Another Iowahawk Tour de Force

Reductio ad Absurdum at its best. Watch out for those Muslims, oops, I mean Martians!

Royal Skivvy Check

Via Drudge.

Unsuccessful stifling of Irish ancestral giggling ensues...

Join Iowahawk's Legion of Dumb

and meet cute girls. Heh.

Hey, someone posted a comment! um, but, er...

Today I noticed that someone actually posted a comment on my blog. However, there are several problems with the comment that make me want to discount it as an actual contribution to my bloggitude.

The comment was very long. It was a reasonably well-written (grammatically) MoveOn.org talking points tirade. This makes me think that the poster just got my URL from someplace that identifies me as a Conservative without having had to read my blog. I also think this tirade must have been posted to other blogs on that list.

The clincher is that the comment was posted to my Dilbert Blog post and NOT to any political post that would have been more relevant.

Oh well, the waiting continues...

The Dilbert Blog

I may be way behind the curve on this one, but I just got my copy of the DNRC Newsletter #61. Scott Adams, the cartoonist behind the Dilbert strip, has started his own blog. In the spirit of recent helpful how-tos, here is Scott on blogging:

When I see news stories about people all over the world who are experiencing hardships, I worry about them, and I rack my brain wondering how I can make a difference. So I decided to start my own blog. That way I won't have time to think about other people.

People who are trying to decide whether to create a blog or not go through a thought process much like this:

1. The world sure needs more of ME.
2. Maybe I'll shout more often so that people nearby can experience the joy of knowing my thoughts.
3. No, wait, shouting looks too crazy.
4. I know - I'll write down my daily thoughts and badger people to read them.
5. If only there was a description for this process that doesn't involve the words egomaniac or unnecessary.
6. What? It's called a blog? I'm there!

The blogger's philosophy goes something like this:

Everything that I think about is more fascinating than the crap in your head.

The beauty of blogging, as compared to writing a book, is that no editor will be interfering with my random spelling and grammar, my complete disregard for the facts, and my wandering sentences that seem to go on and on and never end so that you feel like you need to take a breath and clear your head before you can even consider making it to the end of the sentence that probably didn't need to be written anyhoo.

If that doesn't inspire you to read my blog, I don't know what will. You can find the Dilbert Blog at

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/

I oppose the Miers nomination.

I am not an elite, even though I do sometimes blog in my pajamas. I was very disappointed that the President threw off the veil of conservatism that he had been wearing for the last six years, pretending to be more in touch with the mainstream of American Conservatism than his father was. I'm still glad that he's prosecuting the GWOT. But I am STILL unhappy with his attitude on illegal immigration, his public lack of perception of the threat from Islam, and his reluctance to stand up to the liberals. He'd rather stand up to the conservatives and call us all elite snobs who don't trust Harriet Miers to be a good conservative. I am not an elite, I am not a snob, I cannot hold a candle to Harriet Miers when it comes to the law. But I know an opportunity missed/botched/squandered/lost when I see one. I oppose the Miers nomination. I sincerely hope she withdraws. I sincerely hope that the Senate doesn't have to reject her, for the further damage that would do to the President. But if she doesn't withdraw, I sincerely hope the Senate does reject her, so that Mr. Bush will have a second chance to fulfill his promise.