Now that Obama has the nomination form the Left, he can pretty much as Right as he wants, as long as he’s not quite as far Right as McCain. I read this blog post yesterday, and I think it sums things up nicely. Also, I just read that Obama voted in favor of a wiretapping…

In my never ending battle against spam comments, I recently installed an Akismet-based plugin. It has done a wonderful job so far — only 1 spam comment out of hundreds has made it through. Interestingly, no legitimate comments have been posted since I installed the filter, which has me wondering if those are also getting…

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E-mail forwards aren’t usually my thing, and posting them on blog is certainly out of the question, but when a co-worker sent me this one, I just couldn’t resist. After all, it’s true, right? Dog Diary 8:00 am – Dog food! My favorite thing! 9:30 am – A car ride! My favorite thing! 9:40 am…

Seriously. The man is amazing. Listening to him inspires me to be a better and more politically active American.

More than one person pointed out today’s Stuff White People Like to me. It’s completely true.

Mike posted this meme challenge over on his blog and said everyone had to do it. I don’t normally go in for this sort of thing, but it’s similar to a meme I was planning on doing. It also reminds me of reading the fortunes from fortune cookies and adding “in bed” to the end,…

I just saw a banner ad for Microsoft’s antivirus product, One Care. The basic rundown is this: a bunch of viruses are hanging out and dividing, when all of a sudden, One Care farts on them (seriously, Microsoft, a green cloud?), thereby killing them. Yay-hooray, right? Well, there’s one tiny problem: the viruses they show…

I just wanted to point out that it’s National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week. Morah always says that, at the hospital, attention is paid to other groups of workers (such as nurses, doctors, and even volunteers) when they have their weeks, but when National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week rolls around, no one says anything. So be…

We’ve all seen those annoying little Flash-based banner ads that entreat you to play some game in the hopes of winning an iPod or something similar. They range from actually fun (I once saw a “Wild West” shooting gallery one) to fairly odd (“outrun the gorilla!”), but below is one of the most bizarre I’ve…