Archive for September, 2009

Just in time to make Halloween feel a little safer…

…John Evander Couey, a piece of human filth who raped a nine-​​​​year-​​​​old girl (prob­a­bly repeat­edly) in 2005, then buried her alive and left her to die and who was later given the cap­i­tal sen­tence for his vile deeds, did us all a favor by drop­ping dead yes­ter­day. He man­aged to show a lit­tle ini­tia­tive at last, and did it […]

How to mark a comment as NOT spam in WordPress

In case you ever need to do it your­self. It’s stu­pidly easy. Basically it involves chang­ing the word “approved” in the loca­tion bar to “spam”, select­ing the com­ment you want to unspam, and click­ing approve. You don’t need Akismet, and you don’t need to hack your database. Nice.

Ah, Islam, the religion of pieces

Part of Indonesia has joined the great enlight­en­ment by pass­ing a ston­ing law for adul­tery. Good! Because if there’s one thing that stu­pid men with small penises can’t pos­si­bly con­done, it’s their wives boink­ing other men. (Offhand I don’t know of any man who has ever been killed under any adul­tery law any­where.) It’s also now illegal […]

Café scrawlings

I know, I know. Beasts of Delphos. I know! I will get back there. Crossconversting some parts of the text to HTML proveth tricky. Besides, I spent most of this week down with what I strongly sus­pect was the flu, and not just any flu, but H1N1 itself. Why? Well, it hit me fast, and it hit me hard. Wasted […]

Changing the default browser in TweetDeck from Firefox to anything else (Ubuntu Linux)

Just a quickie. While you can change gen­eral sys­tem set­tings for your default browser sys­temwide in Linux (Ubuntu) by going to System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications, this does not affect how TweetDeck behaves when load­ing URLs. I’ve been using Epiphany because of my somewhat-​​​​laggy net­book, so hav­ing Firefox load when­ever I used TweetDeck was get­ting old. Searching the […]

Health care? Who needs it?

Arizona has its own health care sys­tem, AHCCCS, that is sup­posed to either take the place of or be sup­ple­men­tal to Medicare. I’m not actu­ally sure what the ratio­nale was for set­ting it up lo these many years ago, and it seems a lit­tle odd just from an economy-​​​​of-​​​​scale per­spec­tive. Medicare has to have more buying […]

H1N1 flu shots coming in October!

I assume those of you who oppose “social­ized med­i­cine”, “Obamacare” and gen­eral single-​​​​payer or pub­lic health won’t be get­ting vac­ci­nated. Since, after all, it’s gum­mint med­i­cine you’d be get­ting as opposed to some­thing cre­ated in the “Free Market” three years too late and at a cost-​​​​per-​​​​dose equal to a house pay­ment. Good. The sooner you ass­holes drop […]

Just to clarify on the Beatles’ Live and Let Die

The lyric is not …in this ever-​​​​changing world in which we live in… It is …in this ever-​​​​changing world in which we’re livin’… Got it? Good. Now, after forty years, you can rest easy. Let the topic be closed until this planet is scorched into ash by our own sun. On this ever chang­ing world on […]

Hello, California.

Just a YouTube mes­sage for you. I know you’re nearly as heav­ily armed as we are here in Arizona, so, you know. Kay? Kay. Buh bye now.