The final issue of the Daily Probe for 2005 is up now.
There is talk of making the Daily Probe a true daily. I hope that this will be a success but have little hope that we could surpass Scott Ott or Iowahawk (I'm sure he has a real name but I'm too lazy right now to find it) or Jim Treacher in daily hits or daily yuxs. I suspect it will become a daily humor blog in practice if not in masthead style.
Anyway, I have a couple of pieces in the latest issue but I have to warn you there's some stuff on there that's offensive just for offense's sake, so tread carefully.
NOTE: I won't tell you where I edited an "even" out of this post.
This happened just a short distance from the house I grew up in:
Gwinnett police were hunting Wednesday for an intruder or intruders who killed a 2-year-old boy and his father and critically injured the child's mother.Each had been shot once in the head, police said.
Police identified the victims as Hung Thai, 37, and his son, Hugh Thai. Hung Thai's wife, Hoangoanh Ta, also 37, underwent surgery Wednesday afternoon at Gwinnett Medical Center and was listed in critical condition, police said.
Tragic.
Well, thanks to Dean Esmay I have the latest version of Movable Type blogging software, as well as Typekey-enabled comments. This was necessary because I (and my hosting company) were getting killed by comment spammers.
Comment spammers are strange creatures, the cockroaches of the blogging world. They're not really trying to sell their products here at Boviosity - no, they're on the site for one reason: to get higher Google rankings. They're piggybacking cockroaches!
No more.
If you want to comment on Boviosity, you will need to get a Typekey account. It's free and easy and you can use the same account to comment on any Typekey-enabled weblog. I hope you will continue to comment despite this slightly onerous requirement. It's the only way at my disposal to defeat these spamming scum.
I'll be making some cosmetic changes hereabouts to accomodate the new version. Meanwhile, if you find any problems that seem to be hanging around longer than they should, let me know...preferably in a comment. That way I know you got your Typekey!
Jim Treacher, doin' it DC-style.
In case you're not clicking on the site daily from my blogroll, (why aren't you clicking on the site daily from my blogroll?) check out Tim Blair's second annual quotes of the year. Just scroll.
Here's a taste, from January:
* "The Letters Editor at the SMH or The Age will publish a 'I feel ashamed to be an Australian' or 'I have never been so ashamed to be an Australian' letter." -- prediction from reader J. Softly, posted January 1* "Our detention centres give me cause to feel utter shame to be called Australian." -- Melbourne Age reader Claire Nailer, in a letter published January 2
Talk about a running start!
The leader of Philippine militant group Abu Sayyaf reportedly has died in an air strike on the group's hideout, The Australian reported Monday.Authorities are investigating intelligence reports that Khadaffy Janjalani's "body was severed (cut in half)" during a Nov. 19 air raid on the group's base in marshlands on southern Mindanao island.
Charles Krauthammer brings amazing life to an issue that I have been struggling with for years, even before I was a church-going Christian: the petty (when it's not outright vicious) chip-on-the-shoulder attitude toward American Christianity and its outward and visible signs.
Last year I noted that I learned three things at my son's public school "Holiday" pageant: The Maccabees' lamps stayed lit for 8 days, Kwanzaa is a celebration of several allegedly African "unities," and the postman has the very dickens of a time keeping up with the gift-giving this time of year. Yay God.
OK, I don't expect a full-on Christmas pageant at a public school - where would they find the wise men? (HAW! --ed.) But the studied piety of the approach to other traditions, in the absence of any mention whatsoever of Christ, was jarring.
Anyway, Krauthammer is really worth reading on this score. Check it out.
Man, I've been getting a lot accomplished during my daily two hours round trip commute. I've been driving all the way in the last few days instead of taking MARTA, and so I decided to perfect my backwards alphabet. This was a skill my father used to show off and I realized a few months ago that I had never emulated it.
Well, while doing these mental calisthenics over the last few weeks I realized that the natural tendency, to sing it to the tune of the normal alphabet song, just doesn't work. (Dad never sang it, that I recall, just spoke the letters.) Singing it, you have to find places to up-syllabilate the letters in order to make the thing come out, or just bounce on "A" 3 times at the end. (Your experience may differ.)
So anyway, last night I came up with a great tune for the alphabet backwards, or as I like to call it, the zedygrec. Now if only there were some way to share it here. Oh well, I'll find a way. It's pretty cool - Tasha LOVED it, and the neighbor kids couldn't stop laughing (or backing away). It sounds like something the Oompa Loompas might sing, or the villains in a half-hour animated Dr. Seuss special.
Great new Kate Bush video here. Hilarious!
Although I think "There Goes A Tenner" would have been more suitable, in so many ways. At any rate, I'm going to rummage around in my CD bin and make this a Kate-listening day.
(Via the newly relocated Tim Blair, who is convinced it's not parody. C'mon, Tim!)
UPDATE: Oops, couldn't find my Kate CD's. Substituted Echo & The Bunnymen. Higher & higher, bay-bee!
Police Dog Bites Nude Man in Genitals
Mitch, you ok bud?