Reef (by tiffany bridge) heeeere fishy, fishy
IMG_0322 (by Tiffany Baxendell Bridge)
Extraordinarily grateful it will still be over a week before I have to go back to work.
It distresses me to see people who like to call themselves Jeffersonians and Constitutionalists exploiting fear of Muslims for short-term political gain. It distresses me to see so many Democrats so pusillanimous in standing up for the First Amendment—for its spirit as well as its letter. Permit me to add timorous and craven to the inventory.
The time will come when we will be optimists again, and embarrassed at ourselves once more.” You Don’t Say: Not stupid, just afraid - English grammar, language, usage and journalism blog by John E. McIntyre - baltimoresun.com
“And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.”
At such time as this particular work becomes available as a print, I will purchase it.
This is why plans for the mosque near Ground Zero should be allowed to proceed, if that’s what these Muslims want. We teach tolerance by being tolerant. We can’t insist that our freedom of speech allows us to draw cartoons or produce plays that Muslims find offensive and then demand that they be more sensitive to our feelings.
More to the point, the tolerance we urge the Muslim world to embrace as we exercise our right to free expression, and revel in the glory and the gift of irreverence, is the same we must embrace when Muslims seek to express themselves peacefully.” Kathleen Parker - The Ground Zero mosque must be built
Fun Size Bytes (from @Tj): Sorry for the unintended autoplay, folks
…I didn’t understand what the “talking on the dashboard” was about until I saw that Ron and Emmy mentioned something about it right after my Daily Show post.
Long story short, one of the video embed codes was set to ‘autoplay’ which I hadn’t realized because I use ClickToFlash
The worst thing about Autoplay on the dashboard is that if your dashboard happens to have minimized the video into the little gray icon with the “Watch” link… autoplay still works. So you can hear the talking, but you can’t tell where it’s coming from. So you’re frantically flipping between browser tabs trying to figure out which one of them is making noise.
