“Social justice,” writes my sometime blog sparring partner Kathy “Relapsed Catholic” Shaidle, ” is the endless concoction by incompetent people of unworkable solutions to imaginary problems.”
It’s also an apt description for the people currently behind U.S. policy, foreign and domestic…
Click to see the comic on its GoComics page.
Over at Catmas.com, I’m posting a cat picture every day from now until Christmas. Enjoy!
The original version of the classic You’re a Mean One, Mister Grinch was sung in a very impressive basso profundo by the late Thurl Ravenscroft, whom you might know as the voice of Tony the Tiger. What I present to you is a cover more suitable for your hard-drinkin’ Christmas party by country-fried rocker Mojo Nixon.
Mojo Nixon: You’re a Mean One, Mister Grinch (2.9 MB MP3)
You may recognize the sample that backs Superiority Complex’s number, Seasons: it’s from the Vince Guaraldi (the jazz guy behind the music in A Charlie Brown Christmas) track of the same name.
Superiority Complex: Seasons (5.7 MB MP3)
Christmas means peace on earth, goodwill toward men (and women), and…
Novelty songs!
Check out the first verse of Dominic the Italian Christmas Donkey, by Lou Monte, a carol in the best New York Italian fuggedaboutit style…
Santa’s got a little friend,
His name is Dominick.
The cutest little donkey,
You never see him kick.
When Santa visits his paisons,
With Dominick he’ll be.
Because the reindeer cannot,
Climb the hills of Italy.
It’s-a spicy meat-a-ball of a carol.
Lou Monte: Dominic the Italian Christmas Donkey (2.3 MB MP3)
That’s right, the big gathering of Accordion City and area bloggers is only a week away!
For more details, see:
Hope to see you there!
For those of you who have Blogware-based blogs (that includes blogs from Domain Direct, NetIdentity, BlogHarbor and so on) and have looked on jealously at other people’s beautiful blog designs, the Blogware Mechanic series of articles is for you! I’ve been blogging on Blogware for over three years and have started a series of articles in which I’ll show you all sorts of ways to customize the design of your Blogware blog! The first article, Blogware Customization Basics, covers some out-of-the-box basics, but I’ll soon start covering some nifty customizations. Check it out!
If you’ve tried my domain name suggestion tool, Duke of URL, and were wondering what the code behind is, you’re in luck. I’ve got a new series of articles titled Coding the Duke which looks at the underlying code behind the Duke of URL and introduces other things such as the OpenSRS API and the OpenSRS-PHP library. The first article, Introducing OpenSRS-PHP, covers the downloading, installation and taking of a test spin of the OpenSRS-PHP library.