http://slapnose.com/ en-us anthony@slapnose.com 2007-03-21T12:28:18-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2007/03/21/sweet_jeebus/ This.. wow. Holy super wow. Plenty more to be found in this post from WFMU. (via Blogtown and Slog)... 1954@http://slapnose.com/ Religion 2007-03-21T12:28:18-08:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2007/03/13/ultraviolet_dreams/ Continuing my one post per month tradition, here's a post about space. On February 25, NASA was calibrating the camera aboard their new STEREO B spaceship when they happened to catch the moon transiting in front of the sun. The... 1953@http://slapnose.com/ Science 2007-03-13T14:49:17-08:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2007/02/14/creating_polls_in_movable_type/ Oh, how terribly boring this will be to most of you. And on Valentine's Day no less! Then again, my near complete lack of posting in the past, oh, 6 months, means there really is no "most of you" anymore.... 1952@http://slapnose.com/ Movable Type 2007-02-14T10:16:56-08:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2007/01/11/tacoma_jumps_the_shark/ Local hamlet Federal Way (Motto: "It's not Tacoma, but we can see it from here!"), has joined the ranks of the tragically stupid by subverting the education of an entire town's school children because one delusional parent complained. This week... 1947@http://slapnose.com/ Environment 2007-01-11T09:09:24-08:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2006/11/21/a_history_lesson_mr_president/ Keith Olbermann schools Bush on the real lessons of Vietnam. Ouch. It's a giant tragedy that this is so right, and Bush will never know.... 1946@http://slapnose.com/ Iraq 2006-11-21T08:08:27-08:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2006/11/10/best_thing_ever/ Wow. Except for maybe this:... 1945@http://slapnose.com/ Music 2006-11-10T13:04:39-08:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2006/11/06/here_we_go/ A nice little reminder of what's been going on around here for the past 6 years. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you support George W. Bush at this point, I fear for your mental health.... 1944@http://slapnose.com/ Politics 2006-11-06T08:24:51-08:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2006/10/05/comments_change/ Due to the rampant assholery of comment spammers and my decreasing ability to keep up with their pathetic asses, I've closed comments on all posts more than 30 days old. So if you have something to say, say it fast.... 1943@http://slapnose.com/ Site News 2006-10-05T11:25:57-08:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2006/10/04/the_orwell_factor/ This, I submit to you, is just going too damn far. Notice anything weird about this image of former Congressman Mark "The Alcohol Made Me Go After Teenage Boys" Foley? Hmmm.. Oh, yeah! It says he's a Democrat!! I mean,... 1942@http://slapnose.com/ Politics 2006-10-04T09:55:13-08:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2006/09/29/bye_bye_badunk/ And so we come to the end of a long chapter in vehicle ownership. That's right, the venerated Badunkadunk has been sold. The old girl served us well, but alas was lonely and neglected these past couple of years, yearning... 1941@http://slapnose.com/ My Life 2006-09-29T13:48:42-08:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2006/09/11/what_weve_lost/ I'm not a particularly big fan of symbolic remembrances, but it's impossible not to think about 9/11 today, and my prevailing emotion is one of sadness. Not (only) for the loss of innocent life on that day, but for the... 1940@http://slapnose.com/ 9/11 2006-09-11T09:51:33-08:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2006/08/29/katrina_timeline/ One year later, a must read: Think Progress' exhaustive Katrina Timeline. Many, many of the major actors in this tragedy should be in prison for the way this was handled. Instead, they're still running our country.... 1939@http://slapnose.com/ Hurricane Katrina 2006-08-29T14:24:25-08:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2006/08/17/focus_on_this_jerks/ UPDATE:: This no longer works. This is just about the best thing ever. In brief: Focus on the Family, James Dobson's rabidly anti-gay, anti-everything good, and highly politically-connected group, will send you just about all the bullshit propaganda you want... 1938@http://slapnose.com/ Gay Rights 2006-08-17T14:24:46-08:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2006/07/26/washington_joins_ranks_of_states_that_suck/ Today Washington state's Supreme Court upheld the state's 1998 "Defense of Marriage Act." I guess the justices didn't want our state to be behind the curve of bigotry and discrimination vis-a-vis the rest of the country. Very sad. Here's the... 1937@http://slapnose.com/ Gay Rights 2006-07-26T08:22:58-08:00 http://slapnose.com/archives/2006/06/26/an_inconvenient_truth/ In honor of Seattle's ongoing record-breaking heat wave, Liz and I finally went to see An Inconvenient Truth (a.k.a. "The Al Gore Movie") yesterday evening. Please, if you haven't seen it yet, go see it as soon as you can.... 1936@http://slapnose.com/ Movies 2006-06-26T08:00:41-08:00