Yahoo! News – Pair Arrested for Telling Lawyer Jokes Did you hear the one about the two guys arrested for telling lawyer jokes? Further proof that lawyers (collectively, I’m sure there are exceptions) view themselves as some sort of new American Aristocracy, above the laws that bind the peons. Of course, I’m sure they see […]

If you’re reading this, you’re 1 in a million. So says Alexa…this site’s “reach” is 1 person per million internet users. Just an interesting factoid… Reach for tom-hanna.org : (what’s this) Reach per million users: Today 1 wk. Avg. 3 mos. Avg. 3 mos. Change — 1 0.1 —

After I commented on my Linspire experience the other day, Kevin gave Ubuntu Linux a try and recommended it. It’s definitely the equal of Linspire, though I don’t care for the default color scheme as much, and has a couple of extra points in its favor. First, it’s completely free. Not an evaluation version, not […]

The News Let me first point out that there is no Woman Party which runs candidates in elections. There is no Black Party. There is no Latino Party. There is no Fundamentalist Party. There is no Labor Party. None of those constituencies have their own political operation running their own candidates who have the ability […]

Testing the Linspire Live test CD I downloaded. Booted right up. By accident, actually, since I didn’t think I had the CD drive set as the default boot drive. Now I know why the computer’s been so slow to boot when it has music in the CD drive. “CNR” (Click n run) beats “PNP” (Plug […]

Newmark’s Door: points to an article indicating that the attribution of “This is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put” to Winston Churchill is incorrect. Incorrect or not, it is enduring because it rings true as exactly the sort of response Churchill would have made. As it turns out, Churchill’s point […]