Vote! And Other Mundane Ramblings...

Ah…so it’s come to this? Advertisements and testimonials on this blog? Well, sure! There have always been testimonials on this blog! If and when I find a good thing, be it an article, editorial, advertisements to like/avoid, or various and sundry other good things, don’t I tell you? So when I encourage you to get over to the 2006 Weblog Awards site and vote…it’s only natural. Two of my daily reads are finalists: Lex and Lileks. Lex needs your help, as you can see. Mr. Lileks, on the other hand, has a huge lead in his category, as of this hour. But only until the moonbats find out there’s an election going on, at which time they’ll mobilize the dead, bring out the absentee and provisional ballots, and whine about how the poor were disenfranchised by the “digital divide” when Greenwald loses. But as for now? They’re a little bit slow on the uptake, ya know.

Vote early, vote often daily!

I’m oh-so-tempted to weigh in on the Iraq Study Group’s report…but I won’t. Not yet, anyway. Mssrs Baker and Hamilton have been busy as all get out, making all the rounds. I saw them on C-SPAN testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, saw them on PBS’ The News Hour, saw them on Special Report w/Brit Hume…yadda, yadda. And that was just on Wednesday. Other ISG members are making the rounds, too, e.g., I saw Sandra O’Connor and Vernon Jordan on The News Hour last evening. This whole ISG thing is getting one of the hardest “pushes” I’ve seen in a long, long time. Talk about pressure on the administration! Poor Tony Snow is beginning to look a bit “aged,” doncha think? (video at the link)

Very few people seem to remember the Joint Chiefs have a similar report coming, as does the National Security establishment. I’m thinking reasonable and rational folks will wait until all the evidence is in before pontificating. Reason and rationality are in short supply these days, however.

Here’s another one of those spiffy quiz thingies, courtesy of Mike:

What American accent do you have?

Umm…I beg to differ, and I’m pretty sure SN1 and SN2 will back me up on this. Some of my usage is Suthern, ma’am, but accent? Not frickin’ hardly! The code provided by the quiz site to display your results is pretty useless (the bars don’t get filled), other than providing a link to the quiz. So I cut and pasted the graphic results from the quiz, just to show what they say are my linguistic characteristics. Which, I suppose, all goes to prove that determining an accent using questions about how one pronounces certain words is…uh…useless. YMMV, of course.

It was pretty danged cold here at El Casa Móvil De Pennington yesterday. Our high was only 39 vs an average high of 53 for the date. And it was windy, as usual, making it seem quite a bit cooler than it actually was. Today is supposed to be a bit better: the forecasted high is 52. We’re colder, earlier this year. So much for global warming climate change. But, as always…it could be worse, and it is worse in some of my old stomping grounds, like Detroit, Williston, ND, and Rochester. With snow!

Today’s Pic: Another Prague pic, but I doubt if Lou will paint this one! Just a billboard that caught my eye whilst I was strolling about the city. Those Euro-weenies certainly have a different sort of take on advertising, eh? And I like it… June, 1999.