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What’d I say? Emphasis mine, of course.
I’m not going to repeat the name until it’s confirmed but Carl Cameron’s interviewing a kid on Fox who says the suspect is a friend of the family and that the guy’s been having mental problems lately, allegedly complaining that the government is planting bugs in his head.
And abducted […]

“Is the youtube debate the worst thing to happen to American political discourse since the invention of the one-minute soundbyte?”
Yes. Worse, idiots like Youtube’s Commisar for Politics and News are allowed to vote.

Just saw this:
A man claiming to have a bomb walked in to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign offices Friday and took hostages, police and witnesses said.
The man had what appeared to be a bomb strapped to himself, said Bill Shaheen, a top Clinton state campaign official. He took two hostages, both volunteers, and released others, Shaheen […]

Duncan Hunter wrote a little note to Hillary:
Regarding the “plant”, retired Brig. Gen. Keith H. Kerr, that you sent to ask me the question at the CNN-YouTube debate last night in Florida …
Send more!!!
Merry Christmas,
Duncan Hunter
And you wonder why I refuse to watch debates? The Democrats are scared to death of anything but softball questions, […]

About that stats bootcamp. I will have to write an Excel (and Access) bootcamp first, and there’s a problem: Office 2007 has a radically different user interface than all previous versions (yeah, I know all about the Excel 2007 bugs, but I really love the interface — and Microsoft has finally added averageif(), after all […]

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I’m going to be reorganizing and expanding my stats for social sciences pages. The pages I have posted were written for people who needed to understand stats in journal articles, but did not give the necessary information to use stats in their own research. So I’m going to be rewriting them, with how to do […]

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We’re driving back tomorrow, so there is a big list of undones we need to do, somehow. So maybe more later, maybe not.

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Why God created cattle.

Biscuits and gravy at Wee Willie’s!

I’m still asleep, but there’s an unsecured network, so I’m logged in. I don’t normally hijack other people’s connections, but when the advertised wi-fi isn’t …

I’ve noticed these differences before, of course, but I wanted to check again, to make sure I wasn’t imagining anything. But you can tell what state you’re in, almost from the minute you cross the state line, by looking at the surroundings — rather, the way people have settled.
Pennsylvania is mostly rural, although it’s sparsely […]

You can view the entire collection (when I’m done taking pics and uploading them) by clicking the pic below. You can see the full-size photos I’m posting here by clicking on them.

We’re staying right across from Steak and Shake — thank God! This pic is taken from the parking lot right outside the motel. You […]

I’m in the room, typing this up in notepad. No connectivity. After I’m sufficiently awake, I’ll shower, then head down to the dining room to post.
First, Minnie. She looked and acted fine, except that there was blood in her urine. The vet prescribed an antibiotic, but we’ll have our vet back in Centre County see […]

I seem to have left my camera at somebody’s house, so I can’t post pictures from yesterday.
Changed rooms, and yes, the TV works. The continental breakfast has a purpose, after all: We can connect to the lobby wi-fi here in the dining room. So here I am.
Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. We went to […]

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The traffic was godawful all the way here. The drive took ten-and-a-half hours (we’ve made it in just under eight). But at four o’clock, everything changed. Cornfields! Basketballs on signs! Purdue and IU license plates! Mud-splattered pickups and tractors! American flag and GOP bumperstickers! We must be in (clicky for biggy) . . .

Yup, cross […]

Before I shut down, finish packing, and head out, the Carnival of Education will be at NYC Educator when it gets posted — at a decent hour, while I’m on the road. And speaking of NYC Educator, he and I were having a conversation about trolls. He’s been getting a lot of them lately, and […]

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We’ll be on the road all day. I doubt that I’ll log in again until tomorrow morning, but we’ll see.

Hat tip to Say Uncle for the link to Sebastian (I read blogs in alphabetical order — I would have gotten to Sebastian next, but credit where it’s due): All three of Fast Eddie’s anti-gun bill went down in flames.
Guess you didn’t bang on that lectern hard enough, eh, Eddie? And speaking of, he says:
Don’t […]

The following general scenario is one of the most common during office hours:
“What can I do for extra credit?”
“Other than the online quizzes, nothing. Here, let me pull you up in the gradebook. Have you done the online quizzes?”
“Every one!”
I pull up the student’s record in the gradebook and look.
“You understand what the online quizzes […]

Ooooo, let’s fight global warming by drinking rat’s milk!

Note: I have never heard of this Heather Mills bimbo, but she has a nice SUV.

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Like I said, the electrical system has been going on the blitz for some time now, and today, I took it in to the dealership. Guess what? Not only did the windows work, but for the first time in six months, the rear wiper worked.

Hat tip to Freeborn John for this:
A man caught trying to have sex with his bicycle has been sentenced to three years on probation.
So does this give new meaning to “bisexual”? And how long will it be before the, er, new “bisexuals” have their own flag, and are demanding to be included in hate crimes […]

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Research shows!

The electrical system in my Explorer has been gradually decaying. The back wiper hasn’t worked for months, but I only consider that to be a small problem. Yesterday while we were at Scott’s Farm eating those roast pork sandwiches with horseradish, the windows stopped working.
The snow is still pouring down, and my window is down.
We […]

A Constitutional amendment I would support (there are very few of those).

I’ve read this before, but I don’t think I’ve ever linked to it. Why the gun is civilization.

Mark Steyn on Thanksgiving.

I just took this picture about a half hour ago, looking out the front door. It’s still pouring down.
Click to biggify.

Guess what was just on? In case you forgot how much I hated it, here’s what I had to say after paying to see it in the theater.
Let me say a couple of things before I begin. I don’t expect historical accuracy from movies, unless a movie claims to be historical, or unless something is […]

We did everything except Beowulf. There was no way to make the 12:00 show, so we’re going at 2:20.
I just got a Happy Thanksgiving call from Karl Rove. Anyway.
Remember this stand from the Grange Fair?

We drove up to Scott’s Farm and had a couple of those pork sandwiches for lunch. Mmmmm, good! Pork and […]

Is there some reason most of the spam I get in my email queue is in German?
Off to run errands. Back this afternoon after Beowulf.

Beowulf, of course.
Wednesday we’re driving to Indiana for Thanksgiving (we’ll be returning the following Wednesday). I’m way past due for an oil change, so that has to happen today. We’ve been stocking up on jars of preserves at the Amish farmers market every week for gifts (the Thanksgiving trip has to double as a Christmas […]