Jim Rittenhouse's semidaily journal of news, commentary and reports
He’s expressing his rather strong opinions on how the Vancouver Olympics are a money pit in a downturn period, cutting off funding for other public things in favour of high-end expense for the Games. (NSFW re strong language)
The governments of Mali and Algeria are teaming up to smush a local Al Qaeda spinoff in the western Sahara. Of course, Algeria has been sponsoring Polisario in the Western Sahara for decades, but *that’s* the terrorists that they like. The endless ethnic nationalist guerilla war against the central Burmese government goes on, as noted [...]
…to Veronica! For shame…
I know, this is coming out a bit late. Here’s a little Wild West Rorschach to keep you happy. My position on the movie is influenced by the fact that I’ve been a comics reader ever since I was five or so, when my 50 cent allowance paid for four comic books weekly. And I [...]
Heh. Heh. Heh.
….because I sure have. Not for a while, though. Thank goodness – I’ve been out of school for over 25 years.
Miep Gies, the last of the group who hid Anne Frank from the Nazis, turns 100 today (hat tip to aisb23). Weekend news anchors at a local TV station have a ritual they do during a commercial break – get up and DANCE! (h/t andrewducker) Jabba and other beach huts on the Lincolnshire (UK) coast [...]
A new superhero comic with handknitters in mind, containing a pattern in each issue.
Rorschach from THE WATCHMEN at Eustace Tilley; my favorite, but I’m a huge WATCHMEN fan.
Black mutant squirrels are taking over Britain, comic book denizens are aging, setting sheep on fire when you’re drunk will cause extra problems when they turn out to be people, and kids stealing parental credit cards and ordering up hookers – to play X-box games with them in hotel rooms.
I have been working my buttsky off with The Basement this weekend; dumping out ten-plus boxes of books, tons of magazines and whatnot. And scanning and dumping tons of papers, and working my butt off on the household finances. Dale Cozort, the present co-OE of POINT OF DIVERGENCE, came over to riffle through the dumped [...]
Brrrrrrr.
Love what you’ve done with your hair and the outfit. Is that a Cuban cigar?