Wait, isn’t he a Republican? :) I’m really wondering what the Republican Party thinks of “supportive” organizations like Move America Forward attacking their own Senators. Or perhaps this is the way the Republican Party is working now? After all, Swift Boat Veterans have to be kept occupied somehow…
Comic book covers tend to be designed to get people to pick them up and buy them on impulse. If you think of your primary audience as being familiar with the characters, for instance, having an apparently dead hero on the cover is usually a good selling point. If, on the other hand, you’re just trying to convey “Action and Adventure Await,” I don’t think you can do much better than these covers from 1939-1942 Fox Comics. :) ...
One would think that weather forecasting is a common good that would most easily be coordinated through the federal government, but apparently Sen. Rick Santorum doesn’t think so. He has introduced a bill designed to make sure the National Weather Service can’t publicly share information that would be in competition with private companies such as AccuWeather and The Weather Channel. While I can’t help but admit the fact that Senator Santorum is at least philosophically consistent on this bill, I would still have to disagree with the bill itself. If the NWS hasn’t stopped anyone from starting a private weather forecasting company, then why would we restrict the information from the people who paid for it: You and me. (Well, ignoring the fact that our lower taxes and increased expenditures have led to a budget deficit, which means that quite a bit of our government’s funding is coming from China buying Treasury bonds.) ...
Daring Fireball translates a recent Q&A about Adobe acquiring Macromedia: “Once Freehand, Fireworks, and GoLive are killed, customers will have the benefit of not having any competing apps to choose from, and we benefit from not having any competitors.” Link courtesy of ongoing
He does research? On the Internet?!? Why doesn’t he just pay his wife and daughter to do it? :) Seriously, how long will DeLay be in the House? If I had his track record, I’d be afraid of offending the judiciary.
Earl “The Pearl” Monroe and Coach “Big House” Gaines. Photo courtesy of the WSSU Archives and NARA Clarence “Big House” Gaines, who spent 47 seasons coaching men’s basketball at Winston-Salem State University, passed away yesterday. He was 81. When he retired, he had won more men’s basketball games than anyone except Adolph Rupp. A few coaches passed him since then, including Dean Smith, but he was at WSSU long enough for 828 wins and entrance to the Hall of Fame. ...
Dave’s Long Box reviews one of the more accomplished villains in the DC Universe: Kobra. He sounds a lot like Cobra Commander from GI Joe, but competent. (He beats up Batman.) Of course, you couldn’t get much less competent than Cobra Commander; his enemies weren’t exactly rocket scientists, yet they beat Cobra all the time. (Actually, now I’m wondering. Did GI Joe have a rocket scientist? And if they did, would he have been called Booster?) :) ...
They revived the character of Slam Bradley in Detective Comics? Why?!?
One of my favorite NFL players, Mills played as an undersized linebacker for the New Orleans Saints and the original Carolina Panthers team. He then went on to coach for the Panthers, continuing through his illness and treatment. A high-effort player, as I recall he usually had a smile on his face to let everyone know it was just a game, but a game he loved to play. He passed away today at the age of 45 from cancer. ...
Apparently the Ohio government has invested some of its funds in rare coins. The Toledo Blade has the story. Since 1998, Ohio has invested millions of dollars in the unregulated world of rare coins, buying nickels, dimes, and pennies. Controlling the money for the state? Prominent local Republican and coin dealer Tom Noe, whose firm made more than $1 million off the deal last year alone. Link courtesy of EdCone.com