Archive for June, 2006
Duke AD injured in boat accident due to son’s DUI
Haven’t seen this in the MSM yet. It’s one thing for the son of the athletic director to be charged with operating a boat while impaired. It’s another thing that he was a former Duke athlete. What angers me is that the father, the athletic director [Read More]
Bumper stickers
Anyone know of any good bumper stickers that make an intelligent progressive point without being too offensive? A lot of people at work know which car is mine, so I don’t want to ruffle anyone’s feathers (too much). I got rid of the “F The President” [Read More]
Whoring for Fresh Step on my blog
Back on May 12, I wrote about my disgust with Arm & Hammer Multicat litter. Today, I received this email: Hi Toastie, My name is Maureen . I came across your blog and read an entry regarding your disgust with Arm & Hammer Multicat cat litter. I thought you might [Read More]
Flag-burning amendment
The Senate rejected the proposed constitutional amendment on desecrating the American flag by one vote 14 Democrats voted for it. I’m at a loss for words… Burning a flag impinges on whose rights exactly? It offends people who fought for this country or people [Read More]
And some more on Duke lacrosse
In-depth article from SI Regardless of whether a rape was committed, the images of many people who did not commit a rape and the image of Duke and of Duke athletics have been greatly tarnished. It sucks to be Mike Pressler. I sucks to be a lacrosse player who [Read More]
Six years ago, I actually liked Joe Lieberman
Now I hope he gets retired by Ned Lamont. And this new campaign aid from Lieberman’s camp is one of the most ridiculous political ads I’ve ever seen. Even if you have zero interest in this Connecticut senate race, the ad will awe you. [Read More]
Pentagon: Homosexuality a disorder
Do we live in the 21st century? Does science mean anything to our government? Are people so insecure about their heterosexuality? WTF? (Rhetorical questions) [Read More]
Happy World Refugee Day
I’m reading about the advancements that society around the globe has seen over the last fifteen years, the “flattening” of the globe, as Thomas Friedman calls it. And yet no computers, no networks, no blogs can stop some of the horrors that are going on in [Read More]
Cat in a crockpot
I promise not to do this too often. I have a feed on my netvibes page of Flickr cat pics. Much cleaner on the screen, far less cluttered than the LJ kittypix group. I just saw a picture of a cat in a crockpot, and it’s just so so cute. [Read More]
Web Connections
It’s been evident that in the past few weeks, I’ve been going crazy with my web-surfing, finding all sorts of new sites. I thought I had reached the point, for a couple of years actually, where I had seen the whole internet, or at least all that might possibly [Read More]
