Who Were the Sea Peoples?

gives us some adult commentary on the political scene: "The Obammunist’s socialized health care legislation..." Oooh! "The Obammunist"! The only possible comeback would be something like "The DiLofascist." I think I will offer my services to Obama. "Wicked Witch Pelosi (D-Botox)..." Whoa! Tom ups the ante. But Tom, you forgot to mention Poopy-Pants Boxer (D-DooDooLand) or Skunk Breath Sanders (D-Uranus). "It’s more like Ted Kennedy’s 1965 immigration law that drastically reduced the number of Europeans who could immigrate to the U.S., more than half of which voted Republican, while vastly expanding Third World immigration quotas, almost all of whom vote Democrat." Who even knew quotas were allowed to vote?

care about public opinion .

You know how Apple would advertise with the young hipster representing Macintosh and the nerdy guy representing Windows PCs? Well, Microsoft has escalated: during the NCAA tournament, Microsoft is running ads with a black man representing Windows. Word is out that Apple is furiously seeking a lesbian, Rastafarian poet with whom to strike back.

I have an iPhone. At my house in Pennsylvania, I can't get cable or satellite Internet service, but I did notice that my iPhone was loading e-mail and web sites quicker than was my dial-up connection on my computer. So I asked AT&T if they had something that would get me on the 3G network from the desktop. Sure, the rep told me, they have a little USB cell phone that would connect for me. So I got the thing, which involved signing up for a two year contract with an early termination fee. This worked fine... for about a year. Then, AT&T "upgraded" their 3G network, and I haven't been able to connect since, from either my phone or computer. After waiting a couple of months to see if the service would ever come back, I called AT&T and asked them to stop billing me for the service they were no longer delivering. The first person I talked to was sympathetic, but said she would have to put me in touch with a manager, because she could not waive the terminati...

'If we find a man whom we respect as a sensible and thoughtful person confessing that he was once led into materialism or Mormonism or murder, we expect him to be able to tell us what it was in these things that he found worthy to attract him.' -- R.G. Collingwood, Speculum Mentis

how many are perfect after one day of play? "All the upsets caused havoc in ESPN’s Tournament Challenge yesterday, where just 56 perfect brackets remain of the 4.8 million entries." I figure random selection on the part of all participants would have produced 1172 correct brackets.

So why is it OK for the very same people to so gleefully attack Obama ?