At first I thought this would be inappropriate, but then I decided we should all take the time to read our bibles more. (Credit goes to NY expatriot Ashley Mc for this link which sells related paraphenelia.)

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. Ezekiel 23:20 (NIV)

It seems rather innocuous at first that whitehouse.gov is using this list to instruct the Google robots to ignore certain parts of the Whitehouse’s website, but digging into the file it becomes readily apparent that Google will miss just about everything of substance. The really significant (and obvious to tech-heads) impact is that the Google cache will not keep up with any website removals or rewrites after The Man decides to change history.

j/r – how’s this one fit you? An article at Common Dreams ‘s News Center — “Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community”.

Today’s so-called Republicans have established a mind-numbing record at polluting the environment; bloating government; appointing crony partisans; pushing the nation into debt to fund tax cuts for the rich; legislatively catering to the world’s largest corporations; opposing women’s rights; kneecapping states, local communities, and schools; eviscerating constitutional protections of liberty at home; and devastating our nation’s reputation abroad.

They try to re-write history – the biography of Thomas Jefferson on the www.whitehouse.gov website has been re-written to turn him into a man who had “assumed leadership of the Republicans,” while the reality was that Jefferson’s party was the Democratic-Republicans and still exists today, called the Democratic Party. (The Republican Party is much more recent, having come into national existence in 1856.)

Corporate shills like former Enron lobbyist and current GOP chairman Ed Gillespie would have us think the Republican party was born in service to corporations. But Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, was also the first president to actively use the power of government in support of striking workers.

The guy’s as much of an extremist nut as any radio personality, but behind his rhetoric is a few interesting notes.

I know this is not right. This weird-ass British game, Conkers, is about schoolboys hitting each other’s horse chestnuts trying to break them apart. In an effort to revive this crappy lost game some guy has recreated it in Flash.

It’s a couple-minute time waster if only to marvel at this example of “not quite getting it”.

I found myself in an unusual position this past Saturday morning: home alone with no obligation to go to work. The wife was in Ann Arbor for a class reunion and my biggest deal at work had just imploded, so I basically had nothing to do. After giving it some thought, I decided that I would head into downtown LA and check out the new Disney Concert Hall. I even thought about taking a train into downtown (there is a train station about a mile from my house), just so I could finally say that I had experienced LA’s mass transit system.

Then I remembered that I live in Southern California and that nothing could ever be so simple.

Walters and I were just talking about this last night, so it caught my eye.

Being a health-nut, I’d love to see restaurants posting the calorie/fat counts in what they serve. And it seems fair to require nicer restaurants to post it somewhere if McDonald’s has to. But I don’t think this will help with the obesity problem everyone’s so lathered up about these days.

Apparently I completely missed the news article that Osama Bin Laden and Sadam Hussein were married about a month ago. Thankfully, I didn’t miss the follow-up article where they adopted a shaved chimp to complete their family unit.

If it weren’t for the Weekly World News how would we ever know the truth?

I tried to go to this site at work and was greeted by the following message:

This site http://supersphere.com/FrontPage/Politic/Page.html?ID=Audio has been categorized as Mature according to [ my employer ]‘s Code of conduct for Internet usage.

I’m not sure why [ my employer ] feels the need to censor a website featuring speeches from the likes of Jello Biafra, Noam Chomski and Malcom X covering all kinds of topics like WTO, Mumia Abu-Jamal, etc. but it does seem odd.

I’m only posting this one because they educated me with an Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. quote that I was unfamilar with. For that I am grateful so I’ll give them a little free plug.

Here’s the original quote:

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

and here’s their version:

The right to recline my seat ends where the other man’s knee begins. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

This site analyzes text and webpages and determines how evil they are based on Gematriculation (kind of like numerology, except it’s about words and the bible.)