I suppose it’s inevitable, but it’s still kind of scary when you read just how much can be gleaned about you from your drivers license.
I hate your politics!
Yeah, well I hate your politics, too! Beautifully written, very funny, and very true.
Liberals: …Liberals are politically able to have all sorts of freaky mammal sex but typically don’t; good liberal foreplay is a permission slip and three layers of impermeable barriers. The only vaguely liberal person we know of who seemed to enjoy sex in the last 30 years is Clinton, and look what he got out of it….
Conservatives: …Conservatives don’t actually bother to spend time with people who are not conservative, and thus become confused and irritable when people disagree with them; fundamentally can’t see how that’s even possible, which shows an almost charming intellectual naivete….
Libertarians: …Never got over the fact they weren’t the illegitimate children of Robert Heinlein and Ayn Rand; currently punishing the rest of us for it…. Blissfully clueless that Libertarianism is just great as long as it doesn’t actually involve real live humans….
Should gay priests adopt?
Okay, now this one’s interesting. A column by conservative columnist Ann Coulter, “Should gay priests adopt?” Is there a point in here somewhere, or is she just trolling (being intentionally inflammatory with little purpose other than riling people up)?
New York, New York
Some fascinating links courtesy of this MeFi thread to sites and books looking at the New York of the past.
Copies are evil
Aw, crud. Republican Alaskan senator Ted Stevens has joined the (if you’ll excuse me) idiots backing a bill that would ban the sale of all electronic devices without embedded copy-protection chips, according to this WIRED story. This is a Bad Thing, for reasons which Cory makes clear over at Boing Boing.
Thujone
Thujone — the mystery ingredient that gives absinthe its mystique.
Go Hoosiers!
I’m not much of a sports fan, but after having two parents who went to IU, it does catch my eye when the Hoosiers beat Duke by one point, and move into the final eight.
Nixon was no stoner
Apparently the biggest reason marijuana is illegal in the US today is because Nixon wanted it to be.
Google vs. Scientology 2
Google has replaced the links it removed yesterday after a fight with the Scientology organization. This still shouldn’t have happened in the first place.
More site reorganization
If you’re a regular visitor, you’ve probably noticed by now that I’ve moved things around a bit. Basically, I’m working on simplifying the site, especially the first page that people see when they show up, trying to make things a bit less overwhelming (since I do tend to babble).
In essence, the first page of the site now serves as a table of contents/overview of what’s on the site. The table of contents that used to be on the left hand side of the page now fills the main content area, while the Long Letter blog itself has been moved to its own page. The links listed in the right sidebar have been split between the pages — more general links on the main page, and more blog-related links on the Long Letter page.
Lastly, I was able to set the entry for The Long Letter up so that it will always show a short summary of the most recent five entries in the blog. Clicking on the title of the blog will load the main page, while clicking on the title for the individual posts will jump to that entry on the main page.
Overall I think these will help simplify things. Feel free to e-mail or comment if you’ve got any thoughts on all this, of course.