Reactuate

Yuna has a great post putting all the things we take for granted here in the USA in perspective.

I worry my kids don’t know how good they have it. I wonder how to show them. Take a trip to a third world country? Visit missionaries working in those places? Go volunteer at a food bank [...]

….is not always the best way to handle things. From Powerline about the Katrina Relief Appropriation Bill.

No one made any calculations to come up with the $50 billion number; it was just nice and round. No one has a plan as to how it should be spent. No one has prioritized projects. No one has [...]

While surfing and looking for yet more ways to make me think about how popular to unpopular Reactuate is, I discovered this summary of a paper on political blogs in the 2004 election.

Cool stuff. Interesting that the number of blogs were equal. Also interesting was news outlets preferred by liberal bloggers. Conservative’s preference for Fox [...]

My wife pointed to a page describing Joe Huffman’s firing. It is a detailed look at how he used log files to determine who was reading his blog and what they were reading.

First it is fascinating to see how much you can learn from your logs. I knew you could because I did some of [...]

So we won. There is no need to gloat. This is a golden rule kind of thing. Remember how we felt in 1996 when Dole lost to Clinton and we thought the world was going to end and the streets were going to run red with the blood aborted babies? That’s how our Democratic friends [...]

I’d like to ignore the election but I seem unable to do it through will power so I’m going to see Team America instead. Cleared it with the Mrs and I’m not even goin’ home.

Personally I’d like to sleep through today and just wake up tomorrow and see who won. But that isn’t going to happen sooooo…since all the cool kids are doing it…here’s my prediction of the electoral college.

I also decided to be an optimist. Personally I don’t think it is going to be close. Either I’m right [...]

Cox & Forkum: On pins and needles.

Yeah its partisan, conservative, Republican etc. It’s also probably true.