Okay, I’ve seen a fair amount of talk on the Internets about James Dobson’s disturbing checklist to tell if your child is becoming homosexual. However, Ed Cone finds something even more odd: Dobson’s June 2002 newsletter where he advocates fathers showering with their sons to affirm their masculinity. (Or, if I’m reading it correctly, give them a goal to aspire to.) :|
“Go away, little Apocalyptic Squirrel…Go away.” - Pearls Before Swine If Linus from Peanuts had his own pet, this would have been it.
I have been using Singapore for my photos, but I like the bandwidth deal on Flickr, so I’ve switched my photos over there. Perhaps the ease of uploading will encourage me to get the rest of my pictures up as well. :) Anyway, no knocks on Singapore. they have a very good program, and I encourage anyone who wants to host their own pictures to take a look at it. They’ve recently moved to a database-oriented system. ...
“Man, I don’t whistle past graveyards! I sit down, eat my lunch, insult a few birds, and take a nap!” - Bucky Katt from Get Fuzzy
UNC grads Jackie Manuel and Melvin Scott are working on their pro basketball dreams this summer. Jackie’s rehabbing his foot, and Melvin played for the Utah Jazz summer league team. Inside Carolina has a good article catching up with both of them.
Orange County Weekly does its best: So that’s right dude, meet me at the bleachers No principals, no student-teachers Both of us want to be the winner, but there can only be one So I’m gonna fight, gonna give it my all We learn that it was a “dude” who gossiped about Gwen. She challenges him to a fight at the bleachers. If he imagines it will be a fair, one-on-one fight, he is sadly mistaken. Gwen and her aforementioned “pack” will pounce on him like rabid wolves. ...
London was hit with four more bombs today, but the small explosions just appear to have been detonators. As a result, the the casualty figures so far include one person injured, with no deaths. Speculation is that this was a copycat bombing, run by a more group that didn’t know how to design the bombs. One of the bombs, and least, appears to have been a nail bomb, so it is likely they were intended to cause more death and destruction. ...
The San Francisco Police Department has an aspiring novelist writing its community police blotter. Good reading: He had not run for very long before he realized the two cops were only pacing him. They could see something he could not. With each frantic step a sense of dread nagged at him. The more calm and calculating they were, the further behind he left his common sense, and his panic ratcheted up. As he ran, the black and white radio car glided silently along behind like a predatory whale. ...
Bowler hats, multi-layered full skirts…must be Bolivian women’s professional wrestling! Courtesy of The New York Times (free registration required), via Gawker
The man who kept the Enterprise running passed away today. James Doohan’s Star Trek character was a great example for me of Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy may have been the center of most of the action, but Scotty stepped up and took command of the ship in the worst situations when they were away. It made it seem like the supporting characters weren’t just there for support. They were all highly competent, professional, and cool in a crisis, even if not as flashy as the Captain. It evoked a Starfleet system of selecting the best people, out of thousands of volunteers, based purely on merit and team cohesion. (Of course, that doesn’t explain why so many of the people they met from the Federation and Starfleet were venal, cruel, and incompetent.) ...