Common Sense

I was six paragraphs in to a great post on how I don’t have an iPod and how I think it is foolish to even bother asking candidates what is on their playlists, inspired by this article in Slate. Then I clicked on a link to Pandora to try and define what kind of music […]

The reading of the Enron trial verdict is scheduled for noon Eastern time; just 20 minutes from now.

Of all the things to discuss on The Today Show, porn addiction tops the list. Dr. Gail Saltz offers advice to a poor woman whose boyfriend is addicted to porn:
Dear Gail: My boyfriend and I have been dating for a rocky two years, and things were finally starting to mellow out. But now we have […]

The chief executive of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, said Monday that the Symantec lawsuit would not delay the January roll-out of the new OS Windows Vista.
On Wednesday, he was not so sure.
Windows Vista has been plagued by problems, constantly pushing back the release date. It was originally scheduled to be released this summer, but now Microsoft […]

Another endorsement for Glen Maxey:
Latinos For Texas Endorses Rep. Glen Maxey
for Tx Democratic Party State Chair
http://www.maxeyforchair.com
LFT’s Austin May meetup was a well-attended rousing success with all three candidates for state party chair in attendance and openly and enthusiastically answering questions from LFT members. It really is gratifying to see regular folks engaging in politics, and […]

And now there looks like there might be. Congress has just passed a bill that would bar demonstrators from attending military funerals. President Bush is expected to sign it into law.
A similar law was enacted here in Texas where it looked like it may be enforced for the first time earlier this week.
Rumors of a […]

That House Democrats and Republicans could unite over, it is the FBI search of a Congressman’s office. Actually it is the search of a congressman’s office after he was caught on film accepting a $100,000 bribe and the money was later found wrapped in foil in his freezer. And the agents got a search warrant […]

I only got around to one conspiracy theory on Conspiracy Theory Day. That won’t do. We at least have to get into the Netflix conspiracy.

It’s very, very hot outside. According to Yahoo it 93 degrees outside. I would say ‘Hello Summer,’ but we totally skipped Winter and Spring and went from Summer to Summer again.
While buying a gallon of Bush’s Sweet Tea (I swear they sweeten that stuff with crack because I can’t stop drinking it) to help beat […]

According to StatCounter, I had a visitor to the site from Karachi, Pakistan this morning.
This visitor was not interested in the Osama bin Laden post. No, this person read the Paris Hilton post from last night. Oh. My. God. I can’t help but think it would be really funny if this was, in fact, an […]