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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Dear Women Thursday Edition Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:10 AM PDT I’m pretty sure that the doom of mankind is upon us now that I’ve seen this video. I’m afraid I can’t adequately describe just how pitiful it is save to give you a short description of its contents: it is, essentially, a group of men apologizing to women for being men and asking, pretty please with sugar on top, if they can be women the rest of their lives without actually having to go through gender reassignment surgery. I admit, I can’t tell you more than that. I only made it through less than a minute of the whole thing before I had to turn it off. I could actually feel my testosterone level dropping faster than a pregnant pole-vaulter wearing a lead radiation suit. I can not be held responsible for anything that happens to you if you choose to watch for longer than is absolutely necessary to laugh until tears flow from your eyes. And now, links! This post by the Troglopundit is the must-read post of the day. It contains more actual fact about how taxation and spending works than anything you will find squawked by the likes of Chris van Hollen, who I remind you, utterly failed to pass any kind of budget last year. It’s worth remembering as we face a potential government shutdown, that everything the government tells you about the apocalypse you will face without its warm and comforting presence is specifically crafted to scare the bejeezus out of you. Speaking of government fiction designed to scare you, take a look at the bogus “science” the EPA has used to regulate the air that you breathe. In what world does the phrase “incorporate my uterus” make any sense save the very strange world of the progressive left? However, the phase does suggest that any potential inhabitants of said incorporated wombs should be considered stakeholders, with a say about whether they live or die. Single women? Here is a very useful checklist for your future dating purposes. Ed Driscoll revisited a classic essay, and substituted “Barack Obama” for “Bill Clinton”. One day, we’ll have a free trade agreement with Colombia. Hopefully, the Colombians will forgive us for letting wealthy union leaders hold things up for more than four years. Here is an app I’m pretty sure you will want for your iPhone or iPad — Atari’s 100 Greatest Hits. You can buy selected game packs for 99 cents, or the whole shebang for $14.99. I’m actually amazed that the Sword Quest games made the list. Here is a beautiful photo of the Milky Way that would make an amazing desktop wallpaper.

The Delivery Presents – Socky’s New White House Gig Posted: 06 Apr 2011 06:08 PM PDT I was ready to do Episode 87 Tuesday morning, which is a bit unusual. It’s not often I get such a great topic for discussion, one that causes me to crank out a couple pages of show notes before lunchtime. Paul Ryan’s budget plan, though, is worth some serious examination and so I spent some time with it and some of the auto-criticisms against it and I knew I could do a half-hour on it with ease. What I didn’t know then was that hours later I’d be in full rant about…Max Baucus. Max Baucus? Yes, well, you have to listen to the show to hear how I got there. And you’ll also hear the reason why Socky the Sock Puppet did the show’s intro. It turns out he’s just perfect for a job in the administration. It will help, when you listen to the second half, to have some experience with the podcasts Ron Moore recorded for Battlestar Galactica during most of the show’s run. As I say at length in the show, I honestly don’t know why more shows do what Moore and the Sci-Fi Channel did. The advantage for the creators — and I didn’t think of this until after the show had wrapped — is that they will already have some special commentary tracks done when they’re ready to release their shows to DVD. They can give their show’s fans some extra goodies and save themselves some time later on. That seems like a good thing to me. Don’t sleep on the mid-show break. Greg Anstey, who may well be making a bid for Greatest Podcast Fan in the History of Podcasts, has produced another song parody and it’s a rumpshaker! I’m working up a page for Greg’s parodies that will have links to all of them so you can listen to them all by themselves that should be on the site in a couple days (over the weekend at the latest). Big thanks to SMP Mike for organizing all of them in their own folder so I can get to them more easily. I don’t expect there’ll be a show on Friday. We’re going to record an episode of Right this Way with at least one new addition to the Take that Media podcasting family, so I’ll be tied up with that. Expect that podcast to hit over the weekend. It won’t be live (so far as I know), but it’ll be fun. I may gear one up for next Friday, but I can’t make any promises right now. The Delivery - Episode 87 This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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