I’m going to miss This American Life, Wait-Wait Don’t Tell Me, and Sound and Spirit but honestly, are these shows not good enough for commercial radio? Maybe it’s time we all start pressuring our representatives to end NPR as a not-for-profit, government subsidized institution and start making these elitist panhandlers pay their own way.

How is an Underwriter different than a sponsor? Their ads are tax deductible – that’s it.

The Bill in question allows for all the people who decided to break into our nation rather than wait in line to stay.

Since Bill promised George I guess he’s not going to make the talk show rounds to say it louder, but it was nice to hear someone who represents the people echo what the people are screaming at the top of their lungs.

Before we get started though I want to point out that I am now number 3 on google’s search results when searching for my first and last name. Take that all you other Jeremy Hohns out there. Soon I will rule the internet! (Update: I took a closer look. The 2nd result on Google is actually me too, but its not a result for this site.)
With that out of the way:

• The good folks over at the j-walk blog have a parody of a new, fake google service, the Google Content Blocker. While we’re on the subject of google fun, back in 03 during the run up to the war in Iraq the people at albinoblacksheep made a site dogging France.
• I get a lot of pleasure out of looking down on people who park in handicap spots without permits. I always dream of having the power to have their vehicle towed away while they ‘just run in for a minute’. This is a better idea.
• This week was my birthday and my sister T asked me if I received any Lego’s. I didn’t – which is okay. I really don’t have a place to play with Lego’s right now. But she did get me thinking about Legos again so I headed on over to the Lego site to discover they’ve now got Batman themed sets. I will have a Batman Mini Figure if nothing else, thought the Two-Face one really excites me too.
• And finally a question to round out this week’s sampler. When did the word gay stop being an adjective and become a noun. I am speaking of the trend of saying someone is ‘a gay’ instead of just gay. I’ve heard this mostly on NPR but its also come up when speaking to my gay friends. Is PC invading grammar now that it has finished with our vocabulary?

We will have peace with the Arabs when they will love their children more than they hate us.

- Golda Meir

If you have a real life relationship with the writer, remember that communication is very important. View weblogs as online journals, no less sacred than a diary hidden between the mattresses.

Sorry kids. If you think your blog is as sacred as your diary, you probably need to go back and read up on how the WORLD WIDE WEB works. There is no privacy – you should not expect any.

If they do not want you reading it, or suddenly stop posting entries, ask them why and if necessary, stop going to the site. It is important that as a friend, relative, co-worker or whatever you may be to the writer, that your presence at their weblog not impede their ability to express themselves.

Once again, if you post something on the web, your rights to have any say over who reads it are pretty much gone. If you don’t want your mom reading about what you do alone in your room, best not post it on the web there chum.

Never use anything off a person’s site, be it writing, images or html code, unless they say otherwise. People are very attached to their work and don’t usually respond well when others help themselves to it.

This one I really don’t have an issue with. I just thought it’d be ironic.

A group of volunteers are in Arizona are fighting against a non-native grass called buffelgrass, going on foot plant to plant and manually uprooting the invasive species. It seems that back in the 1960s it was decided that to control erosion and to provide a hearty crop for cattle they brought some buffelgrass from Africa and set it up to thrive in the American southwest.

Now this all seems well and good until a fire starts. Fires used to burn themselves out in only a matter of minutes in the sparse desert climate. The little vegetation that does grow in the wasteland grows so far from its nearest neighbor that fires had no fuel. Now that buffelgrass has been bought in, fires are spreading likewildfire?

So a group of volunteers have come together to and are walking through the desert and manually uprooting the plants, putting them in a sack, and carrying them out of the desert. They’ve been at it for around six years and have cleared around 10,000 acres and now that Arizona has declared it a noxious weed, they’re getting help from the state to eradicate the plants. Even the Park Service is chipping in money and resources.

Meanwhile, over at the department of agriculture they’re hard at work developing a heartier version of buffelgrass to better-feed cattle.

So while the Park Service is paying people to eradicate, the Department of Agriculture is working on putting a stronger version out there.

Insanity.

At the time I was starting to see Diana I had a weird physically platonic, emotionally involved relationship with this girl named Heather. For some unknown reason I was driving up to Ohio to see this girl every few weeks, just to hang out and see the sites.

One Friday before I was to leave for Ohio I called Diana and asked if she wanted to hang out. I had some errands to run and thought it’d be nice to spend a little bit of time together before I left. When I could offer nothing more than shoe shopping and a haircut she declined.

Even then this bothered me and here’s why. When I’m seeing someone, it really doesn’t matter at all what we’re doing. I enjoy the company, not the environment. Sure there are things that I’d like to do on an outing, or date if you will. I enjoy going to see bands, going to the movies and browsing bookstores but if the company is good I’ll go shopping for tampons and everyday underwear and have the time of my life.

For me it’s about time spent with that person I’m seeing, especially in those early days. You get to see the person in their everyday, their element if you will. Their guard is down, their hair is down and you can really see who they are.

So if we’re seeing each other and you decide you can’t hang out because you have to go grocery shopping, invite me along. We’ll make an outing of it.

For a few weeks now, Muslims in the UK have been complaining about and vandalizing billboards in their neighborhoods featuring scantily clad women because the show of skin offends them.

Speaking to the the Indo-Asian News Service, Ahmed Shiekh of the Muslim Association of Britain said the issue is not one of free speech because ?because freedom of speech should end when you offend others.”

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