Archive for February, 2006

Pistons an All-Star Team

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

I’ve slowly started to follow basketball a bit more this year. With the Pistons being so dominant, and with them being in the Finals for the past two years, its starting to even get my attention. Nice to have something to be proud of sports wise considering the Lions are an embarassment. […]

I wonder what this does to a guy’s ego

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

I saw this in the Detroit Free Press:

Al Michaels was traded from ABC to NBC for a cartoon bunny, four rounds of golf and Olympic highlights. The rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a bunny created by Walt Disney in the 1920s before he invented Mickey Mouse, were transferred from NBC Universal to The Walt […]

Gagging on Irony

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Israel plans to build ‘museum of tolerance’ on Muslim graves:
Skeletons are being removed from the site of an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem to make way for a $150m (£86m) “museum of tolerance” being built for the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre.
Palestinians have launched a legal battle to stop the work at what was […]

Look What I Found

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Seems I’m not the only one to have a run-in with a pornbot named dahrkhole. Seems I’m not the only one to post a conversation with it either. Some I’ve found, warning crude language lies ahead:
1. This guy actually got rid of it somehow.
2. One on Kuro5hin.
3. Scroll down […]

Alex’s 5th Annual Super-De-Duper-Bowl Extravaganza!

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Yesterday was my 5th Annual Superbowl party. Yay! As always there was a pretty good turnout, thanks everyone for coming! Jess & Doug get the award for longest distance traveled to come to one of my Superbowl parties, driving in from Pennslyvania. Thanks guys!
Once again our “pre-enactment” of the […]

Ageism Affects Us All

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

I just had a particularly illustrative experience at church today that I’d like to share. Half-way through the mass a group of people arrive quite late and sit down in the pew behind me. From the moment they sat down they were being incredibly obnoxious. Talking, swearing, making jokes, laughing. They […]

Images of Muhammad

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

Muhammad (Ali)

Is the SCOTUS in Danger?

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

I just noticed/remembered/heard that there is an image of Mohammed in a frieze inside the Supreme Court building. Its been there for a while now and no one has noticed, but… maybe it could be a target in the future because of this stupid Danish thing.

Should we be scared?

Interesting Page re: Danish Mohammed Cartoons

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Controversy over the publication of images depicting Mohammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has erupted into an international furor. While Muslims worldwide are calling for a boycott of Denmark and any other nation whose press reprints the cartoons, Europeans are trying to stand up for Western principles of freedom of speech and not cave in […]

The Youth Rights State of the Union

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

The state of our union at the start of 2006 is a state of fear. Politicians, the media, and special interests fan the flames of fear to justify calls for further restrictions on our civil rights and civil liberties. This directed campaign of fear affects the liberties of Americans from all corners of […]