That’s a good thing, though as I recall, it wasn’t enough for Trent Lott.
More when I see an actual transcript of his lachrymose blatherings.
I will say, snarkily, that I assume that this apology is now (in the famous words of Ron Ziegler) inoperative?
[Update at 8 PM EDT]
OK, it’s a non-apology apology.
Here are the key words:
Jack Kilby has died. Without him (or at least without the work that he did–someone else surely would have if not him) there would be no desktop computers on which to type brief obituaries like this, or an Internet to communicate them.
Last summer solstice, a year ago today, I was in Mojave, California, watching SpaceShipOne go into space for the first time. Tariq Malik describes all of the activity since then that bodes well for private space passenger travel.
I’ve downloaded the ISO for disk 1 of Fedora Core 4 several times now. Each time, the file size is the same, but each time, I get a different sha1sum, and it never matches the one listed in the directory.
It is my sad duty to report the first death due to Post Election Selection Trauma:
He had strong political opinions and followed Amy Goodman’s radio broadcast “Democracy Now.” Alas the stolen election of 2000 and living with right-winged Americans finally brought him to his early demise. Stress from living in this unjust country brought about several heart attacks rendering him disabled.
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
Shockingly, it didn’t occur at ground zero for this affliction (my current residence of Boca Raton), but in Tucson. I’m sure that this is just the first death of many, in what is certain to be a sweeping slaughter and national tragedy, all part of Karl Rove’s plan.
Well, you know the old saying about no honor among thieves? It seems to apply to terrorists and Ba’athists as well. The native Iraqi “insurgents” don’t seem to be getting on that well with their foreign “allies”:
Marines patrolling this desert region near the Syrian border have for months been seeing a strange new trend in the already complex Iraqi insurgency. Insurgents, they say, have been fighting each other in towns along the Euphrates from Husayba, on the border, to Qaim, farther west. The observations offer a new clue in the hidden world of the insurgency and suggest that there may have been, as American commanders suggest, a split between Islamic militants and local rebels…
…Capt. Chris Ieva, a fast-talking 31-year-old from North Brunswick, N.J., said he could tell whether an area was controlled by foreign insurgents or locals by whether families had cellphones or guns, which foreign fighters do not allow local residents to have for fear they would spy on them. Marines cited other tactics as being commonly employed by foreigners. Sophisticated body armor, for example, is one sign, as well as land mines that are a cut above average, remote-controlled local mines, and well-chosen sniper positions.
In this story about Howard Dean attacking Mitt Romney (that’s got to be good news for Romney), the reporter writes “Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean accused Republican governors of towing the party line…”
A spell checker won’t catch that one. The word “towing” is spelled correctly. The problem is, it’s the wrong word.
A painting chimpanzee has outsold Andy Warhol.
Well, not you. Hopefully, few of my readers would be capable of doing that.
I mean, can a person, any person, rape a dog?
What I really mean is, is the word “rape” really applicable here? It just looks strange to me. Obviously, of course, it’s possible to forcibly penetrate a dog (well, not for me–I wouldn’t be able to get, or keep it up for such an act), but the word “rape” has connotations that don’t, or at least shouldn’t, apply. To me, the word rape means non-consensual penetration (of either gender), but can there be any other kind of penetration of an (non-human) animal? It seems like a category error to me.
How does a dog issue consent? I don’t have any personal experience, but I’m given to understand that this is not an uncommon activity on farms, and that the animals don’t always necessarily fight back or complain (and generally aren’t even injured), but that’s not the same thing as granting permission.
Now clearly, this was a brutal crime, but it seems to me that the crime is animal cruelty, not rape. The fact that the instrument of torture and injury was the young man’s male member doesn’t change that.
…to discover that women can fake org@sms. I found this part interesting:
When women genuinely achieved an org@sm, areas of the brain involved in fear and emotion were deactivated. Those areas stayed alert however when women were faking it.
The researchers also found that the cortex, which is linked with consciousness, is active during a fake org@sm but not during the real thing.
Sounds like fun research for all involved. You have to wonder, though, if some of the response is influenced by the experimenters. I’d think that it would be kind of hard for people to do what comes naturally when they know they’re being observed. Sort of a variation on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
[Update on Monday evening]
At the risk of alienating a large (perhaps, even likely, intelligent) portion of my readership, I nonetheless feel compelled to ask, is this why blondes have more fun?