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Dana Summers at the Orlando Sentinel - 12/14/2000: cartoon commentary on GW's job ahead.
Customized Imaginations - Give it up Al! a creative take-off on the Gore-Lieberman campaign sign. Hehe. [kaba]
KeepAndBearArms.com - Al Gore's Military Ballot Box: hehe. [kaba]
From KeepAndBearArms.com:
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H. L. Mencken
Helen Highwater at alt.journalism via deja.com - I give it three thumbs up: The Unknown News opinion of the end of the perpetual election. [unknown]
The next four years should be tremendously entertaining, but Bush will need to snort a lot of coke to match the fun factor of the past five weeks. Rarely have we seen the blatant lies of both major parties and the shared shit of electoral politics more thoroughly exposed, day after day. Yes indeed, it's been a marvelous show, and now, as Tweedle yields to Dumb, we owe all the players a round of applause. Thank you, asses and elephants, for the finest political comedy since "Duck Soup," and, of course, the baldest show of maximum high-level corruption since Ford pardoned Nixon.
J.D. Tuccille at CivilLiberty.About.Com - Pot case puts prosecutors on trial: Good commentary on the court case of Steve and Michele Kubby. Hopefully, the jury will see the light and acquit them. The government should wish for this as well. Making martyrs is not good politics. All this noise for the so-called "crime" of possessing a vegetable. [market]
This week sees the close of one of the drug warriors' high-profile attempts to crucify connoisseurs of forbidden dried leaves. As has historically been the case with crucifixions, the forces of officialdom stand to create martyrs, at best, and to themselves be fitted out for the public relations equivalent of nails and crossbeams, at worst.
Sierra Times - Darwin Awards 2000: Some of these seem older than a year to me, and I'm sure at least a few are made up, but they're still good. [sierra]
There's a new article in The Libertarian series by Vin Suprynowicz:
- The milkers and the milked - Vin reminds us of why it is important that noone "serves" simultaneously in more than one of the three branches of government. We want our legislators to be amongst the milked, not one of the milkers. That way they might have at least a small reason to keep our taxes low.
Charley Reese at the Orlando Sentinel - Roosevelt talks tough on Scouts: Advice given in 1911 by Teddy Roosevelt to the Boy Scouts. Good words. The Orlando Sentinel's web site has gotten a makeover since the last time I visited. Looks good. Mr. Reese once again has his own page. links updated.
It's hard to imagine a modern president giving the same advice that Teddy Roosevelt offered. Most recent presidents have more or less fractured the Ten Commandments, and, of course, Bill Clinton has not treated his wife nor any other woman well. And nowadays there are people attacking the Boy Scouts rather than encouraging them, because they refuse to compromise on religion and morality. Such is the ruined state of the nation today.
"Hasciicam makes it possible to have live ascii video on the web. It captures video from a tv card and renders it into ascii, formatting the output into an html page with a refresh tag or in a live ascii window or in a simple text file as well, giving the possiblity to anybody that has a bttv card, a linux box and a cheap modem line to show a live asciivideo feed that can be browsable without any need for plugin, java etc." A cool hack. I haven't tried it, not having the necessary hardware, but I appreciate the idea. Includes some static screenshots. [meat]
