Gotta find a new blog host
This place is just too hard to navigate around in (aside from the seeming emphasis on pre-teen matters of import, such as the popularity of various boy-bands).

Blogger, the most common host-of-choice, gives me firewall errors, though. Not sure WHOSE firewall, but I'll have to check it out. Wish I still had dial-up capabilities at work and could go around my local network -- too restrictive; too visible to PTB.

Oh, well.

Still getting my feet under me at this point.

Have a fun and safe Labor Day weekend
I'm going to lunch with my family right now, but I might be back later (or this weekend) to post a bit more.

In the meantime, drive carefully, eat sparingly, and keep the lighter fluid away from open flames.

First, a couple of links to newsworthy (or otherwise) items:
Here's a "Do It Yourself Guide to Civil War" for the Palestinian Authority -- maybe it's an idea whose time has come.

Then, there's this heartening news from Iraq.

I got my Dilbert Newsletter in my e-mail today. Scott Adams sends these out three or four times a year to all member of the DNRC -- "Dogbert's New Ruling Class" -- which includes all of us who subscribe to the Dilbert newsletter. Seems kinda recursive, but it works for me. Anyway, one of the more endearing sections is his "quotes from induhviduals," induhviduals being those who do NOT subscribe and who, after Dogbert takes over the world, will become the personal body servants of the DNRC members. Quoting from Dilber Newsletter, version 49.0:

Quotes From Induhviduals
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Observant DNRC members continue to send me true quotes of
Induhviduals. For your convenience, I organized the boner mots into logical categories.


Quotes that sound painful:

"Can I pick your ear?"
"I've got an ace up my hole."
"It leaves a real bad note in your mouth."
"I don't want to shoot myself in the hip."
"We have to make this deadline. Otherwise, we eat it in the shorts."


Critter-related quotes:

"I've been running around like a chicken with my legs cut off!"
"The monkey is in their court."
"There's more than one way to screw a cat!"
"That really grinds my goat."


Mutated Metaphors:

"There's a school of thumb that believes..."
"The money clock runneth over."
"Yesterday, it worked like a top."
"We'll kill two rocks in one basket."
"You can lead a blind man to water but you can't make him chug it."
"They're so busy they don't have two minutes to rub together."
"The phones were ringing out of their wits."
"Well, that really puts a wrinkle in my ointment."
"That was a real notch in his feather."
"I'm going to watch you like the back of a hawk."


Possibly naughty quotes:

"That guy beats to a different drum!"
"Whatever rubs your boat!"


Hall of Duhhh Quotes:

"I don't get why we're having a war. I mean, if Bush owns Texas, that means he owns all that oil they farm there, right? So why do we need the oil in Arabia? I mean, it probably costs a fortune just to drive the stuff over here, what with the price of gas and all."

My high school gym coach, God help me, once instructed the class to "line up in a straight circle and count off by ones."

Heh, to coin a phrase.