Plumbnation

UPDATE – That little leak I mentioned at the end of this post?  Well, I worked on it tonight and managed to split the copper pipe right open.  Looks like this saga will continue…
Original post follows:
My last entry on home improvement left off with the kitchen sink project.
Time to finish this sorry tale.
A few months [...]

American is Un-American

RETRACTION – See comments for this post. Updated 5/24/06
FURTHER UPDATE – It seems others have the same thought I did about the reliability of the Detroit Free Press.
No, it isn’t California, and the Ninth Circuit has nothing to do with it.
In perhaps a well-intentioned, but pernicious example of political correctness, the Michigan Department of [...]

Katrina Revisited

Via Instapundit.
Jonah Goldberg from The National Review.
All of those stories about, in Paula Zahn’s words, “bands of rapists, going block to block”? Not true. The tales of snipers firing on medevac helicopters? Bogus. The yarns, peddled on Oprah by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and the New Orleans police chief, that “little babies” were getting [...]

Irony Defined

This must be a joke.
The American Civil Liberties Union is weighing new standards that would discourage its board members from publicly criticizing the organization’s policies and internal administration.
“Where an individual director disagrees with a board position on matters of civil liberties policy, the director should refrain from publicly highlighting the fact of such disagreement,” the [...]

Googling Dhimmis

Google News is free to make their own decisions about what site to carry and what sites to dump. They aren’t a public utility, so more power to them.
But their decision to drop some sites critical of Islam due to ‘hate content’ raises some questions about where Google stands. Go Google ‘Jew’ and [...]

links for 2006-05-24

2007 Microsoft Office system preview site
MSFT released the public beta of Office 2007 today. Up for adventure? Go download it and give it a spin.
(tags: microsoft office beta)

How to Become an Early Riser
Yawn…
(tags: lifehacks sleep productivity)