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Why you should take Gentoo seriously

OK, I’m a former Gentoo user so I’m definitely biased in favor of Gentoo Linux as one of the better distributions out there.  Part of the reason for this is the Gentoo user community, as evidenced at the Gentoo Forums.  Now I see yet another reason why Gentoo is a superior product:  Gentoo users tend to be extremely open-minded and they worry about the state of the world.  Don’t believe me?  Check out this discussion about the use of Nazi symbols on the Gentoo Forums.  They take this stuff seriously.  Good for them.

Holy crap, I CAN believe it got nominated

Kathy Griffin blogs that she can’t believe her show was nominated for an Emmy. Why not? Has she actually watched any of the other shows on television? While she was sleeping, the broadcast networks took off television shows and put on endless repetitions of exactly two shows: Survive the Wilderness / Find a Treasure / Kick Everybody Out of the House, the Reality series; and CSI: Galax.

At least Kathy manages to be funny. After all, this isn’t high art we’re talking about; it’s television. It’s something to do while you’re drinking Vodka. Get over it. Enjoy the award. Should look nice next to your ripped sofa.

It failed again (or, “When failure is a Good Thing”)

Those brilliant boobs in the House have once again managed to fail to pass a bill to write hate into the United States Constitution, a bill which they really had no intention of passing in the first place. We’re talking about the so-called gay marriage amendment.

Why can’t it pass? Simple. As this (non-scientific) poll at MSNBC shows, a very solid majority of Americans don’t think discrimination has any business in our founding document (59% as I write this). Even if Congress managed to push it through, there’s just no way it would pass three-quarters of the states to be written into the Constitution.

The real crux of the issue is this: nobody in Congress really cares anyway. It’s a political issue, pure and simple. They’re using it to get elected, and that’s all. If they actually wanted to pass such an amendment, they could easily sway the vote. After all, remember the vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq?

Did you mean: North Tryon Street?

I realize that Dubya & Co. seem to have cornered the market on attacking the messenger, claiming any news reporter who doesn’t simply repeat official press releases is a horrible liberal, and is probably lying. I hate that.

Sometimes, though, the messenger needs to be attacked, and WCNC News is an excellent example. There’s a story on their award-winning website right now explaining that a crime wave has broken out on North Tyron Street.

Hey, Zippy! That should be TRYon, not TYRon. It doesn’t appear just in the head; it’s repeated throughout the entire story, and it’s even part of the URL (071606cckrWcncNorthTyron.1c88f439.html).

I really wish they had an editor at WCNC, or indeed at any news outlet. Children are being tested practically to death in school, and news reporters, who once were exemplary with their grammar and usage, can’t even bother to avoid repetitive transposition errors.

I’m hoping someone at WCNC (Anna Crowley, are you reading this?) will notice the problem and update the story. Or maybe I’ll just keep trying different mapping sites until I find one that can tell me where Tyron Street is.