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Sometimes political correctness is, to put it succinctly, a pain in the ass.
Mitt Romney of Massachusetts got himself into hot water on Saturday by referring to Boston’s Big Dig as a “tar baby”:
The best thing for me to do politically is stay away from the Big Dig – just get as far away [...]

As expected, Floyd Landis continues to protest his innocence. No definitive word yet on his B sample, but further information has become available on his A sample, and it doesn’t look good.
In light of this, it’s hard to believe his B sample could possibly exonerate him, and it will probably just be a matter [...]

On most Sunday mornings I do this ride from my house, to downtown, south to the Sellwood bridge and across, picking up the Springwater Corridor trail going north and then the riverside path up to the Steel Bridge, back across to the west riverside path, back down to the fountain at Taylor and then back [...]

Ladonia’s Ministry of Undisclosable Purpose makes the Iraq War much more comprehensible.

Bonus points if you can identify the source of the font used in this image and explain why it’s so entirely appropriate.
An excerpt:
History tells us that the price of freedom is sometimes death, and we are going to help people to pay that price, [...]

So McSweeney’s does a quarterly thing which they call McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. Actually the Quarterly Concern came first, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency sort of sprung up from that. You could call the Concern a magazine, if you’re comfortable using the term for something that could be anywhere from a 300-page sumptiously bound [...]

Initial reports confirm that Floyd Landis was probably doped during his Stage 17 performance in the Tour de France.
And just like that, enthusiam evaporates and condenses into cynicism and bitterness. Even in the (apparently unlikely) event that Landis is exonerated, it’s too late – it’ll never be the same.
Side note – I posted about [...]

Grr. Aargh.

Moiz Syed’s Israeli/Lebanese Coffin Counter pretty much speaks for itself.
America’s unflinching support for Israel is a problematic subject. You can’t question Israel, or our support for Israel, without being tarred with the anti-Semite brush. But at the same time, how can you look at what’s really happened in the Middle East over the [...]

Okay, on a less political and more geeky note – pardon my French but how fucking awesome does this look?
Wow. This may be enough to get me to rebuild my PC gaming box.
Thanks to the lovely Alice @ Wonderland for the link.

Luther he’s not, but somebody named Devanshu has nailed his 95 Theses of Geek Activism on the door of the Interweb (well, technically speaking, on the Science Addiction blog, but you know, creative license). Link courtesy of Cory @ BoingBoing, who recently had a birthday (which I know because I share it).
There [...]