I just spent a half an hour surfing the intertubes looking for something interesting to write about. I didn’t find anything. Nothing even worth mocking, unless you want me to care about the police showing up at Erik Erikson’s house. Most of you are probably more concerned about what you’re having to eat or drink than with politics today, so why bother?
It’s a nice day today here in the Philly burbs. It’s a little muggy, but we have clear blue skies and a slight breeze. It’s perfect for a cookout. Now I just have to get motivated to go to the grocery store. Maybe if Finn would take his nap that might happen before it gets dark.
What’s on your grill?
unless you’re gonna tell me that they arrest Erikson, I could care less
was erikson beating his wife?
I believe he was choking her with her own intestines. I don’t know. Somebody said that.
Maybe it was just something I heard on Game of Thrones.
Maybe I’m nto paying attention, but I admit that the Erikson/SWAT thing shocked me, until I remembered that Michelle Malkin did something similar with UC Santa Cruz students.
Some of the baseball blogs I follow on Twitter are extremely conservatarian and so of course they’re all righteously offended. One even said something like “these people are vermin.” Another one pointed at a DKos diary by Jesse LaGreca and said “these people really don’t get us at all.”
Not sure why I spent five minutes reading their tweets but it really did seem like I was through the looking glass for a time. Then I went out to enjoy the SoCal sunshine and none of it mattered.
Keeps getting easier and easier to tune out either side of the political blogospheric melodrama. People really do need to find better hobbies.
As much as I like to bash it, I don’t want the New York Times to fail or see it bought out by Michael Bloomberg. But when they pay $410 million for About.com, it’s hard not to laugh at them. When Google finally got around to fixing their algorithm so About.com didn’t constantly bedevil internet searchers, the company became worthless on paper just as it had always been worthless to anyone guided there.
OT: but is anyone else having trouble with the AdChoices ad that’s at the end of the post auto-playing with sound and slowing down the loading time?
That happens to me now and then. It’s really jarring to be quietly reading along, having in fact passed below the ad, and suddenly BOOM there’s some obnoxious ad blaring — quick find it kill it now! And I can never find an “off” button for the sound; I have to hit the reload button for the whole page.
I hate that.
It’s why I surf with my mute button on at all times. If I want to listen to something, then I turn on my sound.
I get that sometimes and usually just turn off the sound.
I use Firefox and Ad Block Plus. I don’t have that at all.
A bit muggy and hot here in NJ. Supposed to be cooler Thursday.
that was a great idea thanks, no more issues
Happy Memorial Day to all!
It’s stinkin’ hot here; in the nineties for the past three days and the grass is crunchy, trees are withered, and it’s miserable to stay outdoors. We may skip the grilling and go out to a restaurant instead.
It’s too early for heat waves. It feels like July 4th weekend.
Beautiful day here in sunny S.D. Onion bread rising in the cupboard, steaks marinating in garlic, white corn waiting to be shucked, watermelon cold in the fridge. Gonna get the grill going in a coupla hours. I hope everyone is having a restful and enjoyable long weekend.
Mrs. ID just left with a friend, headed for one of the local eateries. I have her promise to return with grilled smoked sausage. Its way too hot to spend any more time outdoors here today. Hoping for a bit of rain tonight and tomorrow.
Nothing to write about on this Memorial Day?
How about the Romney military record, since he apparently wants to be another war president, the one who got Iran and increased the military budget to over 1 trillion? Or how about the Romney religious deferment so he could go to France and Mormonize the French and teach them about the joys of sexual abstinence. Or how about asking why none of his five adult sons have never volunteered to serve in Iraq or Afganistan?
Plenty of material. Just don’t mention Obama’s military history in turn.
A salute to those who defied a senseless act of vandalism, the smashing of a cross that had stood for 86 years before the war memorial in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and thronged to honor their dead on Canada’s Remembrance Day in 2009: