Funny Experience, Part Two On Friday before the wedding, I had to head out to Adelphia Cable to pay my bill before they sent some mustachioed goon named Guido to break my legs and steal my internet connection. Adelphia is on the other side of town, which is only about 5 minutes on a normal …
Archives for August 2002
This is off-color, but the
This is off-color, but the funniest thing my strange ranger best friend has ever said. He was a member of the wedding party for the wedding I went to on Saturday, and he proceeded to drink (by all accounts) all the champagne in the limo and then every glass at his table. After getting sufficiently …
Link Love All of these
Link Love All of these blogs are worth a look, and should now appear to the left in my permalinks: The Sabertooth Journal 3 Bruces In Exile (this permalink is WAY overdue- sorry guys) Cut on the Bias (which is merely overdue as a permalink) The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler (which is uber-mega-way overdue- and by the …
Just got my tickets to
Just got my tickets to Puerto Rico in December. Take that, Global Cooling. Or thank goodness for global warming. Or something.
Also priceless in the Fukuyama
Also priceless in the Fukuyama speech is the litany of hypocricy on the part of the Eurocrats: There are a number of areas where the Europeans have acted unilaterally in economic matters, and in ways that at times contravene the existing legal order. The EU resisted unfavourable decisions against them on bananas for nine years, …
Europeans in Our Midst? Francis
Europeans in Our Midst? Francis Fukuyama presented a speech that has been widely linked in the blogosphere. It was a balanced an interesting piece, but several parts stood out: Robert Kagan, in a brilliant recent article in Policy Review, (3) put the current difference between the United States and Europe as follows. The Europeans are …
No more posting until Sunday,
No more posting until Sunday, most likely. I am off to another wedding.