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Buckethead, the Moties never would have made it more than a thousand kilometers from their initial Murcheson Point if the boneheaded, pollyanna interstellar policy of the Bush III administration had not cut the budget of the Murcheson Fleet to the quick. What, Alderson Drives just build themselves? Clinton/Daschle, as awful as they may be, are merely trying to hold back the tide with a teaspoon. A Bush-III-mandated teaspoon.

Kiss your human butt goodbye, two-arms.

[moreover] For those of you who think we're insane, I give you this classic science fiction novel.

The sign builder is a good way to waste some time. When we move this blog to a more salubrious clime, you will be able to see the results of buckethead cut loose on one of the time wasting webtools.

[wik] The Ministry of Future Perfidy notes that in the unimaginably distant year of 2025, this link still works, and it still looks exactly the same.  

Wow

The control panel for the blog looks different when you use Netscape 7. How's that for an engaging post after a weeks long absence.

Ross of Spiral Dive thinks we don't post enough. Well, hard cheese.

...everyone would just watch "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge" on TNN. If you want to meditate on the fluidity of cultural signifiers while you do it, that's your business.

I was unable to post yesterday due to an eye injury that left me in white-hot agony and temporarily blind. I have recovered quickly thanks to medical attention, and am back in the blogging business. Thank you for your support.

From Richard Brookhiser

If you are quoting scare quotes, I have no need to be angry with you, Mike - it only increases my distaste for Krugman.

Despite the unmedicated ravings of one commenter, I think any objective observer would conclude that I did not take advantage of the weekend absence of both my compatriots.

Go pick Dad up from the airport. Why couldn't he have flown into National? I don't want to haul my ass out to Dullas in rush hour.

Mike is on Sabattical. Johno on injured reserve. I have the whole website to myself!! Muwhahahahaha! Now the only person I have to contend with is Judson, and his inane comments. I will rule! I will make the most outrageous right wing statements, and no one will resist!

Sorry, did I say that out loud?

I did just make that same point in an email-- that 'bureaucracy' has been taken to mean 'artifice'. I'm going to give this one 24 hours to marinade before I bring out the long, dull knives, but I dunno, man. Something smells here, and I remembered to shower today.

Apologies to Judson. You're okay.

No posts for awhile.

The working classes that you correctly say constitute the majority of the military are also reliably the most patriotic segment of American society, and have always been. The academic and chattering classes are the only ones liable, as a group, to throw down their rifles like the French. The aims of actual members of the working class have rarely been what leftists always insist that they have to be.

I wasn't imputing that you said Anti-Irishism was widespread, merely saying that that was the first I've heard of it.

John writes, "I still want to know how Mike resolves Marxist orthodoxy with an evident love of the United States and its ways ..."

Easy. I'm not an Orthodox Marxist. I'm not really a Marxist for that matter. I use it when applicable to historical circumstances.

Mike, you should get a pat on the back for winning fights. They probably deserved it. But you lost fights? What a wuss...

heh.

full disclosure: I have never won a schoolyard fight. I might be able to now, if I picked on a sixth grader.

Just a quick note that I have been temporarily felled by a mysterious illness that I first mistook for allergies, then for a hangover, then for the SARS. It's just a nasty, wicked, evil cold. But it hurts. I am in the loving care of Goodwife Two-Cents until I am better. I am also barred from watching or talking any politics, as Tom Daschle is starting to look like my daddy. I hope I feel better soon.

High speed internet at last, High speed internet at last, thank God Almighty, High speed internet at last.

[Update] Now I can download artistic photographs (of a completely morally uplifting and non-prurient nature, of course) 50 times faster!