Thoughts on a boring Sunday afternoon

We’re iced-in and I’m recovering from the flu.  Yesterday I spent 18 hours in bed and that’s no fun.  Today, things are a little slow around the Decrepit household.  How slow?  This slow: the most interesting thing going on in the house right now is that my son is boiling a deer jawbone that he found in the woods.

And after it dries, he’ll lacquer it and give it to a friend for Christmas.  Really,  I don’t know the reason; it’s way too small for slaying Philistines.

In other news, I want one of these Aptera cars.  I mean, sure it’s cool that it’s all environmentally futuristic and all that, but it looks like a freakin’ UFO!  How cool is that?!

Over on Effect Measure, Revere has the smackdown on Mitt Romney pretending to be Kennedy.  Short version: “My religion is no more ridiculous than yours as long as you have one.”  If you don’t happen to have a religion, though, then the hell with ya’.  But there’s more, including Huckabee’s Chuck Norris endorsement and a bit more of Chuck Norris trying to wedge the bible into our schools.  And a long quote from the original Jack Kennedy.

At Dispatches From The Culture Wars, Ed reminds us: if you’re going to misappropriate public funds in the service of religion, make sure it’s the right religion.

Finally, if you’re a little fuzzy about “Wiki” check out this clever 5-minute video: “How To Wiki”. 

I can think of a lot of institutional uses for that.  Policy processes, for one.  Instead of a series of meetings poorly connected by emails, do the whole thing on a Wiki platform.

1. Wishing you a swift recovery, DOF.  And while you’re at it get me one of them there Aptivas.  Whatever.

   Posted by EdK  on  12/10/07  at  10:59 PM

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I tried to figure out the Creative Commons and Wikimedia stuff but it was like doing your taxes in another language. Short version: it's OK if you copy my stuff as long as you give attribution and you're willing to share what you make of it with others. Here's the little logo:

This work by George Wiman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.