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On this day in 2008 some ones and zeros were uploaded to a vacant outpost on the world wide web and thus, rather inauspiciously, www.threedonia.com was born! As with most offspring, threedonia has developed quite differently than Floyd, Chuck and I foresaw, gazing through the celebratory cigar smoke on that storied day. We began as [...] Share on Facebook Just wanted to quickly point your attention to three excellent pieces over at National Review Online. At the Corner, Andy McCarthy details the changing role of the federal government on the issue of immigration, which he points out is distinct from naturalization. …in 1899 the Supreme Court, in the so-called Chinese Exclusion Case (Chae Chan Ping v. [...] Here are a couple of fascinating ideas to noodle around with: Are We Living Inside a Black Hole? Share on Facebook The Arizona Diamondbacks played at the New York Mets’ Citi Field last night. In addition to a couple dozen people protesting Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, leaflets were handed out urging Major League Baseball to move next year’s All-Star Game out of Phoenix. New York being what it is, I wouldn’t be surprised if the protesters got [...] A while back, Iowahawk was wondering what the next Journolist revelation would be. Not content to wait and see, he wrote it himself. Like everything he writes, it’s funny and contains many swear words. Here’s how he wraps it up: KEITH OLBERMANN: Say, would any of you boys care to join me over at Chatroulette tonight? SPENCER ACKERMAN [...] That’s how this website translates, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” It’s amusing for a while. You can watch the translations as they occur, from English to a random language and back. It seems that Chinese really cannot be translated by a machine. When a piece of text completely derails, it’s usually because it hit the [...] From a speech Calvin Coolidge delivered upon the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence: Although a century and a half measured in comparison with the length of human experience is but a short time, yet measured in the life of governments and nations it ranks as a very respectable period. [...] I’ve always been a fan of Tom Carvel and his ice cream. Loved the homespun television commercials, especially. But now they’ve gone Hollywood, with predictable results. Recently, the chain of ice cream stores issued cards to various celebrities entitling them to free ice cream, but one celebrity just couldn’t be trusted to use it responsibly. From Carvel’s [...] From the BBC: A German student “mooned” a group of Hell’s Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said. The man drove up to a Hell’s Angels clubhouse near Munich, wearing only a pair of shorts and carrying a puppy. He dropped his shorts and threw the dog, escaping on [...] We’re all used to the insertion of opinion into news stories, of course. It happens all the time. I don’t know why, but I still get aggravated when it occurs in science news. From SPACE.com: Dark matter and dark energy are two of the most mind-boggling ingredients in the universe. Ever since these concepts were first proposed, [...] In a caper which appears to have been planned out after watching ‘Die Hard,’ gunmen set off explosions and took over Iraq’s central bank. The violence began with the bombings — which sent plumes of smoke over the city skyline — although there were conflicting reports about the number and nature of the blasts. The first bomb [...] Believe it or not, I actually had my own blog before I joined Threedonia. It was pretty good, too. A few more months, and I’d have had as many comments as we get here in a couple of days, if I hadn’t been lured away by Rufus. Regardless of the amount of people who saw or [...] Jonathan was born deaf, and has received a cochlear implant. Here he is at eight months, hearing his mother’s voice for the first time. h/t First Things Share on Facebook We recently had one of our infrequent meetings of the Threedonian Ruling Council of Elders. It was fun, even though Floyd forgot to bring the bean dip (again) and Rufus insisted on trying on Wank’s do-me pumps, which was about as disturbing as you imagine. Nonetheless, we discussed, we argued, we laughed, we cried and [...] In yesterday’s open thread a discussion arose about John Stossel’s argument that private individuals and companies ought to have the right to discriminate against anyone they please, without any threat of retribution from the government. I didn’t think too much about it, because I disapprove of racial discrimination and didn’t see it as a bad thing [...] There have been two perfect games pitched so far this season, which has never happened before. Tonight there was almost a third. There should have been a third. But the umpire blew the call on what would have been the 27th out: ” It was the biggest call of my career, and I kicked the (stuff) out [...] BUMPED: Show’s over…. Mike is clairvoyant! It’s now or never… I think we’ll find that the plot of the finale will be familiar. We’ve been told that the Island is a cork that seals in evil, and that although Desmond was Widmore’s “failsafe” plan to stop unLocke’s escape from the Island, unLocke can use him to [...] Share on Facebook Sorry if this has been mentioned here already, but it’s news to me: The son of a Democratic Tennessee lawmaker was convicted Friday on two charges in the hacking of Sarah Palin’s e-mail account while she campaigned on the Republican presidential ticket in 2008. The federal court jury reached its verdict against David Kernell, 22, after four [...] With the ban on incandescent light bulbs looming on the horizon, it’s becoming more and more difficult to find them on my local stores’ shelves. Procrastination is the hoarder’s worst enemy. Since I refuse to make the switch to those CFL death-traps, I have been forced to invent a new source of indoor lighting, which (unlike [...] For the past few years, I’ve been collecting clippings of the annual expert predictions for the hurricane season. I’ve even assembled a virtual scrapbook! There’s a headline for each year, from 2006 to 2009. Every year, experts predict an “active hurricane season.” For the record, since 1950 there have been an average of six hurricanes per [...] Penn & Teller explain how recycling is a waste of time. (Language alert.) Everbody got a gris-gris: Share on Facebook Multiculturalism’s logical result is a monoculture. The cultural group that makes the biggest noise and inspires the most fear wins out, because anyone brave enough to oppose the creep is shamed into silence by craven accusations of intolerance. Britain today. The latest case in point: A diner was left fuming after a KFC restaurant took his [...] …or at least so you’d think, since I took so long to post this picture. We had a wind storm like I’ve never seen a couple of weeks ago. Even my parents had never seen anything like it and they’re like, really old. Anyway, I didn’t want to post the picture right away because my parents were [...] Share on Facebook From USA Today: A 16-year-old boy was responsible for an intercom announcement ordering black people to leave from a Wal-Mart store in southern New Jersey, angering customers and prompting company leaders to apologize, police said Saturday. The boy, whose name is not being released because he is a juvenile, was arrested Friday on charges of harassment and [...] From Popular Science: Our solar system’s ‘hood may get a bit rougher sometime during the next 1.5 million years. An astronomer has given an 86 percent chance for a neighboring star to smash into the frozen Oort Cloud surrounding the outskirts of the solar system, and may scatter some comets toward Earth, Technology Review reports. A hail [...] I was going to put this in the comments in the last Lost thread, but this is too good for anybody to miss. I have no idea how long this has been going on, but Jorge Garcia (above), the actor who plays Hurley, is doing a weekly Lost podcast with a gal who calls herself Bystander [...] Nimble, silent, cunning. These are but a few of the words that don’t come to mind while watching this cat burglar ply his trade. Share on Facebook I’ve gotten behind on my postings, and it’s use-it-or-lose-it time, so here’s an info-dump for you. It’s a Mike-a-pa-looza! POLITICS: The mighty Tom Veal does a good job of explaining why Obamacare ducks the real issue: the spiraling cost of health care. (Emphasis added.) Nothing at all in the Democrats’ plan even tries to make medical resources more abundant. [...] He’s back! After the scandal of the CRU e-mail revelations and the IPCC lies (and vice versa) many wondered if the high priest of the global-warming alarmist movement had permanently retired to his electrified compound to curse, moan, and count his carbon-offset millions. Alas, we’re not done with Al Gore, yet. If the former vice-president learned nothing [...] This is not a new story, but it’s new on Snopes, where I saw it. (It took them over six months to check this out.) It appears some bitter clingers—you know, typical white people—in Idaho requested a military flyover at their “God & Country” festival, at which “new military recruits [are] inducted and all military [are] [...] This looks like a good read. The son of one of the founders of Hamas has written a book detailing his cooperation with Israeli intelligence forces. From the AP: Speaking with Haaretz, Yousef said Shin Bet agents first approached him in prison in 1996 and proposed he infiltrate the upper echelons of Hamas. He did so successfully and [...] If any of you are looking for something to do in between your Lincoln log-rolling and silver dollar-throwing contests (or your FDR wheelchair race and Kennedy-themed quarters tournament*) you could give this game a try: The object is to give your robot a set of simple instructions that will direct him to change all the blue [...] Robert Ferguson was convicted last month of stealing a woman’s wallet and a package of cheese from a convenience store, and now faces the prospect of life in prison under California’s “three-strikes” law. From the Sacramento Bee (via Scripps): Because of a lengthy criminal history that dates back 35 years, including six first-degree burglary convictions, Yolo County [...] BBC News has posted an interview with Phil Jones, the head of the beleaguered Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia. The recent leak of CRU’s e-mails and data files have caused many to question the professionalism of the CRU and their allies in the global warming-alarmist community. Some key excerpts (emphases mine): Do [...] |
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