So I had a post partly written where I disagreed with this Media Matters article backing up Franken on his racism charge against Horowitz. Actually reading his article on reparations, he may not be outright racist, but the points he makes are so close to the line, I can’t really blame anyone for thinking him [...]

I just packaged a box for mailing without using a single piece of new tape. Or writing an address.
I’m not sure how much of an accomplishment that is, but I’m proud of myself.

I’m getting hammered with comment spam again. A lot of it is caught by the spam word list and Blacklist, but that doesn’t really help, considering I have to go through and delete it anyway. So, I’m now trying this hack, which changes the wp-comments-post.php name. Hopefully that works.

Court Rejects Appeal of Gay Marriage Law
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to the only state that allows gay marriages, declining to hear an appeal aimed at overturning the Massachusetts law that prompted a national debate on the legality and morality of same-sex unions.
The decision ended the legal fight over a [...]

From the respected scholars at Free Republic [via Pharyngula], we have have this quote:
the Evolutionist religionists keep changing the theory as science keeps proving it wrong
No need for comment; just sit back and marvel at its genius.

I’m back, after surviving masses of food and a lack of internet (which was my fault, sadly) over break. The comment spammers seem to have had a lot of fun while I was gone.

I will be driving home for most of the day today, so no posting, and probably very little the rest of the weekend. Maybe during the terrible football games on Thursday.

Powell: U.S. Open to Eventually Restoring Ties with Iran
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) signaled on Tuesday Washington was open to one day re-establishing diplomatic ties with Iran after the countries held their most sustained, high-level contact in years.
Powell, who spoke with his Iranian counterpart on [...]

Over at &c. Noam Scheiber is discussing the odd exit polling from the election and disagrees with Mark Blumenthal’s suggestion that Republicans are less likely to talk to exit pollsters because they hate the media more than Democrats:
One problem I see with his theory: As evidence, Blumenthal cites polls showing Republicans more inclined to believe [...]

I just burned most of the 9/11 Commission Report audio book onto CD. 14 CDs, due to the fact that iTunes will only burn individual tracks over multiple discs. Leaving me with two CDs with under 5 minutes of content. Lovely. Anyway, that’s my entertainment for the ride home on Wednesday. I’m sure it’ll be [...]