We’re taking a trip to where there is no Internet access. This does not sound line fun to me, but the Elf assures me that it will be.
I am taking two computers with me anyway.
If things are quiet around here, you know why. Pictures when we return.
*Update, July 31:* There’s free wireless Internet access [...]

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The Muppet Show Season Two is apparently slated for release next spring… which is a really long wait, as far as I’m concerned. But for now you can “vote on the cover art”:http://muppets.go.com/main.html at the official Muppets web site.
As of this writing there were only _seventeen_ votes. Seventeen votes, people! That’s pathetic. But it means [...]

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The ACLU has taken on yet another free-speech case where principle matters more than content; they are
suing the government on behalf of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church.
Phelps is a sorry, miserable, disgusting excuse for a human being. He’s celebrated the 9/11 attacks as God’s judgement on a nation that tolerates homosexuality and [...]

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So, “the article I linked to yesterday”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2006/07/23/unwilling-to-listen/ about the Iraq war appears to be an excerpt from the upcoming book “_FIASCO_”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/159420103X/celticknotwor-20 by Washington Post reporter Thomas Ricks. Thomas Ricks did an “online chat”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/07/07/DI2006070701061.html where he discussed his book and his articles. As you can probably guess, a few nutjobs crawled out of the woodwork to [...]

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The Washington Post headline reads: “In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/22/AR2006072201004.html. But it doesn’t sound like the military forgot. The military has institutional memory. The civilian leadership, on the other hand…
bq. [R]etired Marine Col. Gary Anderson, an expert in small wars, was sent to Baghdad by the Pentagon to advise on how to better [...]

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