Rance pops up after a long, no doubt busy silence to offer a little more in the “piss ‘n vinegar” line. I’m pretty sure that whatever he’s doing in politics just now, it’s not just “diddling.” And yeah, if he was working for the other side I probably wouldn’t read him as much. It’s easier to hang out with people you mostly agree with than otherwise. Never liked that word “diddling”, by the way. It has unpleasant assocations for me. But it’s nice that Rance took the time to vent, no matter the subject. I’m starting to think there’s a…

On the subject of “the war on terror” and how our country seems bent on mindless revenge, Tim Bishop had this to say: The difficulty of dealing with terrorism is that all successful strategies are long-term, and they involve penetration of the terrorist network, the intelligent and ruthless application of force against a very small group of people, the cadre of the terrorists, and ameliorating the grievances of the people that the terrorists spring from, so as to separate the two (emphasis mine – Blogula Rasa). This takes a lot of patience, a lot of intelligence work, and the willingness…

Sars, a big shot at TWOP and the person behind Tomato Nation and other ventures is looking for Don, a “disaster buddy” she met the morning of September 11th in New York. He helped her get through the first hours and is “everything good and friendly about the world.” Yes, that September 11th. His birthday is today, he lives in or near Jersey City, he’s African-American and probably in his mid-thirties, She’d like to thank him for hanging out with her tthat day and helping her keep it together. And maybe get him a nice cold one to help him…

What’s all the fuss about blogging? Sometimes they record the really important shit in a person’s life and worldview, rather than just the trivial ephemera. My stuff is in the latter category – ginmar‘s, on the other hand, is definitely the former. I can see snapping in this heat, how having to be out in it would sap you of all your energy, how pushing someone in this weather would make them weak. And yet the IPs we saw were pleasant, if relaxed, while the INGs looked like they were trying to make the best of it. They toss up…

ginmar wonders if her service in Iraq for this country matters, if the people in her life at home can’t be bothered to take care of things for her and keep her pets safe while she’s off getting shot at in a hot distant country in a post titled ” O. Henry and me.” Would someone please publish her blog as a book? Please? It matters.

Rance is back for a quick one, and sounding a bit anxious about the next step: how to keep blogging without getting bogged down with hundreds of comments per post. He wants to preserve the community that’s sprung up; dang me if he isn’t surprised and touched that there is one. I commented that David could set up a mailing list, but that other community members (hee! that’s us!) might prefer something more like a discussion forum or board, or find some other way to moderate comments so as to take the load off the AS. Of course, I still…

Yeah, kind of a depressing item from a disgruntled Canadian journalist who got stuck with the “Who Is Rance” beat. The fun of Rance was always in reading Rance’s writing, not in reading words from people who used to read Rance. Yadda yadda blah blah meow meow… hey!! Is that a cut? That’s a cut! Oooh, the ll’il impertinence! But… he does have a point. I guess. And so the online whirligig slowly revolving to an end, in spite of the promises of the Administrative Staff that Rance his own bad self will be posting in a few days. Sure,…

Most developers are morons, and the rest are assholes. I have at various times counted myself in both groups, so I can say this with the utmost confidence. I enjoyed reading this earlier today, but David might enjoy it even more.

If you haven’t read A View from A Broad yet, you should. From the beginning. It’s that good, and that compelling, and all that a blog can be. Everyone, from either side of the political aisle, should read it. I’ve been thinking about the huge waste of time it is for our country to be politically polarized. I think the Religious Right has hijacked the Republican Party. Or maybe we’re actually in a three-party system now (a political threeway: very complicated relations between bedfellows). Which would mean we have the Democratic Party (note: it’s not the Democrat Party, you mokes)…

The United States is to place tariffs on shrimp imports from Brazil and India in an attempt to tackle cut-price fish being dumped on the market. If my suspicion is correct, Rance ran off from the pressures of slebrity and bloggy godhead and got a job working on a shrimp boat. If that’s so, his paycheck is safe enough for now… unless he ran off to either the Caribbean or the Indian Ocean. If that’s the case, he’s boned. Better re-think the whole “no more slebrity for me” thing. Really, this is just an excuse to open some “Where the…