I was sitting in the restaurant bar at the top of the hotel in Stavanger watching the Norway/Italy football game one Saturday night. Guy walks in, glances at the screen, looks at me and mutters something in Norwegian. I take a stab, and say back “1-1”. He smiles, nods, and walks out. Some things are universal.

…that there haven’t been more Dan Rather puns on the porch. What a great opportunity. Missed. Speaking of Dan – how much blame is his? I figure he’s pretty much a prima dona who doesn’t do much research or fact-checking on his own any more, but is he still responsible? Should he get canned?

If you conisider this to be “Partisan Nut-Smashing”, I apologize. Hold your fire until Friday.

So I’m trying to post the PVP cartoon to rag on JRO, and I first link to the full size image using the “img” line. It runs off the edge of my secondary monitor (1024 × 768), so I put “height” and “width” arguments into the element. Now it’s pixelated. Hmmm.

Is there any way to make the post context sensitive so that it’s a compressed image on the main page and a full-size image on the post only page?

Jim Hightower points out abuse by a frivolous corporate lawsuit trying to oppress a LOO bar in La Vernia, TX.

You geeks may be curious about conspiracy theories that a Google branded browser may be in development.

While there is a huge bike race going on at this time (led by Lance’s former right had mountain man, Roberto Heras), the cycling talk has been slow.

But then news arises of an investigation of the Golden Boy’s performance being possibly too good.

On a lighter note, the next huge TdF cyclist (in my book anyways) has resigned with T-Mobile through 2006.

The DoJ heads to court today to fight a great evil. One that’s done $280 Billion or so of damage to our great republic. A scourge so great that fighting it has transcended party lines, with Attorney General Ashcroft seamlessly picking up the reins from Attorney General Reno.

Is it Al Quaeda? Or perhaps polluters? Maybe white slave traders, or the coyotes who spirit folks across our borders?

Nope, it’s a case against American farmers and manufacturers, a case against the crop which made the Gore fortune, and literally built many American states. Yep, this multi-billion dollar scourge is tobacco.

when I heard Macauly Culkin was arrested for weed was that he’s freakin’ 24 years old!

Oh, and it’s kind of interesting he’s hanging out in OKCity.

But 24 – jeeze.