Is This The Best Footage Available?

Saddam Hussein goes down swinging.

Nothing to See Here. Move Along.

Apple investigates itself - and finds nothing wrong. What a surprise! And, as if by magic, Apple stock abruptly ends a week-long fire sale.

Earnings restated in a new SEC filing. This is interesting reading for those who like to read uninteresting stuff. Like me.

As an original owner of an original 128 Kb 1984 Macintosh and a guy who depends on the Mac OS for a great deal of my income, I must disclose that I am a bit biased toward Steve Jobs. Naturally, I was glad to see him beat his rare pancreatic cancer, and I'm glad he's staying out of jail.

Now we can get on to more important topics. Like when will the Adobe Creative Suite be released in a Universal Binary. Oh yeah! Bring on 2007!

They're Gassy!

The Seeds doing their one hit "Pushin' Too Hard." Can anyone identify this show?
Thanks to Steve from Utley for his tireless mining for garage gold on YouTube

What Would Pete Rozelle Do?

Dear NFL:

I am a white male, age 42, married, no kids, professional, self-employed, small-business owner with a decent income.

I watch football on TV, specifically NFL games and most specifically the Dallas Cowboys.

I purchase trucks, computers, razor blades, beer, salty snacks, pharmaceuticals, telecom services and just about everything else advertised during NFL broadcasts, except for joining the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines. I am part of a very desirable demographic for advertisers.

Tonight, I will not be exposed to any of your advertisers' product pitches because I will be listening to the Dallas Cowboys-Atlanta Falcons game on the radio. Or maybe not if there's something better on TV.

And it's all because you have chosen to hold me and the rest of my sought-after Men 18-54 advertising demographic up as a bargaining chip in your fight with Time-Warner Cable, my local provider.

Let's face facts: by choosing to be intractable with each other, both the NFL and Time-Warner have disrespected the audience. And the audience is your product that you sell to your advertisers. By prolonging this impasse, you are in effect attacking your future earnings.

Believe me, I'm plenty upset with Time-Warner, too, and I've let them know about it. But the NFL has the most at stake with your three year-old NFL Network. The NFL became the most popular, highest-rated televised sport in the USA by understanding the importance of reaching my demographic.

Do you really want to mess that up?

I would advise you to stop your pissing match, work this out right away, and seek a compromise. Your advertisers want me and my cohorts to buy their stuff.

Happy Chanuka,

El Brusco

The Dictator's Haberdasher

If you want to wear a hat like this, you've got to break a few eggs.

He's Running for President! And He's Hispanic! No, Really!

He's running! No, wait, he's not running...yet!

If we have to have politicians, I say that they should be New Mexico politicians.

Wouldn't he do better at the polls with a vowel at the end of his name, though? Señor Richardson-o, perhaps?

Yet Another AWESOME CNN Headline

I don't know what this story will be headlined by the time you see it but for most of the evening it has read:

High court takes 'Bong Hits for Jesus' case

That's actually the first URL I've seen with the identifier "scotus.bonghits" in it, now that you mention it.

Good to see Ken Starr back in action, though.

High court. Good one.