Quote of the week
“I’m not crabby. I’m pensive.”
-Fred Tate, “Little Man Tate”
Category: words mean things (Page 74 of 223)
My dear friend Becky paid me the best compliment the other day, and I wanted to share it with everyone. I was telling her that I was trying to stay away from the war coverage, since it made me crazy, but I kept coming back to it. I said something like, there should be a support group for people like me. She responded:
“I think the support group is your weblog — a really fine bunch of web & other friends you have — for their political views and their humor and their intelligence.”
Thanks, Becky.
Saw the “Matrix Reloaded” preview on Entertainment Tonight yesterday. Ever since the “Matrix” sequels have been announced, I’ve been worried that nothing could possibly surpass (or even equal) the original, and that these movies would go down the “Star Wars” route – giant messes that everyone would go to see anyway, no matter how bad they were. But I was impressed by the preview, unlike my reaction to the, say, “Attack of the Clones” trailer, which filled me with (as it turns out, understandable) dread.
“Reloaded” is just a month away. I’m cautiously excited.
Is it unseemly to talk about your web statistics, like revealing your salary to co-workers? I don’t know. But that doesn’t stop me from being curious about what other people’s traffic is like. Last week I hit an all-time high of just under 3,600 visits/sessions that week. Is that high or low for an average, non-A-list weblog? I know, I should just do this for my own sake blah blah blah. But who among us wouldn’t like more readers?
Latest pop-up ad
Billy Graham’s son Franklin, who called Islam “a very evil and very wicked religion,” is planning to bring his group Samaritan’s Purse into Iraq “to provide for the population?s post-war physical and spiritual needs,” according to a story on Beliefnet. Franklin Graham says his group isn’t there to preach or convert, but…
?I believe as we work, God will always give us opportunities to tell others about his Son,” he told BeliefNet. “We are there to reach out to love them and to save them, and as a Christian I do this in the name of Jesus Christ.?
Some Muslims aren’t so thrilled with the plan. And seriously, is this the face of America we want to present to Iraq?
On Excite TV listings for tonight
60 Minutes II (New): A psychological profile of Saddam Hussein by those who knew him.
Jumping the gun? Wishful thinking? Or do they *know something* over at 60 Minutes? Interesting too because of the current “Saddam? We don’t care about Saddam. He’s dead or hiding somewhere or something. It doesn’t matter” attitude in the administration.
Quote of the Day
“While people have a right to free speech, they do not have a right to a free arrest.”
-Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who wants to charge arrested anti-war protestors with the cost of their own prosecution.
Sometimes I wonder if the world can just continue to get crazier and crazier with no letup. Aren’t we going to reach a point where things just have to veer back toward sanity? Isn’t that some sort of physics principle? Help me out here.
Can you keep a secret?
Have you put Miss Anthropy on your must-read list yet? Her recent posts on Cher and “Dude, Where’s My Car?” are worth the price of admission alone. And don’t tell anyone I told you this, but Miss Anthropy is actually Haidi of Top Ten Blog! and Haidi.org, two gone but lamented web resources. Miss Anthropy is her secret alter ego. Sort of like Batman. But not exactly. Go there now!
Jon Stewart had a great line last night when talking about “bunker-buster” bombs dropped on a Baghdad restaurant where Saddam was rumored to be meeting with his sons, “leaving what coalition forces called a ‘freedom hole.'”