

Published by Ryan Sager March 30th, 2006 in Misc. Miscellany. 0 Comments

I didn’t read the story, but this is what I call a news graphic.

Food Stamp Hero

Published by Ryan Sager March 29th, 2006 in Misc. Education. 0 Comments

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So, this jerk off goes on the dole instead of sullying himself by shopping at Wal-Mart, and the New York state teachers union thinks the story warrants a glowing profile?

Just when you think the unions’ respect for the taxpayers couldn’t be any less…

Now we have to finance the consciences of hippy-dippy morons who refuse to work?

Un-be-liev-able.

(via Politicker)

UPDATE: I just realized, we’ve got the libertarian trifecta here: Wal-Mart, teachers unions and public assistance for people who are just being lazy.

Every Dog Has His Day

Published by Ryan Sager March 22nd, 2006 in Misc. Miscellany. 2 Comments

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Dancing

Finished the first draft of my book today, so I thought I’d post some pictures of dogs dancing.

Don’t want to slap on my flight suit and proclaim Mission Accomplished too soon, though. There’s still lots of editing to do. And then months more of fussing and promoting.

But major combat operations are over.

Book News

Published by Ryan Sager March 16th, 2006 in Misc. Self Promotion. 2 Comments

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The cover art’s in, and the book shows up on Amazon.

Just because I’m still writing the conclusion is no reason not to pre-order.

How is this a cereal?

Published by Ryan Sager March 12th, 2006 in Misc. Miscellany. 2 Comments

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As EGG said: Any parent who buys this should be reported to Child Protective Services.

Getting the Flue

Published by Ryan Sager March 12th, 2006 in Misc. Miscellany. 0 Comments

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So, yesterday, I’m sitting at my desk. Writing Chapter 7 of my book. I hear some rustling from the fireplace (yes, for some reason my apartment has a fireplace — I’ve never used it for fear of burning the building down and being responsible for at least six or seven deaths). It sounds like maybe someone’s cleaning something out upstairs. How should I know.

Suddenly, however, what should pop out of my fireplace but…

A FUCKING PIGEON

I’m sorry, but the profanity is necessary. It was like my own disease-infested, feather-covered, off-season Santa Claus.

It was a battle of wits, but I’m proud to say it only took me 15 minutes to prevail. The bird did a minimum of flapping around and managed to cause no damage — though, that’s mainly because I took lamps and picture frames and other delicate things off tables before it had a chance to crash into them.

I tried to get it to go out into the hallway — a bird in the hallway is not my problem, it’s a tragedy of the commons — but mainly it chose to bang into the one window I couldn’t manage to prop open.

Eventually, however, I managed to chase it to the correct window. After perching just inside of that window for about a full minute contemplating whether it really wanted to leave, it finally left me be.

Anyway, that’s 15 minutes of work on my book (20 if you count this blog post) that I’ll never get back. I’m just glad I was there when fate threw together my apartment and a pigeon. That would have sucked to come home to at 8 p.m.

The pictures above are the best I could manage with my Treo as I defended my property.

PSA: Remember to close your flue — even if you’ve never opened it.

Suddenly, They Don’t Know You…

Published by Ryan Sager March 11th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

John Podhoretz has this to say about former Bush administration bigwig / petty thief Claude Allen on The Corner:

CLAUDE ALLEN [John Podhoretz]
I wrote a book about the Bush White House. I know the names of many people who worked in the Bush White House. I’ve read every story there is to read about the Bush White House. I’ve been a political journalist for almost a quarter century, worked in a Republican administration, and gone to many right-wing parties. So let me say this about accused thief and former White House policy bigshot Claude Allen:

WHO?

I’ll take John’s word that he’s never heard of Allen. I hadn’t until recently, either (though I’m only a little more than a quarter-century old). But this guy was a big deal to social conservatives.

When I talked to Paul Weyrich recently for my book (it was sometime in mid-February), he was very distressed about Allen’s having left. He called him a very effective advocate for the religious right — and someone they would miss greatly.

Hey, weird things happen. I don’t consider the Claude Allen thing even a blip on the radar as far as the GOP’s problems. But he was important to certain segments of the party.

Doh!

Published by Ryan Sager March 8th, 2006 in Misc. Miscellany. 0 Comments

The Simpsons, live action.

God bless viral, short-form, Internet video!

(via Sullivan)

Parents today…

Published by Ryan Sager March 2nd, 2006 in Misc. Miscellany. 0 Comments

…need to learn to say no.

 

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