Given Rall's unfunny and repugnant "9/11 widows" cartoon, I can't say I'm surprised he's still doing it.
Hell, Mallard Fillmore, which as far as I can tell the Boston Globe publishes in an attempt to make conservatives look stupid and unfunny, is better than his stuff.
rea: why yes, as I lie bleeding near my wrecked car, I always pull out the laptop and cell phone, hook them up, and google for a suitable air ambulance. From Belarus.
Heh.
Oh, the irony of George W. Bush invoking the name of Milton Hershey.
Quoth the Guardian:
[T]he town dreamed up by the 19th-century confectionery magnate Milton Hershey - a worker's utopia of good schools, free healthcare, affordable housing, theatres, parks and a zoo, built on profits from the ubiquitous chocolate bar and the conical, silver-wrapped Kisses.
A far cry from "No Child Left Behind" or the "Medicare drug benefit" methinks.
I blogged a bit on the Romney-appointment issue...seems that Mitt is less interested in "let the people vote" and more in favor of unelected gubernatorial appointees (like, er, the SJC justices) when it's his chance to name a Senator.
Just as long as she doesn't call it "How To Get a Good Book Republished With Old Typos".
Cambridge (MA) almost started issuing them in November after the SJC decision, but decided to wait out the 180 day clock instead. We don't have a strong-mayor form of city government, though....
Yup, Kerry and Bush agree on every single thing in the world. That's why Bush is going on about the "sanctity of marriage" and "preserving a sacred institution" and Kerry voted against DOMA, even if he is waffling on the current Massachusetts situation.
Yup. No difference at all. Sheesh.
Y'know, I really miss James White, and I never even got the chance to meet him.
I still have hopes that one of the effects of continued European integration will be the eventual irrelevance of which, if any, country Northern Ireland is legally a part of.
I say this as someone who is married to a dual British-Irish citizen, lives near Boston (the only city outside the island of Ireland in which I've seen IRA mural art), and whose sympathies definitely lie on the side of the group of people who just want to live their lives in peace without bothering--or being bothered--by folks who want to keep taking sides, often violently.
Ginger: check out http://www.slimdevices.com/ for boxes that will let you stream your iTunes library to your stereo, complete with remote control, etc.
Jon H: agreed. I remember the MacTV, and the Performa 638CD (came with a TV tuner card). Neither of them was exactly a great seller.
Ah, yes, killall; I avoid killall, for a very very simple reason.
Different Unix and Unix-alikes have different behavior for the killall command. On Linux or *BSD systems, it does what you describe.
On Solaris, or Tru64 Unix, and probably on some other commercial versions...it kills everything.
As a system administrator who often has to use root, I have a strong aversion to typing anything that when run in the wrong window will bring down a production server instantly.
Another way to do process kills is to use:
kill `ps -xo pid,ucomm | awk '/pattern/ {print $1}'`
This avoids killing your own grep process in certain situations, because the -o pid,ucomm prints only the process id and the command itself without the arguments; avoiding the -a flag also avoids confusion with other users' processes (not a problem on many OS X boxes, but good practice anyway).
Though Cmd-Opt-Escape's force quit usually works, it's good to know how to do it if you really need to.
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