Archive for January, 2007
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Rep. Barry Fleming wants to kill on anecdotal evidence
Majority Whip Barry Fleming hates the jury system:
The bill, which was filed Friday, would give judges the discretion to impose the death sentence on nonunanimous jury verdicts in which at least nine jurors voted for execution.
Prosecutors say the change will help them secure death penalty verdicts, which are increasingly difficult to get as questions mount […]
8 Comments » - Posted in File this, Politics by shelbinator
Saturday, January 27th, 2007
I drink Guinness
My senior year of high school, every runner in Miami was chasing after this guy named Luiz Prestes. Luiz was an oddly shaped little fellow — kind of short, vaguely trapezoidal like a gymnast or something — who quickly pulled so far away from the rest of us we couldn’t even see his bright […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Culture, Nostalgia, Politics by shelbinator
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Oh cluck me it’s really here!
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Oh cluck me it’s really here!, originally uploaded by shelbinator.
8 Comments » - Posted in Photo, Random by shelbinator
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Document your SOTU watch
Party on, people! Sorry for the late notice, but chances are a lot of you are near the computer in preparation for the SotU. If you happen to have company, and one o’ them newfangled picture-phones, send pictures and video clips of your get together to sotu07@cellblock.com to share your thoughts/group photos/obscene gestures at the […]
1 Comment » - Posted in File this by shelbinator
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
You know you’re a nerd when
…you are reading a thread on a political blog and every time someone mentions HRC you think of the Rockwell Hardness C-scale.
No Comments » - Posted in Geekery, Random by shelbinator
Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Ignore Iran, then arm them
First Dick Cheney rejects massive concession package from Iran, then then Pentagon sells them fighter jet parts.
Iran offered the US a package of concessions in 2003, but it was rejected, a senior former US official has told the BBC’s Newsnight programme.
Tehran proposed ending support for Lebanese and Palestinian militant groups and helping to stabilise Iraq […]
No Comments » - Posted in File this by shelbinator
Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Political pop-tarts
Apparently, there’s quite the smear campaign going on simultaneously against Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and I’m just now hearing about it. I wondered for a moment how I could have been so out of the loop, but then I remembered, I read the news, not soiled reams of toilet paper, and I’ve never […]
7 Comments » - Posted in Politics by shelbinator
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Tell me where the bomb is!
From today’s Global Security Newswire, there is apparently some concern over 24’s provocative content.
Stereotypes about Arabs are promoted on shows such as “24,” [Communications Professor Sut] Jhally said. The episode Monday made direct connections between Arabs and nuclear terrorism, and comes amidst fears in Washington that Iran is developing atomic weapons, he said.
What’s more […]
5 Comments » - Posted in (In)security by shelbinator
Monday, January 15th, 2007
Say cheese, human
Sure, I used to eat my vegetables as a kid. Broccoli in particular provided so many of the vitamins that went into the excellent health I have done everything in my power to undermine since I moved out on my own. Lots and lots of broccoli, just as long as, mind you, it […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Food, The Dogfather by shelbinator
Friday, January 12th, 2007
Tick tock, we’re gonna die
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists issued a press advisory today indicating that they will move the hands of the Doomsday Clock on Wednesday, January 17. Hint: They’re moving it closer to midnight, which is bad, citing Iran & North Korea, loose nuclear material in the FSU, escalating terrorism (thanks, George), and — opening the […]
