The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
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I’m a bit busy revamping the Tucows developer sites, so there’s little time to write. That doesn’t mean you’ll leave empty-handed: I’ve saved this guide to things that were considered swear words and phrases over the past few hundred years. I figure it’s timely: with an election on the horizon, there are bound to be curse words aplenty over the next few weeks.
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Voting for the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards closes tonight. If you haven’t cast your vote for Accordion Guy (under the category “Best Blog”), do so now!
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(Don’t get the joke? See here, here and here.)
I’d write more, but dinner beckons. I’ll simply say that you can expect more election-related postings starting tomorrow and running right up to the big day, Monday, January 23rd, 2006.
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David Janes, friend and right-wing blogger, remixed the Tom Tomorrow comic (America: A Brief Parable) that I posted earlier and posted it to his blog, Ranting and Roaring:
He also writes:
Remember the Afghan invasion … the brutal Afghan winter? The millions of refugees that were going to spill out from that war? The hundreds of thousands of casualties? The graveyard of empires? The quagmire? Remember the Iraq invasion … the millions of refugees? The hundreds of thousands of casualties? The elite Iraqi guard? Being “bogged down” in sandstorms? The quagmire? Bush’s “Vietnam”? The tens of thousands of US casualties?
I know he’s speaking to the portion of the population that’s to his political left, but it might be worthwhile to answer his questions here.
The invasion of Afghanistan was, in my opinion, justified. There were definite connections between 9/11 and Al-Qaeda. 100% support there. Thumbs up. Peanut Butter Jelly Time.
The problems come up with the rest of the laundry list. Remember Iraq’s stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction? That the war would last weeks? That American troops would be greeted with flowers and candy?
That the insurgency was in its final throes? Or even why the invasion took place (is it WMDs, fomenting democracy or countering Islamic fundamentalist terrorism?)
(Now that the troops are there, I believe that immediate withdrawal or even short-term withdrawal is a baaad idea. It’ll probably send precisely the wrong message to anyone whose sympathies lie with Islamic terrorists or North Korea.)
How about some of those appointments so awful that even the most die-hard Bush sycophants called him on them? FEMA’s Michael Brown, who could barely coordinate an Arabian Horse society, never mind disaster relief? Or Harriet Miers, whose primary qualification was ass-kissing?
How about the War on Science, from “teach both (creationism and evolution) theories?” to its strange “Goofus and Gallant” approach?
Well, David, we’ll have to discuss this over beer sometime. Perhaps before Christmas, so we can exchange small tokens, which I suspect will be the bumper sticker shown below:
Click the image to go to the web page where you can buy such a sticker.
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A quick reminder: The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century has been nominated for the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards “Best Blog” award! Vote for me today!
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Just for kicks, a photo of me in my role as Best Man at Rob Strickler’s and Leslie Thun’s wedding last month:
And while we’re at it, one of my lovely wife:
And here’s one of the bride and groom after the wedding rehearsal dinner:
I’ll post whatever photos I have from their wedding and various pre-wedding celebrations in an album soon.
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File it under “It’s funny, because it’s true”: the latest edition of the This Modern World comic:
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I used to have a “Best Of” set of links in the sidebar of this blog that listed what I thought were my best blog articles. The sidebars are a little crowded these days, but there’s a “Best Of” page.
It’s not complete — I still have a few more articles to add — but it should provide an hour or so of interesting procrastination. Enjoy!
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[via Superfrankenstein] The mash-up the world’s been waiting for — Family Circus comics with captions taken from H.P. Lovecraft!
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Congratulations to fellow blogger Maria “Adventures in Downtown Toronto” Davo on becoming a Canadian citizen today! From one immigrant to another, welcome!
Being a well-known blogger in Accordion City, Maria is probably the second best-known Mexican immigrant to Canada. The mantle of best-known Mexican-Canadian goes to “Ren”, from Ren and Stimpy, pictured below:
Now, let us all rise for the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen Anthem [1.9MB, MP3].
The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen episode of Ren and Stimpy
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When public service announcements try too hard to be hip, this sort of train wreck is usually the result:
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Every year, on the day after Thanksgiving, a few thousand people are sacrificed in Manhattan to appease the angry god Grover. Luckily for me, I was in Boston…
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Here’s something fascinating yet spooky: the newly-elected Polish government has opened its military archives from the days of the Warsaw Pact, which includes a 1979 scenario called “Seven Days to the River Rhine” based on the ridiculous assumption that NATO would be the aggressor in a nuclear exchange. Here’s a map that outlines the scenario…
Radek Sikorsky, the Polish defence minister, displayed a map of USSR strikes which shows a barrage of Soviet multi-megaton nuclear strikes on key river lines, including the Rhine and the Meuse, and a Nato counter strike with smaller more accurate nuclear warheads on the Vistula as it runs through Poland.
The Nato strikes are supposed to have been mounted to interdict the movement of Soviet reinforcements from Russia to the battle front.
The whole scheme, codenamed Seven Days to the River Rhine, is predicated on the idea that Nato would be the aggressor and that the Warsaw Pact, under Soviet control, would respond only in self-defence.
Yeah. Right.
Sikorsky didn’t consult with Moscow before opening the archive, which is sure to ruffle some feathers in Russia. In an article in The Independent, who covered the event in the sensationalistically-titled Soviet Plans to Annihilate Europe Revealed, Sikorsky is quoted as saying:
“We need to know about our past. Historians have the right to know the history of the 20th century. If people did some things they were not proud of, that will be an education for them too.I think it is very important for a democracy for the citizens to know who was who, who was the hero and who was the villain. On that basis we make democratic choices.
I think it is also important for the health of civic society for morality tales to be told: that it pays to be decent and that if you do things that did not serve the national interest, one day it will come out and you might be called to account.”
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It’s blog awards time again: voting for the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards
is open until this Wednesday, and The Adventures of Accordion Guy in
the 21st Century is nominated for “Best Blog”! Won’t you please vote
for this blog, which presented these goodies over the past year?:
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