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A La Carte (06/28)

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Wednesday June 28, 2006

Sports: The Weekly Standard has a great article which perfectly summarizes my attitude towards soccer. “Soccer…would appear to be a game better suited to dim-witted quadrupeds than to human beings.”

Politics: Cynthia McKinney’s blog has an article which has to be read to be believed. “The good ol’ boy cracker-crats of the Republican party are having themselves a regular hootenanny over allegations that congresswoman Cynthia McKinney landed a punch on a security guard at the Capitol.”

Design: As I tend to do every 8 or 12 months, I’ve been considering implementing a new design for this site. Ironically, just as I’ve gotten a new design going, the current one begins receiving attention from sites by and for designers such as this one and this one.


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