Ann (The Man) Coulter

Oh boy,

So Ann Coulter is on the cover of Time magazine this week. This is a woman (well, maybe a woman) who has "joked" about killing anyone who calls themselves a liberal, thought that Timithy McVeigh should have blown up the New York Times building instead of the one in Oklahoma.

I hate that Time has determined that a woman who lies on every page of her books deserved the cover and a non-critical article. I went and cancelled my subscription to Time to morning.

Of course, in perfect "help, I'm being oppressed" fashion, Coulter and other conservatives are complaining that the cover picture makes her look strange. That one is too easy but you notice how liberals complain about the content and she's complaining about the image.

Steve's Outrage of the Day: The Return

Stories like this one just really make me mad. We have the Republican being held by the balls by some "Old Testament Christians" (oxymoron much?) who think that killing judges who rule against them is good public policy. We have Republican "leaders" in Congress who must try and do what the far right wingers what so that they can run for President in 2008.

The Republicans are basically the party of "No Control Over Your Body or Lives."

Want to have an abortion for whatever reason (danger to you or wish to start a family later)? No, that's murder!

Want to prevent a pregency using birth control? No, that's murder too!

Want to have a living will to determine what extremes should be taken to prolong or end your life? No, you should live as vegetable until we feel it is unwise politically.

Want to preserve the environment so that you can teach your kids to hunt? No, but keep those guns out there for us to use as a wedge issue.

Want to get married? Fine, but not if you're one of those "icky gay people who chose to be immoral."

Want to declare bankrupcy due to medical expenses occurred by a loved one? No, you will never get out from under the debt that you have occurred.

Basically, the Republicans have become the party of the fetus right up until birth, then you're on your own; the party of the corporations; and the party of religious Freaks that only recall one versus of the Old Testament and none of the New Tesatment. Oh yea, and blowing up brown-skinned people in other countries.

The current Republican Party is a horrible joke but I'm not laughing.

Yesterday...

At work, we discovered that one of my co-workers made a mistake that cost most of us the day of meaningful work. Wednesday night, one of my co-workers was setting up an environment for us to test a new version of the code on for the next day.

At least, he thought he was in one of our test environments. In reality, he was in our production environment (the "live" environment where our customers work) and he deleted about 8000 of our customers. Not good.

So the day was spent by him, me, and our boss tracking down what happened, what our options were to fix it, and how quickly those options could be tried. In end, we got it back up and working but we lost about 60 user ids from the last time a backup was ran.

On the plus side, they are now backing up that data on a nightky basis to prevent that probleming from occurring again.

12 Clones tested, taste the same...

... They also taste like chicken :-)

So I'm reading this story about how safe cloned milk and meat are. I notice that they only studied 2 beef clones and 10 dairy clones. Is a dozen clones enough to warrant a headline like "Cloned Meat, Milk Nearly the Same"?

Also, do they mean that the meat and milk taste the same as each other or do they mean the same as the source?

I really don't have a problem with cloned animals as meat or other food products. I just don't think that twelve subjects is enough to use in such a study.

Anyone else?

... Fixed some typos.

It's getting scary out there

Here's a story on another conservative Republican thinking that killing the judges is a good idea. The group also specifically targets Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy 'cause he is the deciding vote in many cases.

This is after last week where Tom Delay claimed that "the time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior." Which seems like a threat to me but he could just mean at Judgment Day. Also last week, Senator Republican John Cornyn of Texas said that he understood how judges decisions could lead to people reacting with violence.

When exactly did it become just accepted that Senators and Representatives could threaten other members of the government with death and the media barely even mentions it?

Roger Ebert's Glossary of Movie terms

Roger Ebert's Glossary of Movie terms is a great little list of fun movie definitions.

Now when I yell out "Fruit Cart!", I will not get as many strange looks. (Really, who am I kidding. Of course, I will!)

Steve's Movie Review: Frank Miller's Sin City

I just saw Frank Miller's Sin City this afternoon. It is a good movie but not one with any happy endings for our heros. Of course, that's to be expected in a film noir.

On the other hand, Brittany Murphy looks good in her underware, Jessica Alba looks incredible in ass-less chaps, and Carla Gugino looks great topless.

The one that surprised me was Alexis Bledel as a hooker. She's on "Gilmore Girls" as Rory and in this, she is nothing like Rory at all. She did very good.