• Hot Off The Presses

    Four Years Later, Disbarred and Deflated

    Hey, remember back in 2004 when we were all freaked out about the primaries, and this little story about a judge who liked to “pump it up” in court broke into the news?  Well, it took them long enough, but the Oklahoma Supreme Court disbarred him. Judge disbarred for using sex device at trial :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday disbarred a former judge who served prison time for using a sexual device while presiding over trials. Former Creek County District Judge Donald Thompson, 61, was accused of using a ‘‘penis pump’’…

  • Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA) - Politics, Schmolitics

    Project Fair Play | Stop Illegal Church Electioneering

    It’s amazing how much I didn’t know about the separation of church and state. I’ve always been a big proponent of the concept (hmm, something to do with being bullied as a redheaded stranger-child in a near-theocracy). But I didn’t know where the limitations lay, and I came up short in a discussion of politics at, of all places, Holy Moly. I had been incensed over the last week or so about how the LDS Church was throwing a lot of money at Proposition 8 (the gay marriage ban) in California, and today I was dismayed to find that the…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Mini-Posts - Politics, Schmolitics

    McCain: Political Dirty Trickster

    In These Times – March 6, 2000 – Free Ride Here is what happened: McCain boasted to my wife and me over lunch in Washington that he had planted complex questions with the Senate Interior Committee chairman to sabotage the testimony of Arizona Gov. Rose Mofford, a Democrat, about the Central Arizona Project, the multibillion-dollar Colorado River water delivery system for Arizona urban areas. When I protested to McCain that the project had enjoyed bipartisan support for nearly 50 years, from conservative Barry Goldwater to liberal Morris Udall, McCain retorted: “I’m duty bound to embarrass a Democrat whenever I can.”

  • Hot Off The Presses - Mini-Posts - Politics, Schmolitics

    McCain: Political Dirty Trickster

    In These Times – March 6, 2000 – Free Ride Here is what happened: McCain boasted to my wife and me over lunch in Washington that he had planted complex questions with the Senate Interior Committee chairman to sabotage the testimony of Arizona Gov. Rose Mofford, a Democrat, about the Central Arizona Project, the multibillion-dollar Colorado River water delivery system for Arizona urban areas. When I protested to McCain that the project had enjoyed bipartisan support for nearly 50 years, from conservative Barry Goldwater to liberal Morris Udall, McCain retorted: “I’m duty bound to embarrass a Democrat whenever I can.”

  • Connections - Geocaching

    The Fail Chicken

    This is what happens when Facebook’s “Superpoke!” application doesn’t work right: That’s right, you get the Fail Chicken. I can be reached on Facebook as Ginny Hussein Gibbs, and I’ll throw a chicken, Obama, or some other wacky thing at you if you like. Hope you don’t encounter the Fail Chicken.

  • The Life of Riley - Today

    Lazy Saturday Snooze

    Purrrrrrrrrr… UPDATE: GRRR! Uploading a photo direct from my iPhone via the WP plugin strips out some but not all angle brackets, breaking the img tags. Sending a photo to Flickr via email, which re-directs to the blog with pre-formatted div tags, also strips angle brackets. Thirdly, using a Firefox plugin called ScribeFire to blog from my desktop computer also strips angle brackets. Only posting from the HTML editor screen within the main WP installation results in SUCCEED. The other third-party applications for sending posts with photos results in various flavors of FAIL.

  • The Life of Riley - Today

    Lazy Saturday Snooze

    Purrrrrrrrrr… UPDATE: GRRR! Uploading a photo direct from my iPhone via the WP plugin strips out some but not all angle brackets, breaking the img tags. Sending a photo to Flickr via email, which re-directs to the blog with pre-formatted div tags, also strips angle brackets. Thirdly, using a Firefox plugin called ScribeFire to blog from my desktop computer also strips angle brackets. Only posting from the HTML editor screen within the main WP installation results in SUCCEED. The other third-party applications for sending posts with photos results in various flavors of FAIL.

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    XML-RPC errors in WordPress from ScribeFire

    What’s New in ScribeFire 3.0.1? – ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging The following changes were made to ScribeFire between versions 3.0 and 3.0.1. Bug Fixes * Added detection of disabled XML-RPC in WordPress. This should fix many of the “Invalid username/password” errors users have been experiencing. * Fixed bug that causing ScribeFire to ignore line-breaks in preview mode * Fixed bug when managing ads in tab or window mode * Fixed bug with editor background in certain themes * Fixed bug with incorrect earnings amount * Updated ScribeFire to show a “What’s New in this version” page after upgrading instead…

  • Politics, Schmolitics

    Barack Obama Bumper Stickers: Illinois Sticker Is Lame

    Barack Obama Bumper Stickers Cool idea, but the Illinois sticker is a graphic with Obama and Biden, with a background shot of the funny red state Capitol rotunda. Where’s Lincoln? Where’s the Chicago skyline, the fertile downstate fields, or a clever recasting of the state flag? It has a rampant eagle, a Federal shield, and a really pretty golden sunburst. Can’t someone do a mix with the “O” logo, please? Because until then, I’m from Hawaii, my “maybe someday” spiritual home. The sticker says “Obama Ohana.” As everybody knows, “ohana” means “family.” Via BoingBoing