Bad Money

IT WORKS IN THEORY, BUT HOW ABOUT A LITTLE PRACTICE

2004-05-10T20:36:00.000-07:00

Rumor has it that Blogspot has comments now. We'll just see about that...

One more time, just to be sure

2003-11-30T19:29:00.000-08:00

If this works, I'm gonna party like it's 1999.

Testing for working permalinks

2003-11-30T19:28:00.000-08:00

If this doesn't work, I blame the Bartender.

2003-06-29T20:44:00.000-07:00

MOVIN' ON UP Bad Money's new home. Update your bookmarks. After a mere week of broken permalinks and disappearing comments, I'm moving to Radio UserLand. I've got the content moved over, and now I've just got to figure out how to get a links list up & maybe fix that ugly color scheme.

2003-06-28T04:37:00.000-07:00

IMAO SIGNPOST If you're over here from Frank J's place, the post you're looking for is July 26th, "Trying to Muster Polite Laughter". Also if anyone knows of a good, current resource for learning how to fix Blogspot permalink problems, I'd be interested... And yes, I'm already looking into the obvious answer - "get off Blogspot". LinktoComments('<$BlogItemNumber$>') ">Comment

2003-06-27T19:43:00.000-07:00

THAT'S NOT A KNIFE... THIS IS A KNIFE Or, in this case, a gun. I love the Australians. A bunch of prisoners, exiles & unwanteds who tamed a land and built a civilization revolving around opals and large cans of beer. Not to mention being the only country outside of the UK to really help the US put the smack dab on Saddam's ass. (Yes, I know Poland threw in a handful of special forces, but

2003-06-27T19:35:00.000-07:00

WITH THIS RING, TED BEDS FRED The Supremes killed sodomy laws recently. Good for them. I'm with the standard libertarian disclaimer that what two consenting adults etc, so I think it was the right move. But gay marriage? I'm not so with that. I have nothing against the concept. If a same-sex couple wants to have a ceremony that binds them with legal and economic ties, fine. Bind away. My

2003-06-27T18:40:00.000-07:00

TODAY'S GRAFFITI CURRENCY Shakespeare returns from his visit to the future with his astigmatism corrected and a bitchin' hairpiece, but still no clue on how to choose the proper color when buying Just For Men. LinktoComments('<$BlogItemNumber$>') ">Comment

2003-06-26T21:08:00.000-07:00

FOR THOSE OF YOU PLAYING ALONG AT HOME... Doc Weevil has everything you'd ever want to know about playing Iraqi Bastard Poker. LinktoComments('<$BlogItemNumber$>') ">Comment

2003-06-26T21:00:00.000-07:00

NOT A SMOKING GUN Silly boy, centrifuge parts are supposed to go under the gardenias. ANTHRAX goes under the rose bushes. Maybe the reason we haven't found the WMD is that they were hidden where no one would think to look, instead of being placed on a pedastal in the town square. LinktoComments('<$BlogItemNumber$>') ">Comment

2003-06-26T20:53:00.000-07:00

TODAY’S GRAFFITI CURRENCY A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. (with apologies to James Joyce) UPDATE: I wonder if he's any relation to these folks? LinktoComments('<$BlogItemNumber$>') ">Comment

2003-06-26T05:58:00.000-07:00

TRYING TO MUSTER POLITE LAUGHTER When you're trying to be funny, you need the right mix of truth and exaggeration. If it's all exaggeration, it's just a lie. If it's all truth, it's just a chemistry book. Over at People's Republic of Seabrook, there's a piece called "What Democrats are Really After". It's written by a liberal, as an attempt to mock a serious post on a conservative web site. The

2003-06-25T21:35:00.000-07:00

TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY... David over at Clubbeaux has a more of a "let's cut the crap" version of what the Supremes did on the Michigan law school case than I had here (June 24, The Joy of Quotas). Sure, it lacks my insightful brevity, but it makes up for it with venomously accurate poking. LinktoComments('<$BlogItemNumber$>') ">Comment

2003-06-25T21:01:00.000-07:00

TODAY’S GRAFFITI CURRENCY Yo quiero crystal meth. LinktoComments('<$BlogItemNumber$>') ">Comment

2003-06-25T20:27:00.000-07:00

In the comments to this post (June 21 Right! What's All This, Then), Scott asks how I go about acquiring my choice bits of community-based performance artwork. I'm not allowed to do transactions out of my own drawer. The bank has a policy on currency accountability that involves dual control, which means I have to get another teller to help me with the transaction. Typically, I'll take the

2003-06-25T20:10:00.000-07:00

In the comments to this post (the June 24th peace sign bill, if permalinks are broken), Corey asks why I call the bill pictures the "daily atrocity", since "atrocity" has some extremely negative connotations which tend to imply something on the order of sacrilege. Good question. Short answer: it seemed like a good idea at the time. I had to call it something, and I wanted it to be

2003-06-24T13:58:00.000-07:00

TODAY’S ATROCITY Trek Bicycle introduces radical new 4-spoke design. LinktoComments('<$BlogItemNumber$>') ">Comment

2003-06-24T13:53:00.000-07:00

THE JOY OF QUOTAS Steve has a nice piece on the Supreme Court's decision on quotas (the Michigan law school admissions case) that is informative without being overly legalistic in its explanation. The short & extremely oversimplified version: Good news: quotas with numbers are unconstitutional. Bad news: quotas without numbers are constitutional. Good news: someday quotas without numbers

2003-06-23T19:21:00.000-07:00

TODAY’S ATROCITY This bill has been dipped in: A) Coffee B) Tea C) A frosty chocolate milkshake D) Don’t ask, don’t tell LinktoComments('<$BlogItemNumber$>') ">Comment

2003-06-23T19:13:00.000-07:00

"YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" Frank J is right: pointing a Beretta at a kitten *is* funny! Be sure to check out the comments to maximize your chances of blowing beer out your nose & all over your monitor. Click the "Gay Bar" link at your own risk. The mental scars will be hard enough to repress, but getting that chorus out of your head... good luck. LinktoComments('<$BlogItemNumber$>') ">Comment

2003-06-23T19:05:00.000-07:00

SICK AND WRONG: TOGETHER AT LAST! The new & improved world of children's literature courtesy of Bob from Accounting LinktoComments('<$BlogItemNumber$>') ">Comment

2003-06-22T21:20:00.000-07:00

TODAY’S ATROCITY He’s not just for breakfast anymore. LinktoComments('<$BlogItemNumber$>') ">Comment

2003-06-22T17:01:00.000-07:00

TEN EASY PIECES My nephew recently sent me a link to a piece by Brian Riedl called Ten Common Myths About Taxes, Spending, and Budget Deficits. Not concise, but logical, accurate, & chock full of evidentiary goodness. Basically it points out 3 economic truths. First, There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch - TANSTAAFL (thank you, Mr. Heinlein, I love that word). If the government spends a

2003-06-22T16:57:00.000-07:00

IGNORANCE & BLISS Stephen muses on whether too much knowledge can be a bad thing. His example is a literature prof who spent so much time reading the "classics" that his knowledge of what makes literature great interferes with his enjoyment of light popular fiction. He compares this with a passage from Mark Twain, where he complains that acquiring a riverboat pilot's knowledge of the

2003-06-22T16:48:00.000-07:00

JUST MY TYPE My intial reaction when I saw the Targus keyboard for my Jornada pocket PC was similar to Luke's reaction upon first laying eyes on the Millenium Falcon - a snippy and condescening "What a piece of junk!" It's folded in quarters when it's closed, and when you open it, the 2 center keyboard sections are together, but the two side sections have about an inch gap. "Great," I grumbled,

2003-06-21T21:28:00.000-07:00

TODAY’S ATROCITY Yellow Submarine: The Director’s Cut: Ringo gets assimilated by the Blue Meanies. LinktoComments('<$BlogItemNumber$>') ">Comment

2003-06-21T19:24:00.000-07:00

RIGHT! WHAT’S ALL THIS, THEN? After working as a teller for a couple years, I actually started paying attention to all the paper that my fingers were flailing over. At first, my eyes were only caught by the out-of-the-ordinary bills, ones with blue or red Treasury seals, or interesting patterns to the serial numbers. I imagine most people get hooked on collecting paper money that way. But