Like speed dating, but you don't get to take me home afterwards.

I'm in the full throes of bar study so you may not see much more of me until the end of February.  Bar study sucks.  Especially when you're working full time.  (But work is going well.)

There's a major storm outside right now, and the house is shaking.  I hope it's the wind and not a series of earthquakes.  The power went out at some point and now our smoke alarm batteries are dead.

You are the rare, the overlooked, yet incredibly useful dodecahedron: the d12. You are a creative, romantic soul. You often act without thinking, but make up for your lack of plans with plenty of heart. You easily solve problems that stump others, but your answers tend to put you into even deeper trouble.

I hate to admit that Bush was right and the liberals were wrong.  I really, really hate to admit it.  Most of all I'm afraid of what this will do to the 2008 campaign.  But, in the spirit of academic honesty, an article from the latest Economist:

Must they be wars without end?

"Democracies need the courage to withdraw from wars that bring no good, but also to persevere in just ones—even when the end is not yet in sight."

Credit to my buddy Ben Laurilla for finding this gem.  Apparently Major League baseball doesn't want you to address someone as a "cock-sucking bastard." From 1897.
Robert Edward Auctions » Can we even run this? 1898 Obscene Language Baseball Document – Not For Kids!

Since Kubuntu decided to change the default file manager from Konqueror to Dolphin, there's been a lot of flaming online.  Let me start by saying I understand why they did it and I agree.  The (K)Ubuntu teams have made some odd choices and frankly Konqueror was one of them.  People used to complain that it was a bad choice as a default web browser, which isn't really true; people just needed to get used to it.  But before Dolphin came along, the most common complaint about Konqueror was that it was too complicated.  People make the same complaint about KDE, in