Archive for October, 2006



Ditch Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat is the most annoying, unreliable, mass-market programs since RealPlayer began its slide downhill. I hate it. Big time.
Want an alternative? Try Foxit Reader. It’s free. It’s small. It doesn’t take all day to start because it has God only knows how many plugins to load (none of which I’ve ever used, as far [...]

The other day, while walking through the student center, I came across this poster:

This is apparently a campaign to raise awareness and get out the youth vote. Generally speaking, I think this is a terrible idea – too many young people vote as is, and they have no business doing so (if MTV News is [...]

So Cindy Sheehan thinks she’s a finalist for the Nobel Prize, eh?
Normally I would pass this kind of thing off as yet another delusion of grandeur from one of the most pathetic public figures I have ever seen, but doing so would require an element of disbelief on my part of Shehan’s claim.
Why would her [...]

A Great Leap Forward?

Does Kim Jong Il not understand the egregious irony associated with the dictator of an Asian socialist state calling anything a “great leap forward“? Does he do this on purpose?

David Horowitz at ETSU!

Happiness is finding out that one of your favorite authors is comeing to speak at your university: An Evening With David Horowitz.
Now if we can just get the Hitch to stop by… maybe next semester.
Horowitz’s blog is here.

Americans for Wal-Mart

I love these guys: Americansforwalmart.org
I love Wal-Mart, too. How can you not appreciate a company that provides quality goods to middle and lower-class families at affordable prices? You’d think that a company like this would get much love from the left.






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