Head over to Power Phillips, P.C., home of the Bitches from Hell Reporter, for your dose of humor. Every page I’ve looked at so far has generated a chuckle. I’m going to keep the link handy for those times I need to quickly defuse a sour mood.
Via Stephan Kinsella at LewRockwell.com.
On 9/12/2001 many of my family members were getting into cars to drive many miles to a funeral service. The airports were closed. But were they? According to this article:
Members of Osama bin Laden’s family were allowed to fly out of the US shortly after the September 11 terror attacks, a senior official has said.
Even though American airspace had been shut down, the Bush administration allowed a jet to fly around the US picking up family members from 10 cities, including Los Angeles, Washington DC, Boston and Houston.
Some 140 high ranking Saudi officials were also on the plane.
The apparent source for this is Richard Clark the former White House counter-terrorism chief.
I hope this turns out to be false.
Via Skippy.
New on the right side bar is the roll of Modulator’s top referrers. Currently based on blogs that provided 10 or more referrals in the month of August (someday I hope to base it on a minimum of 150 referrals like Mr. Joyner). Thank you one and all!
Also, I’d like to acknowledge significant referrals from some of the blogosphere’s ‘service’ sites: Technorati, weblogs.com, blogrolling.com, MovableType, Blogdex, blogoshpere.us, NZ Bear’s Ecosystem and Daypop. If there are others I’ll pick you up next month.
All of the blog rolls except the Base Roll are ordered by most recently updated so be sure to ping weblogs.com or blogrolling.com to push to the top of the rolls. These are certainly the sites I tend to look at first and visitors will see you at the top of the roll as well.
For a brief discussion of Modulator’s blog rolls look here.
I will remember to take my laptop power cord with me. I will remember to take my laptop power cord with me. I will remember to take my laptop power cord with me.
Repeat 1000 times.
This would be less of a problem if I replaced the current batteries (about a 10 minute life). But even then a couple hours isn’t much when you are thinking 4-5 hours of online work.
Of course, a benefit of having no meaningful network access last night (our other machine is in use most of the evening by others) was that I got a whole bunch of other stuff done.
Modulator will be slow starting up after the long weekend.
In the meantime head over to a new group blog called Open Source Politics. You’ll find a lot of great progressive content from many of your favorite bloggers and special guests. Thank you to Kevin Hayden and the rest of the OSP team for a job well done!