Kicking it. Oldschool.
MintChaos has dug out it’s two year old stylings complete with the slugman. I’m sure Internet Explorer on Windows is having issues with the slug. Sad. But it’s to be expected. IE is racist against slugs. A new MintChaos is on the way. A MintChaos full of usefulness, complete with photos and links and a portfolio and love for all browsers. Even browsers that hate slugs. Until that time, if you are having problems with the site, I suggest you use a better browser. Browse Happy will help you find the way. It’s chock full of happy browsers.
Update: The slugman wanted me to pimp his wallpaper. Display it proudly on your computer. Show your support of mildly anthropomorphic slugs sitting on boxes that defy all laws of perspective.
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Commentary on election day commentary.
A pile of meta-commentary to break this site’s long tradition of
worthlessness. I’ve already voted this morning. If you haven’t yet,
you should. We may not have good options to pick from but we do have
options. And no matter what Farooq (see below) thinks, it does make
a difference.
The BBC’s US presidential election: Your views covers a whole range of thoughts.
I have just voted. My daughter and I may have been the only ones in
the line not voting for the incumbent. We were conscious and have
been for some time that people with less education do not seem to
understand a lot of the issues and have no feeling for what life is
like overseas. … — Leslie Sarn, Jonesboro, Arizona, USA
Intellectual elitism is alive and well.
Whatever the results, the only guarantee anyone has for these
elections is that half my countrymen will disagree with the outcome.
— Jenn, California, USA
True. True.
To me the biggest issue is how US democracy has become so
perverted. Each campaign has been spending $9 million per
day. Thousands of lawyers on both sides ready to do battle anytime
now. It’s all utterly obscene. What example is this to the rest of
the world? — James, Leeds, UK
Agreed. One of my biggest hopes for this election is that it will be
over tonight. But given how there are 23,500 election news stories
involving lawyers chances that we’ll have a nice clean
election are pretty slim. Welcome to democracy by litigation.
The American voters have no choice - though it is said it’s a
democratic country, it is worse than the USSR’s one party rule. …
—Farooq, Kuwait
Yes. And both canidates were even in the same ‘secret’ society in
college. They and everyone else in both parties are puppets of the
illuminati. It’s true. Even the voters here lack free-will. They are
forcing me to write this to [bzzt] fnord [bzzt]
Please don’t confuse being anti the ghastly Bush neo-con
administration with being anti-American! It’s not the same thing at
all. Let’s hope that sanity prevails and the sensible majority of
Americans do a spot of regime changing within their own country
today. — Anne F, Hertfordshire, UK
My name is Anne Hertfordshire and I approve this regime change. But
not that other one, the one with the genocidal dictator. That one is
evil.
Not my country, not my politics, not my business. — Adrian
Walker, Worthing England
A refreshing sentiment. Particularly in light of programs like this one from the UK’s Guardian to influence Ohio voters.
Counterpoint for this item is provided by the Amerika music video by Rammstien (Link requires iTunes). They even fake the lunar landing.
My favorite commentary of the day though comes from Ernie the
attorney’s post How dare you express your opposing political view in
my presence!. He even works in an equally insightful bit from
novelist Tom Wolfe. The entire post is quoted below, but Ernie’s other
election post Getting attention from politicians makes me feel
loved is also worth reading.
I’m not saying who I’m voting for, at least not here. But those who
know me really well know who I’m voting for. (I am not into using
this blog as a pulpit for my personal politial views). The thing
that needs to be emphasized is that we have gotten too intolerant of
opposing political views.
I found this article about the novelist Tom Wolfe intriguing, not
because he seems to support Bush, but because of his observations
about the reaction he gets from people when he says anything
pro-Bush. For example, at a dinner party he said: “If all else
fails, you can vote for Bush.” Then, according to Wolfe
“People looked at me as if I had just said: ‘Oh, I forgot to tell
you, I am a child molester.’ I would vote for Bush if for no other
reason than to be at the airport waving off all the people who say
they are going to London if he wins again. Someone has got to stay
behind.”
I’m going to stay behind too. However, if someone has a spare ticket
and a place for me to stay, I’d like to go London too. But not for
political reasons. I just want to see London, if that’s okay with
everyone.
I would also like to see london. :)
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