http://self-composed.com/wordpress Pipes, politics, and passing thoughts Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:21:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More people watched the Republican convention than any convention ever. That includes the Democratic convention - stadium, Styrofoam pillars, and all. I doubt this would be true had McCain chosen someone other than Sarah Palin. It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next couple months, but ... http://self-composed.com/wordpress/2008/09/06/republican-convention-sets-record-for-number-of-viewers/ Twice as many people were killed there over the summer than in Iraq. We need to pull out of there and turn it over to the Chicagoans. Link http://self-composed.com/wordpress/2008/09/04/time-to-find-an-exit-strategy-for-chicago/ Not quite a year ago the liberal biased mainstream media was singing a different song about Governor Palin. There are more female governors in office than ever before, and they are making their mark with a pragmatic, postpartisan approach to solving state problems. Pragmatic, postpartisan.... That sounds just like what they're ... http://self-composed.com/wordpress/2008/09/04/a-year-ago-palin-was-a-shining-example-of-how-great-a-woman-can-govern/ It seems like Maltese Falcon was just released - I guess it has been about six months. Now Key Largo has been released, according to C&D. I'm looking forward to trying this one. I dig the new art deco label design. I hope he sticks with that. Greg's description: Deep, earthy and ... http://self-composed.com/wordpress/2008/07/13/the-new-greg-pease-blend-is-on-the-streets/ In a Rueters article fawning over Obama's "call to service" the writer inserts this small paragraph smack dab in the middle: He also would offer more service opportunities to retirees and set goals for middle- and high-school students to serve 50 hours a year of public service, and for college students ... http://self-composed.com/wordpress/2008/07/03/yet-another-example-of-whats-wrong-with-the-media/ An employer in California has given his employees the ultimatum to quit smoking in 15 months or be fired. He has began refusing to hire smokers and extended the ban to employees with family members who smoke. His employees are subject to blood testing to ensure compliance with his rules. Good ... http://self-composed.com/wordpress/2008/06/18/refusing-to-hire-smokers/ I stopped by del.icio.us to find out why Firefox 3 doesn't have a extension available, and found out there is a new one. It doesn't show up in Add-ons dialogue, but you can download it here. http://self-composed.com/wordpress/2008/05/22/delicious-firefox-3-extension-available/ We have a guy who's black (and white) running for president and apparently we need some UN schmuck to come investigate. The special rapporteur on “contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance,” Doudou Diène of Senegal, will arrive in America Monday for a two-week tour...He will also hobnob ... http://self-composed.com/wordpress/2008/05/19/un-to-investigate-racism-in-us-elections/ Source I think I like this idea. I have kids, and when they were that age I didn't take them to nice restaurants out of respect for the other patrons who likely choose nicer restaurants at least in part for the atmosphere. Noisy, messy kids don't make for a ... http://self-composed.com/wordpress/2008/05/12/no-6-year-olds-allowed-in-restaurant/ I got tired of the old theme. Mainly because I jacked a few things up with the inner workings of php and Wordpress, so I decided just to use a theme created by someone else, modify it to my liking, and go from there. That's what it looked ... http://self-composed.com/wordpress/2008/05/09/under-construction-sorta/