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"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."
Labels: 2008 presidential campaign, McCain-Palin 2008, mocking others, Sarah
posted at 11:00 AM
A 2004 paper authored by Russell Link, an urban wildlife biologist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), seconds Convy's notion. "In Washington," Link writes, "these intelligent and adaptable animals now manage to occupy almost every conceivable habitat type, from open ranch country to densely forested areas to downtown waterfront."Now, I could be wrong, but I doubt coyotes are picky eaters. They are not sitting around nibbling buttered scones and tut-tutting that these churlish cat-things are apt to put a dent in the population of delicious rabbits. I'm sure the coyotes are killing the cats in order to eat the cats [cue Schwarzenegger Terminator voice: "I would."]. It's also a rather poor evolutionary strategy for predators to pick fights with other predators in order to keep them from competing. That's like getting in a knife fight with the next person in the interview line at Wal-Mart: not worth it from a risk or energy-expenditure perspective—just try to do a little better in the interview. Also, I'm confident that cats are not "thought of by coyotes as a competitor for prey." Do you really think a coyote has the slightest idea of what a cat does or doesn't do vis-à-vis the coyote's prey (besides simply being it)? It seems unlikely. Plainly, the benefit package at the Department of Fish and Wildlife is not attracting the cream of our biology graduates.
And occasionally, they like to eat pussy.
"Cats are thought of by coyotes as a competitor for prey," says Link. "A coyote is going to eliminate that competition."
Labels: local Seattle media, mocking others, pets, things that seem stupid to MWR (abridged version)
posted at 9:35 PM
Labels: mocking others, pets, things that seem stupid to MWR (abridged version)
posted at 1:34 AM
hey bill,
Yes i'm aware the camera must be perfectly level for straight horizons :) but i'm just wondering how much i can angle my camera down (so the horizon will be above halfway) with the lense shifted BEFORE that starts taking place, get me?
Labels: film cameras, mocking others, photography
posted at 4:32 PM
Labels: mocking others
posted at 10:03 PM
"Say, let's nickname our state after some plant no one's ever heard of, or a flying cockroach, and let's hold our party primaries on two different days and fly this racist flag at our capitol!"
Labels: 2008 presidential campaign, mocking others, things that seem stupid to MWR (abridged version)
posted at 6:12 PM
The Seattle Public Library is having a popularity problem. Thanks to its "Libraries for All" building expansion program and an unprecedented increase in use of the library's online catalog, the number of holds — reservations — placed on books and other library materials has tripled, from about 1.01 million in 1998, when voters approved "Libraries for All," to 3.35 million in 2006 . . .I'm not sure which is most amazing:
. . . And it's not just books: Jeff Sconyers, a movie buff and general counsel at Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center, recalls waiting up to a year for "Clerks," an indie movie. He waited so long the hold expired. "The library has an archival capacity, too. I count on them to have a collection that's more than the top 10," he said. - Seattle Times, November 6, 2007
Labels: mocking others
posted at 11:49 PM
“The study really adds to the little we know about ["friends with benefits"] relationships,” said Paul Mongeau, a professor of communications at Arizona State University who was not involved in the research. “One of the most interesting things I get from it,” he said, “is this sense that people in these relationships are afraid to develop feelings for the other person, because those feelings might be unreciprocated.” . . .
. . . “We found,” Dr. Levine said, “that people got into these relationships because they didn’t want commitment. It was perceived as a safe relationship, at least at first. But also that there was this growing fear that the one person would become more attracted than the other.” - New York Times, October 2, 2007
Labels: mocking others
posted at 7:25 AM
Labels: I know . . . hipsters are boring, if I could stand it . . . I wouldn't be blogging about it, mocking others, things that seem stupid to MWR (abridged version)
posted at 10:59 AM
Labels: I know . . . hipsters are boring, mocking others, sartorial musings
posted at 3:06 PM
If you know very much about any topics—science, medicine, transportation, law etc.—you quickly realize that newspapers and other forms of journalism are filled with complete junk. Most articles are written by a naive reporter who talked to two people, misunderstood much of what he heard, and writes in an authoritative manor. - Letter, Salon.com, September 7, 2007
Labels: irony, mocking others
posted at 7:54 AM
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 — With the Democratic-led Congress poised to measure progress in Iraq by focusing on the central government’s failure to perform, President Bush is proposing a new gauge, by focusing on new American alliances with the tribes and local groups that Washington once feared would tear the country apart. - New York Times, September 5, 2007If Iraq were a cancer patient, oncologist Bush would be focusing on cardiovascular health.
Labels: mocking others, things that seem stupid to MWR (abridged version)
posted at 8:43 AM
It was John G. Roberts Jr., now the chief justice of the United States, who suggested Miers to Bush as a possible Supreme Court justice, according to the book [Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush by Robert Draper]. - Washington Post, September 3, 2007
Labels: mocking others
posted at 12:57 AM
Mandatory Preadmission Education
Effective June 1, 2006, Bar applicants who have passed the bar exam, or who qualify for admission without passing the bar exam, must complete an approved four-hour Preadmission Education Program. This course should not be completed until you have successfully passed the bar exam and will not count if you complete it before then. You can meet this requirement by attending a live program, if offered in your local area, or by watching the video available on the Preadmission Education website. [LINK]
Labels: mocking others, things that seem stupid to MWR (abridged version)
posted at 5:36 PM
Labels: mocking others, religion
posted at 7:54 AM
Seriously, though, if this is your best idea for a Seattle pig, why even bother?Labels: mocking others, things that seem stupid to MWR (abridged version)
posted at 12:55 AM
Security experts say even if these weren't dry runs for terrorist attacks, the good news is that this time the system worked: TSA officials did find the suspicious items. - ABC News reporter, July 25, 2007This is like catching a few trout and then concluding that the river is out of trout . . . when the real danger is probably salmon or crayfish or periwinkles.
Labels: mocking others, MWR: weaver of metaphor, things that seem stupid to MWR (abridged version)
posted at 5:49 PM
Labels: mocking others
posted at 4:15 PM
You may like to drive your non-creepy, loving-guy-car around on dusty back roads or go camping sometimes . . . . You are not creepy in any way . . . . You think men should cultivate sexiness, but you aren't attracted to men.
Labels: mocking others
posted at 12:56 PM
In 2005, the Guitar Hero video game arrived to help bridge the gap between fantasy and reality. Featuring a controller shaped like a guitar, only about one-third the size, the game lets players rock along to classics by the likes of the Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Hit the button on the guitar neck that corresponds to the note flashing by on the screen and the song continues to play perfectly; hit the wrong one, and you hear a flub. The game is both devilishly addictive and wildly successful . . . - Salon, July 6, 2007Wow, that just sounds really, really stupid. I'd assumed this game offered some promise of learning skills that would transfer to some activity like . . . oh, I don't know . . . PLAYING THE GUITAR. But instead it sounds like sort of a slacker version of Dance Dance Revolution. Or a real-time version of Simon.
Labels: mocking others, things that seem stupid to MWR (abridged version)
posted at 11:24 AM
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