Came across this on George W. Bush, Will You Please Go Now?!

"Isn't that the ultimate homeland security? To defend the sanctity of marriage?" ? Rick Santorum

Oh... my... god. Santorum is equating gay marriage with a terrorist attack.

What an offense to the all the real victims of terror.

He's disgracing the memory of those killed on 9/11. He's demeaning anyone who puts his or her life on the line for homeland security -- hey, he's saying that he's doing the "ultimate" in homeland security by supporting the amendment; he's doing more than a soldier who fights and dies.

Top 5 hits for "hot John on John action" on.. 1. All Day Permanent Red 2. Harrison Brace's Radio Sandbox 3. All Day Permanent Red 4. All Day Permanent Red 5. All Day Permanent Red  7/19/2004; 11:22:32 AM.

Update: er, well, sort of.

A number of people have already written on the "social" network that blogs have with each other. In the good old Marxist tradition, it's the blogs themselves that, increasingly, have the social relation (though that I do not think that this is a condemnation of blogs.)

To the degree that the claim is true about the "sociability" of blogs, design (to state the obvious) takes on a role akin to personal appearance. Not to overstate the case, but I think that accounts for the weirdness people feel when redesigning blogs, or when visited a blog they know that has been redesigned.

I was so busy playing around with design that I didn't see this. But, in the name of all things holy, what bastards:

A church's plan for an old-fashioned book-burning has been thwarted by city and county fire codes.

Another reason to love firefighters. And what weirdness to have a reverse Fahrenheit 451 while Fahrenheit 9/11 is in theaters.

Caught a segment on Fresh Air today, an interview with Henkrik Hertzberg, who writes for The New Yorker and was a  speechwriter for Jimmy Carter's. He was commenting about the proposal to develop plans to postpone the election and remarked that we are becoming more like... Peru was it?

The "standard model" of the lit crit take on Latin American magical realism is that it's a very realist response to absurd political circumstances (such as the denial of the massacre of workers at the banana company in One Hundred Years of Solitude -- which was based on a real event.)

Seems we are becoming a country that can genuinely produce magical realist novels.

In case you're wondering, here are the changes since the design, er, "premiered" (keep in mind I'm not claiming credit. I stole ideas for it from a couple of places.)

• Changed the background color to a deeper red.
• Changed the links so that they are all red (previously the visited links were gray.)
• Changed the body of blog from an absolute width in pixels to a percentage of the browser window.
• Added a few pixels to the width of the "masthead" (side panel)
• Rearranged various parts of the masthead.

I still need to work on the dates and maybe the way the posts themselves are displayed.

All of these charges, I have no doubt, will contribute to getting Shrub out of the White House.

So now that Cindy and Michelle are both converted to FireFox, it's... time to start a club?

Tell me -- honestly -- what's the most browser tabs you've had open at the same time? I just closed the browser and it informed me that I had 29 tabs open. That's just embarrassing.

I love the web developer extension. Makes it that much easier to steal -- I mean -- see how other people have implemented things.

So, what do you think? Like this design better or the dark one?

I'm a bit inclined to back to the dark design.

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