Talking Points Memo reminds us that, historically, presidential candidates rarely pick the running mate that consensus opinion has concluded to be a likely contender.

This is one of those moments when you say, my god, he's right, how in the world did I not notice this before?

Now I'm wondering: does this mean that it will be Hillary after all, thought to be the least likely?

(No, I kid the democratic candidate. Talking Points is not saying that the least likely gets picked. Except, of course, in the case of Bush pere, when someone had actually said, while Bush debated, that Quayle was the most unimaginable VP choice.)

Robert's Virtual Soapbox relates a funny and disturbing bit of near-hysteria that resulted when a yellow (support-our-troupes) ribbon started disappearing every night from its tree (to be replaced, stolen again, etc., whipping the local community into a furor), but the culprit turned out to be...

I just picked Radio Userland Kick Start by Rogers Cadenhead (of Workbench). If it's as good as his blog, I have high hopes for it. I'm hoping to learn more about the guts of Radio and how to do interesting hacks with my blog. So bear with me if the page comes up as gibberish one day while I'm playing around with it.

Ok, it is a party and a holiday weekend, but I feel a sense of anxiety. What can I do today to lessen he chances of Bush's possible election (or the chances of his somehow being given the presidency again, for that matter)? There must be some way I can work that into drunken festivities.

There are a lot of complicated issues here, that can only be expressed in song.

After shilling a bit for FireFox, I have to admit that it's damn slow to load web pages, especially my own. In fact, it's damn slow loading my local radio pages. It seems to hold up while loading the python scripts from from my new comment host, The Python Community Server. These scripts aren't needed for my local radio pages, but they have to be executed because because they are in the main template. So I don't use FireFox if I won't to access localhost Radio.

FireFox is also slower loading my blog. Actually, it seems to be slower loading a lot of pages. And I'm on a DSL connection with a decently fast p4 computer, a gig of RAM, and a new GeForce video card, etc. Is browser redenreing speed a knon problem? You certainly wouldn't think so, given the new-universal praise you hear.  

Ah well, seems I'll just have to live is multi-browser pandemonium.

Going to my mother-in-law's 4th of July party today, a party that has been at least 6 months in the planning. Now that's 4th-of-July devotion! It should be a hoot. A whole host of hoots!

Right now, I'm hootifying myself, as I don't want to be out-hooted.

I'm so loopy in the morning. Like a 600-pound Chirago demon makin like Yma Sumac.

Enough with the OMWF references. I'm drowning in Buffy nostalgia, which may be unbecoming in a man with my responsibilities, such as my young kitten named Buffy that I must raise properly.