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Time:

7:14 pm.

Massive Car-Boner: Engage!

Audi debuts R8 with 5.7 liter V10.

Subject:	Oh hell.
Time:	10:54 am.

I hate you California. I hate you so goddamn much.

I hate people who bitch about "activist judges." It's a load of crap. The people, through their representatives, make the law. The law is interpreted by the judiciary and enforced by the executive. If you don't like the way the judiciary interprets the law, then change the law to clarify it so the judiciary knows how to interpret it. It's that simple.

Now here's the problem; people are clamoring for the Calfornia judiciary to overturn Proposition 8. They can't. They just can't, and if they try they should be shot. Because that honestly would be judicial activism. You can't tell people that an amendment to the state constitution is unconstitutional, because by definition it isn't. It's superconstitutional, it's outside their purview, it's none of their business.

I want gay people to have all the same rights that I do, including the right to marry. I believe that marriage is a legal state that need not be fundamentally tied to religion, and that the religious types should just shut up, follow whatever rules their particular sect has agreed on, and let everyone else do the same. I really honestly do.

But I also believe, with absolute rock-solid certainty, that gay people in California need to shut up and accept that they can't get married for now. I'm sorry, but they just have to live with it. Until we can all do some outreach and convince their fellow Californians that they aren't any different from the rest of us, they're just going to have to deal.

It is important to make sure their rights are recognized. It is vital that we do so in a way that respects and keeps whole the mechanisms by which we govern ourselves.

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Subject:	When I come to power, today will be a national holiday.
Time:	10:16 am.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/25/ann-coulters-jaw-wired-sh_n_146248.html

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Time:

10:05 pm.

These guys win.

They win here too.

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Time:

1:35 am.

political_macro

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Subject:	IT'S HERE!
Time:	11:44 am.

I survived on a blend of this stuff and Pocari Sweat while we were in Japan. Lemon-flavored sports drinks are easy, but it's goddamn impoossible to find unsweetened bottled green tea here. Thankfully, they ship to addresses in the US!

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Time:

10:07 pm.

Anyone else get the powerful urge to get very, very drunk halfway through this debate?

The liquor, it makes the head-hurting go away.

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Subject:	Take that!
Time:	12:13 pm.

cobie has announced that he's not going to do the "take a picture of yourself right now" meme, because he doesn't do memes. Well we'll just see about that.

For five minutes let us all suspend disbelief and assume that right now he is in a barn, somewhere in New Hampshire, doing an impression of Oddjob:

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Subject:	Dear Female Voters: Your Interests Are Not Served By Voting For Palin
Time:	3:09 pm.
Mood:	irate.

There are a few women who work in my organization. Some of them are more or less political than others. Some I can have a reasoned debate with. "I'm not sure that Obama can live up to all the promises he's making in his campaign." Others, I cannot. "Homosexuals have no rights. If my son came out and said that he was gay I would beat the crap out of him and disown him." (actual quote)

The argument I'm running into nowadays is that regardless of her policies and positions, electing Sarah Palin to the vice presidency would be a good thing for women because it would be one step closer to breaking the ultimate glass ceiling. These are the same women who voted for Hillary, for the same reason. Not positions, not policies, not history. Genitals.

To those voters I present as simple and straightforward an argument as I can: Sarah Palin is a sock puppet. She was chosen because the McCain campaign needed a pro-life female, and that's it. The unprecedented lockdown on who she talks to and what she says is ample evidence that who she is and what she believes are of little consequence to the campaign. She is a mouth that will dutifully parrot their lines and has the appropriate reproductive bits attached.

Let me draw a comparison for you: Let's say Pat Buchanan is running for president. At the eleventh hour he realizes "Oh crap, I need a vice president." His advisors tell him that he can't have a white dude, because that would just confirm what everyone knows; he is, as Cornell West once put it, a racial arsonist. So he goes out and finds some black republican that he barely knows, maybe Michael Steele, and offers him the spot, so long as he's willing to march to Buchanan's drum. And we end up with a black vice presidential candidate parroting Buchanan's famous line about "First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans."

Michael Steele becomes a tool. Just like Sarah Palin is a tool. If that's that's the only way for a woman to get into the white house, making herself useful to a man, then exactly what fucking glass ceiling do you think you're breaking?

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Subject:	Old Lady wins: Airbagality
Time:	4:08 pm.

http://failblog.org/2008/08/13/honking-fail/

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Subject:	In response to an argument with an internet acquaintance of mine...
Time:	1:44 am.
Mood:	irritated.

Dick Dale is playing backwards upside-down middle eastern folk music. I promise.

Misirlou is a Greek folk song that is old as dirt.

Dick Dale's uncle was an oud player.

Here is a dude playing Misirlou on an oud.

So yes. Surf Rock as we know it essentially came from the middle east.

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Subject:	I love this story.
Time:	6:55 pm.
Mood:	tired.

Crazy SF Net Admin

I can easily see this guy passing into geek folklore, like our own Paul Bunyan or John Henry.

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Subject:	Bahahahahaha
Time:	12:13 am.
Mood:	amused.

C.C. Sabathia, Prince Fielder Keep Imagining Each Other As Giant Talking Hot Dog, Hamburger

N.B. Being a fat dude myself, I am totally allowed to make fun of fat baseball players.

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Subject:	Thank You Way's Link Of The Day!
Time:	5:22 pm.
Mood:	amused.

Nadshot: A blog about getting kicked in the dick.

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Subject:	Dear Internet Assholes:
Time:	3:14 pm.
Mood:	angry.

In response to the inevitable, and in some places already beginning, flood of "[insert touch interface innovation here] is just copying the iphone! Apple already invented all of this, stuff, these guys are just posers!" let me just say for the record that you are very, very, very wrong.

Edit: To clarify, this video was filmed in February of 2006, over a year before the iPhone's June 2007 debut.

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Subject:	Eat it comp mexico!
Time:	8:21 pm.

Bahahaha

Thu 06/19/2008 15:18 06192008015

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Subject:	Bigass solar collector
Time:	5:16 pm.

With 340 days of sunlight, this thing provides 70% of the power for the facility i'm working at this week.

Sat 06/07/2008 11:12 06072008006

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Subject:	Odd
Time:	11:51 pm.

Anyone recognize this featureless dirigible hovering over sierra vista?

Fri 06/06/2008 15:47 06062008004

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Subject:	Arg!
Time:	10:33 pm.

Two tone ska michael marino can't take the noise!

Sun 06/01/2008 00:27 06012008002

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Subject:	That's better.
Time:	4:01 pm.

Ahhh

Sat 05/10/2008 16:00 05102008022

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