anacronyms

I tried Blogger’s comments. They’re nicely integrated, but they don’t allow people to post under any name they like, and they don’t allow dedicated links. So I disabled them again and restored Haloscan.
I’ve also doinked around with the link colour a bit. The dullish red that came with the template doesn’t show up well on [...]

Global WarmingThe sxKitten was emailing me about something she’d read. The topic was “global warming”.
I’m paraphrasing here: “With all the news about shrinking ice sheets, I can’t help but wonder if there isn’t something to it.”
Well, yes, there is something to it. The planet is warming up. I don’t think there is any serious doubt [...]

I am bad at titles
So, I’m into Chapter 13. More than 30,000 words have washed under the transom, and I still don’t have a title, nor even an inkling of one.
I’ve always been bad at picking titles. This is probably some form of pathology with a name and a syndrome and everything. If it isn’t, [...]

Further to my Stones/Beatles Theory of Everything:
Stones: James Joyce.Beatles: James Lileks.
Joyce is difficult to read, and his later stuff is pretty much impenetrable. His early stuff (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners) is superb. It’s Stonesy, though, full of seaminess and pettiness and the testosterone and bile that powers real life. [...]

Has anybody but me ever wondered about Hershey’s Kisses? They claim the name comes from the machine that makes them.
I’m betting it comes from somewhere else. To me, the candy looks like a partially solidified pantload. I’m thinking that the Candy Inventor Guys (probably somewhat akin to Software Developers) came up with the thing [...]

Morning
I’m a morning person. I’m up early, and productive.
It doesn’t take me long to wake up. I’m fully alert within a few seconds unless the alarm has gone off. Oddly, this is unusual. I almost always wake up before the alarm.
I’m in the market for an espresso machine. I plan to make cappuccino in [...]

Blogads
Blogads are occasionally bizarre. The one that’s currently at the top, just up there ^, is for modular jail housing.

Kaboom
The explosion of the ‘abuse scandal’ in the Bushie’s collective face is no surprise. When you create an atmosphere of hatred and ‘anything goes’, don’t be surprised when anything goes.
War has always been an ugly thing. The Geneva Convention is all well and good, but the truth is that it is broken all the time. [...]

More on IraqThere is a copy of the official report on the abuse scandal by Major General Taguba here.
It talks about a lot of things, and it is every bit as scathing as has been reported. However, I found one section that, I think, is quite revealing:
33. (S/NF) The various detention facilities operated [...]

Iraq, again
I was not surprised when the prison abuse scandal broke.
I have read accounts from Britons of Arabic ancestry (another here and here)who had the misfortune to be in Afghanistan. Having read these accounts, it isn’t in the least surprising that the reports and photographs from Iraq have surfaced.
It’s the photographs that have driven [...]