Maggie's Farm

At Drudge:

Backdoor taxes to hit middle class...
Largest-ever federal payroll to hit 2.15 million employees!

It's been a sad 15 years without Calvin and Hobbes.

Found a Wooly Bear caterpillar curled up cozy in the wood pile the other day. I carefully placed him under a hunk of bark in the woods. I have loved these critters since I used to find them with my Mom as a young kid.

They contain a cryoprotectant that keeps them vital during their winter hibernation. When it warms up, they will wake up and eat like crazy, pupate, and become a tiger moth - the Isabella Moth.

Miss Megyn Kelly. Indeed she does. And brains, too.

During the 1700s and 1800s the Brits scoured the planet to find cool places to visit (or to make money). Amelia Edwards was one of them, and she wrote about it. It was the era when, if you saw a couple of ladies riding side-saddle in the desert or the mountains, the natives would think "They must be English."

From Amazon:

British writer and Egyptologist AMELIA EDWARDS (1831-1892) was a published writer by age seven. Among her books most beloved by readers past and present are the novels Barbara's History (1864) and Lord Brackenbury (1880), and the travelogue A Thousand Miles Up the Nile (1877).

She wrote mysteries too.

We have in hand her book about her trip to the Dolomites: Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys. 

Her other books here.

Chart above via Dino. It splains a lot. No real world experience.

The new Blaser R8

Peer groups and self-control

Too cold for windmills in Minnesota

100 years of radio broadcasting

Now, Pew Says, Marriage Is a Better Deal for Men Than Women. Maybe that's why gays want marriage?

We do get it, Mr. President; we just don't like it

Russia urged China to dump Fannie, Freddie bonds in 2008

Your Tax Dollars at Work: the Civil ‘Service’ That’s Eating America

More on the Pachauri scandal. Related: IPCC loses all credibility

By all means keep the public out of the health care debates. The people are a real problem for politicans.

The "aspiring classes". Aren't we all? All aspiring for different things, too.

Haitians beg USA to take them over. No thanks.

Record cold grips the planet. What does this mean?

Remember this?

To: Howlin
Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.

In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.

The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90’s. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn’t used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80’s used monospaced fonts.

I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.

This should be pursued aggressively.

47 posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:59:43 PM by Buckhead

From Tom Bowler's The Decade the MSM Won at Pajamas.