Columbia vs. Discovery

| August 9, 2005

[Updated] When Columbia was lost 2½ years ago, one of the first reactions of the insane far left was “MIHOP,” the idea being that President Bush had conspired towards the destruction of the shuttle (possibly with the intent of blaming sabotage for the tragedy) in order to raise the general patriotism and Israel-friendliness (due to […]

Petard (See Also “Hoist By One’s Own”)

| August 8, 2005

One of my pet “netiquette” peeves is hotlinking. I have a few images on this site that are regularly hotlinked (this post is popular… people use the Berkeley whacko image as an avatar in forums), and so every once in a while I rename the image file and put in a substitute that briefly makes […]