tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62768662012-02-15T23:41:15.251-08:00Yet another baboon with an opinion.Cthulhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16220371088078805295noreply@blogger.comBlogger441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276866.post-13391186387048211632007-06-15T17:36:00.000-07:002007-06-19T16:55:28.906-07:00

Remember before, when we had no idea who Deborah Frisch was?Man, I miss those days.UPDATE: Frisch commented on this post on one of her blogs. However, due to repeated terms of service violations, including direct violations of court orders, it didn't stay up for long.One of the sites that has followed her actions has a common refrain: "trust teh cycle." For a time, Frisch is silent online. I

Cthulhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16220371088078805295noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276866.post-17863093552675836582007-01-06T21:53:00.000-08:002007-01-06T22:02:01.727-08:00

I'm moving Rant, Monkey! to a new host, because, you know, the traffic here is overwhelming. We're moving on up, to the West Side...I'll keep this one, but won't be updating it. At some point the "rant-monkey.com" domain will point you to the new location, but I'll keep "new" and "old" links up so you, my teeming legions of readers, will not get lost in the tubes and end up someplace like

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"Because of the exceedingly great length of the war ... many had become hardened, because of the exceedingly great length of the war; and many were softened because of their afflictions"No two people will respond identically to every situation. Some relationships are deepend by a crisis; others, destroyed. Some collapse under great stress; others cannot reach their full potential without

Cthulhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16220371088078805295noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276866.post-47972068406895423032006-12-28T09:39:00.000-08:002006-12-28T09:46:43.034-08:00

If there isn't an Internet term for what Iowahawk does, there should be.In his latest mockpuppet theater of the absurd, he inhabits the id of Joseph Rago, the WSJ editor who dissed the blogosphere last week.

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The news that Monica Lewinski earned a M.A. from the London School of Economics is...news, apparently.I don't really want to talk about that.What I did want to mention was something I just noticed - the Washington Post allows comments on articles now. The results are about what you'd expect.It doesn't seem to matter what the topic is - everyone with an opinion on SOMETHING will find a way to use

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I lost most of my Saturday last week to nbc.com, which as a "public service" provides free, full-content access to some of their programming.One of them, a drama called "Heroes," ate my Saturday.It's an interesting premise, but not revolutionary in fiction: some ordinary humans are, or soon will no longer be, merely ordinary. The X-Men is just one example. The 4400 is another. Smallville uses

Cthulhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16220371088078805295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276866.post-9507192918146219332006-12-20T11:44:00.000-08:002006-12-20T14:24:07.233-08:00

Courtesy of Joeschmo, here is a link to an interview Weird Al Yankovic conducted with someone named Kay Fed.The normally affable Al runs this Kay Fed fellow through a verbal wood chipper, mocking his album, music video, tattoo, parenting skills, inability to breathe through his nostrils, and so on.And this, after the young man complimented Al's new album, "Straight Outta Lynwood." Not very

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Attention People of Earth:As 2005 draws to a close, Domus Cornelius is still standing.Our second burglary in as many years has led to more enhanced security for the New Year. We now have bars on the windows, deadbolts on the doors, and venomous spiders lurking within every crevice. The skulls of our would-be robbers now line the electrified front yard fence facing the middle school across the

Cthulhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16220371088078805295noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276866.post-1166206991394603392006-12-15T10:23:00.000-08:002006-12-15T11:59:14.746-08:00

Oh my.I haven't checked my site in a couple of days. I didn't get any comments the day I posted so I figured there was no interest.I'm going to have to hunt down last year's "heads on pikes" letter, but I promise to post it.Here is this year's. Like I said - probably won't live up to the hype.In the comments, if you'd like to share your favorite - or most hated - moments in Holiday Letters, go

Cthulhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16220371088078805295noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276866.post-1166030329812455232006-12-13T09:18:00.000-08:002006-12-13T09:22:39.836-08:00

We were too broke for Christmas cards our first year together, but last year we sent some out. My wife asked me to write it, so I threw something together.My first draft was not serious. I expected her to say, " 'heads on pikes' has no place in a Christmas letter!" and hand it back for a rewrite...or give up and write it herself.Instead, she loved it as is, and before I could ask what she

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I used to joke at restaurants that if the burger I ordered didn't make my arm go numb, I'd want my money back.I've just met my match: The Heart Attack Grill, in Tempe, AZ.Not only do they have a "quadruple bypass burger," their waitresses are nurses. Not just ANY nurse, neither: Shannon Tweed candy-striper Showtime After Dark HELLLOOOO NURSE! nurses.If you FINISH one of the restaurant's

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A certain gerbilly butterfly said she'd be posting on my site as soon as a certain dreaded Hoffy visage fell off the home page.I don't see no steenking flutterby.I'm so ronery...

Cthulhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16220371088078805295noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276866.post-1165825276845283632006-12-11T00:21:00.000-08:002006-12-11T10:17:52.933-08:00

My co-conspirators at Teh Squeaky Wheel have far better blogs than I do.They write because they have interesting things to say, independent of Gerbil Nation.Me, I have the most fun playing off other people. Spouting off on my own blog was never part of my plans; I signed up for this domain name years ago, but I've done squat with it.I feel like Howie Mandel. "Okay, someone give me an occupation

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Teh Squeaky Wheel notes the latest in the ongoing legal troubles of Dr. Deborah Frisch, whose occupation until recently was, ironically, teaching decision science.I've had my share of fun at her expense, and I've swapped plenty of insults with her in the months following her Independence Day meltdown. But though I'm glad that she is being held to account for her actions - she has caused a lot of

Cthulhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16220371088078805295noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276866.post-1165357577491457082006-12-05T14:26:00.000-08:002006-12-05T14:26:17.666-08:00

Much as I like WordPress - which Blogger doesn't use but which I use for other blogs - I always fear the "upgrade to latest" notification.Note to self: learn how to back up databases.

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This should keep me busy for a while.1. import list into Excel.2. Sort by size.3. Mark books read.4. Read, mark, read, mark...4. Weep like my brother during the "lava-roasted Annakin" scene when there are no worlds left to conquer.All lists like this have their biases. In my hardcore sci-fi days I was frequently told, "you're not a REAL sf fan unless you've read [x]." Sometimes, I enjoyed the

Cthulhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16220371088078805295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276866.post-1165029144786078812006-12-01T19:12:00.000-08:002006-12-01T19:12:24.796-08:00

The BBC reports that singer Elton John had words for Australian PM John Howard.This from the guy who will probably sing "Goodbye, Cuba's Rose" at Fidel's funeral.Perhaps Elton and John could settle their differences in a boxing ring. Saturday night's all right for fighting, is it not?

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Fox News says 'Apocalypto' Is More 'Mad Max' Than Mayan.Bummer.I was looking forward to this movie. Gibson even had a Maya scholar consulting him. But the result, while I'm sure will be visually stunning, will also be visually numbing.I like a good "heads roll" shot as much as the next drive-in movie fan. But there does come a saturation point, at which you either tune out in disgust, or tune

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[Insert scoop here]

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I try to write something marginally serious, and get bupkis.Guess I'll have to break out the big guns.

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Ace of Spades calls Sullivan out on his own addlepated hypocrisy.Won't do much good - Sullivan never met a criticism he didn't go nuclear over - but it's nice to see the ranks of people seeing Sullivan for what he is.If only to see Andrew's head explode like that dude on SCANNERS, I'm pushing hard for a Romney/Santorum 2008 ticket.

Cthulhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16220371088078805295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276866.post-1164662813925541652006-11-27T13:26:00.000-08:002006-11-27T13:26:54.233-08:00

We've had a few weeks to digest the house and senate races, and the subsequent scramble for the reshuffled "deck chairs on the Hindenburg," still in progress.I've read many recaps of What Happened. Most agree that it was a referendum on President Bush and the war in Iraq.But I'm not so sure.Many of the Republican officeholders who lost, frankly, deserved to. The problem was that they all came

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Nice mashup of Reno and Weird Al Yankovic:

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Driver in gas station: "Didn't you see me backing up?"?Me: "I was boxed in. And honking at you to stop before you hit me."Driver: "Oh. I didn't hear you. I was on my way to work and sh*t. Doesn't look that bad...."

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I returned home from an early morning doctor appointment today to find a Chihuahua on my front lawn.At least the Taco Bell dog has panache. This two-pound yapping vermin wasn't at all neighborly.So, no more jokes about rat dogs, since they appear when I reference them.From now on I'm joking only about supermodels and generous billionaires.

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when someone says, "somehow in the back of my head I just knew you had all the Taco Bell talking rats..."and somehow, in the back of my head, I know exactly what it means to fit that description.Ai chihuahua...

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I'm tired.I don't have to look at the dial to know what station I'm on - all the KFI (AM 640 Los Angeles) news readers sound like Leah Brandon. Brandon sounds like the sister of John Ziegler, who sounds like the kissing cousin of John and Ken, who suckled at the vocal teat of Bill Handel.When you tune in to KFI, you know it.I tuned in to AM 870, home of Dennis Prager and Hugh Hewitt and Michael

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It has been brought to my attention that I have a blog.*cough* kinda dusty in here.

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It's funny how even the blackest clouds can have silver linings.For every Deborah Frisch, there should be a donthiredeb.blogspot.com. Every crazed troll (Left, Right, or off-center) should have a page devoted to tracking them like my uncle logs Bigfoot sightings.Granted, low-hanging fruitcakes like Frisch are rare - educated far beyond her intelligence, BDS'ed to incoherence, and so extreme in

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I'm more of a lurker than a participant in the Great Online Conversation, but the past month has sucked me into a truly bizarre spectacle.Dr. Deb Frisch, a self-proclaimed Moonbat and "the Ann Coulter of the Left," decided to stir up trouble and get herself banned from Protein Wisdom, a site run by Jeff Goldstein.He didn't ban her. But her comments became outrageous enough to prompt her to

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The more evil Hillary commits, the worse Helen Thomas looks. (warning: not for the squeamish)hat tip: The Political Teen

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Been a while since i've posted anything, but I was interested in the withdrawal of Harriett Miers and the nomination of Samuel Alito, from the perspective of Senator Harry Reid.Bush nominates Miers, a name specifically and loudly endorsed by Reid. Miers has many admirable qualities and an impressive resume...just not for the Supreme Court. The nomination is an utter disaster with the

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TAPPED takes Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review Online to task for mentioning Sen. Robert Byrd's efforts to delay the confirmation vote of Condleeza Rice. They call it a variation on the "conservo-race card". One semi-obvious point. If you can't tweak a former GRAND SWIZZLE-STICK OF THE KU KLUX KRUNKIN' KLAN over a point of racial politics, who CAN you? There is much good to say about

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The New York Daily News reports that Bill Clinton's new presidential library and grill attempts to spin his impeachment as a defense of the constitution. Clinton insists he never lied to the American people 'about my job', and defies anyone to find an instance 'where I ever let the American people down." Hoo boy, where to begin. On second thought, why even bother. Bill is sooooo September

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TNR's Martin Peretz has a piece in today's OpinionJournal.com that unsparingly reviews the 2004 election. As a partisan Republican it's no surprised I'm glad my guy won, but on a more objective level...the more I read about Kerry, the more convinced I am that we dodged a bullet by keeping him out of the big chair. This has nothing to do with politics and ideology, and everything to do with

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Tony Blankley has a solid piece on the wistful dreams of some disaffected Dems for secession, including Lawrence O'Donnell, who in saner moments is a great writer on The West Wing...and who in not-so-sane moments sounds like the angry kid on the kickball field whose vocabulary is limited to variations on the word "liar." I must confess, the idea of letting the Pacific Coast counties, the Great

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Stones Cry Out has a good collection of pro- and con- arguments about Senator Specter's bid to chair the Judiciary committee.

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Arlen Specter argues in today's Wall Street Journal that he has "consistently opposed any litmus test." Specter's eagerness to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee is leading him to say many of the right things...and if those were the only words he's uttered on the matter, it might be sufficient. It isn't. Specter may dodge the "litmus test" bullet, but he's branded too many of the wrong

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Blowin' out candles and kickin' ass... - Jonah's military guys at Argghhh! wish their interservice rivals a happy one. 229 years and counting... Godspeed to the Marines and to everyone serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. You are in our prayers.

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The American Thinker offers an American creed that I could quibble with in parts, but not as a whole. It is a credo for a country I think anyone could live in comfortably, 'blue state' as well as 'red state'. It largely boils down to 'live and let live' with a good balance of liberty and responsibility. Well done, American Thinker.

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Henninger on the Blue State Generation Gap: John Kerry tapped into the Vietnam Rage zeitgeist, apparently. And its backlash.

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I've tried to not be too vocal about the elections. I'm a Republican, and I'm happy with the result, though of course not entirely - who is? When you lose, you want to win. When you win close, you want to win big. And when you win big, you want the losers to learn the right lessons. I like the two-party system we have in this country. But that depends on two legitimate parties, and I fear

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A question for Sidney Blumenthal: If you write that someone libeled you - referring to a time you sued Matt Drudge for libel and LOST - isn't that libel? Just asking.

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2004 promises to be an eventful year: my brother and I are engaged to two lovely and feisty young women; it's a Presidential election year; and the War on Terror continues. More about me and this site to come.

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