McCain campaign takes umbrage at Madonna concert

Democrats may tax health benefits - The Boston Globe WASHINGTON - In the last month of the presidential campaign, it was one of Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s strongest attack lines: John McCain, they warned, would “tax your healthcare benefits for the first time ever.”But now, some Congressional Democrats in charge of health reform are talking about doing just that. ... more

http://dagnyd.net/vichy.htm Welcome to Vichy America This was not just another election. The last time we had a presidential election, the Left tried to get a brazen traitor elected - namely John Kerry. This new President from the Left is even more than that. Obama was no traitor, because he never was really on our side in the first place. Obama was really a foreign candidate - in spirit, funding, and citizenship. Written by Dagny D’Anconia Friday, 28 November 2008 ... more

Out in California, they recalled 143 million pounds of tainted beef. That’s one triple-stacked burger at Wendy’s. A hundred forty three million pounds of tainted beef! I believe that’s the largest amount of tainted meat since Roger Clemens.” -David Letterman “John McCain seems reinvigorated. He has a new campaign slogan, ‘he’ll lead you into the 21st century.’ [...]... more

As you might imagine, with my new job I’ve been thinking a lot about the fine art of blogging. I’ve been doing it less and less myself, as being both busy and tired left me little motivation for getting online and writing when I didn’t have to. But working for Automattic and not blogging is like working for Volvo and not owning a driver’s license. So, in the interest of eating my own dog food, rather than “rebooting” my site with yet another redesign, I&#... more

Tonight, with great excitement, the team at Automattic launched the new WordPress.com . Designing and coding the new site was my second task as a full-timer at Automattic, and it was definitely the one project I was most looking forward to tackling when I took the position. As with all relaunches, there are a few things to finesse here and there, but we’re all quite excited about the new site. Our users’ content is the star of the show here, but we’ve made it even easi... more

My cable internet connection went down about 5:30 today. As usual, I began with jiggling wires around, making sure there was nothing wrong here at the house, then sitting at my desk, staring at the blinking lights for a few minutes, hoping they might start their usual dance if I just sat there long enough. When I realized that wouldn’t work, I occupied myself for about an hour before I had really gotten tired of waiting for it to come back up. So, I called Mediacom. “Thank you ... more

I’m constantly in iTunes listening to samples from bands that people told me I’d “love,” but more often than not the music, while it may be ok, just isn’t all that compelling. But it’s a wonderful thing when one of those songs grabs you and won’t let go.  Mobile suffers from a crippling lack of decent radio stations, but one that occasionally gets it right is 92 Zew. And lately, they’ve been playing a song called Devil’s Got a Holda Me ... more