Apparently, sending your sixth-grade, 11-year-old daughter to school wearing low, hip-hugging jeans with the Playboy logo on the ass is acceptable practice in Ann Arbor.
Or was that too Puritan of me?
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AirBeagleLand of Civilized Enchantment
There was a vote last week in my home state’s legislature that « gives a glimmer of hope for civility, sanity and intelligence »: ‘The state House on Monday voted to abolish the death...
Air Jesus Drops Bombs on Tolerance
Media Transparency has a fascinating, interesting and ultimately pretty frightening expos´ posted — « Air Jesus: The Evangelical Air Force »: ‘For five days inside the Anaheim...
Advocating Compulsory Imperial Service
Phillip Carter and Paul Glastris, writing in the Washingotn Monthly, « make a compelling case for an Imperial draft of sorts » summed up by the following passage: ‘In short, America’s...
Shutting Us Up, One Way or Another?
Ruh-roh … « a Fascist nerd-twit on the Federal Elections Commission just made a shot across bloggers’ collective bows » in what is probably a typically nasty campaign by the Fascists to...
Of All the Lousy Ways to Make a Buck
Folks are a bit up in arms because « British Airways flew a 747 on two long trips with just three operating engines » [gasp]: ‘A British Airways jet that continued on an 11-hour flight from...
My Dear Fascist Imperial Foreign Minister
Now, here’s yet another reason to consider Canadian citizenship: « somebody above the 49th has a spine and knows how to stand up to the Fascists »: ‘Dear Condi, ‘I’m glad...
Gaybraham Lincoln, by Paul Rudnick
« Further proof that Lincoln was gay », by Paul Rudnick: ‘The first draft of the Gettysburg Address began, “Four score and seven years ago-ish …” … ‘Lincoln...
Stick a Feather Where?
Shhhhhh. Don’t let the Fascists know it, but one of the Empire’s favorite uber-patriotic songs is actually all about [gasp] faggotry! Ahhhhhh! « The horror »: ‘A macaroni, was a...
Blogging Fatigue (Part 2)
Yes, I suppose we have been blogging less lately. I confess to a lot of blogging fatigue, brought on mostly by a heavy final term at SI. Still a hell of a lot to work to do before it’s all over, seven weeks and...
Blogging Fatigue
We do, perhaps, have a bit of blogging fatigue around these parts. For myself, spring is just a mere, what, 17 days away. Oh yeah. Can’t wait. Get this ugly, dirty snow outta here. Frank will be going into...
Death: No Big Deal
An acerbic columnist at The Guardian has a brilliant op-ed up which asserts that « death is no big deal »: ‘I lost a friend last week. These things happen — I’m bad at people...
Fascist Santa Fe Thugs Beat Gay Man
The news report provides murky details, but apparently a « vicious homophobic beating in Santa Fe has sent a gay man to intensive care and his attackers to jail »; ‘A man remained...
Intermittent Outages and Other Notes
Thanks to quite a few problems, some internal and some external, the folks over at « TextDrive », which is where all the AirBeagle sites reside, have had some problems the last couple of weeks. So...
Fight On, AARP!
The « AARP » has its own « Typepad » blog out; it’s dedicated to fighting the « disgusting and reprehensible Fascist campaign to discredit AARP and elderly...
The ONE Campaign
New on the blogroll: « The ONE Campaign »: ‘The ONE Campaign is a new effort to rally Americans to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. Through The ONE Campaign, each ONE...
Miscellaneous Beagle Pics
In which Beagle gets some Salon Treatment and takes a snowy walk in Winchell Park:
« Our Life in Michigan – Miscellaneous Beagle Pics »
Compare/Contrast Time Again
Then: ‘They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.’ — Benjamin Franklin Now: ‘Protecting national security must take precedence over...
Your Handy-Dandy Guide to the Higgledy-Piggledy-ness
Here’s how AirBeagle works: There are six domains in the AirBeagle family, AB.US, AB.org, AB.com, AB.biz, AB.net and AntiFascist.US, but only two are really used — .US and .biz. AntiFascist.US automatically...
Boeing Sells Three Plants
There’’s been a very curious transaction this week; « a Canadian company bought three Boeing plants in Kansas and Oklahoma » ‘Toronto-based conglomerate Onex Corp. is heading for...
Reach Out and Touch Us
E-Mail « Send us a note via e-mail » Snail Mail Steve Pollock 1443 Wisteria...
Internet Explorer Not Supported
AirBeagle is best viewed in Mozilla’s Firefox or Apple’s Safari or even Omniweb. It works in Opera and Netscape, just not as well. You’re on your own there. And for you Internet Explorer users: Break...
Disclaimer and Copyright
Except where noted by quotes and italics, all content is written, edited and issues forth from the feverish and fertile mind of AirBeagle. © 1999-2005, Some Rights Reserved. Licensed under a Creative Commons...
100 Things About AirBeagle
1. I was born in Roswell, NM, almost 20 years to the day after John Denver. Yes, THAT Roswell. No alien jokes necessary – I’ve heard ‘em all. 2. I am a Sagitarrius, but think it’s all mostly a...
RFID Company Gets Boost While School, Community Get Shaft
News from California: « An experiment with RFID badges for attendance purposes fails for a community school »: ‘It started with a girl who went home from junior high saying she felt like an...
Eric Blair, Laughing His Ass Off in His Grave
Yeesh. I go away for awhile and come back just in time to read « the most hypocritical, outrageous lies ever spoken by the Boy Emperor » ‘Referring to Putin’s recent steps to...
Blows Keep Falling
Sad news tonight: Following the deaths of « Arthur Miller », « Sandra Dee » and « John Raitt » comes the biggest blow: « Hunter S...
Skewering the Right
John Wooden of Chickenhead Productions scores big parody/satire points with two new websites, Sex is For Fags and Iron Hymen — abstinence-only sites for, respectively, boys and girls.
Rugby Scru-yum
I don’t know much about rugby, but I know « these boys are wearing nothing but socks » and said socks are not on their feet!
V-Day Was Here
« V-Day » came and went this year; next year, I hope we all pay more attention to it. ‘Because of your efforts V-Day, and the spirit, energy and movement to end violence against women and...
Secret Simon is No Pie Man
An excellent new blog, « Secret Simon », joins the fray; this one is about a ‘happily’ married man who decides he can’t suppress the truth about himself anymore and shares that...
Way to Go, Ohio
Boy, Ohio (or, to be more accurate, its loony legislature) just « doesn’t know when to stop », does it?
Forced Hiatus
I’m taking a blogging/web break. It was forced on me, but I’m actually not quicking much about it. A bad software update on my Mac from Apple (Motto: ‘Love the Computer, Hate the Company’) has...
Arthur Miller Passes
Sad news today: Another passing from the 20th Century American intellectual landscape. « Playwright Arthur Miller, 89, is dead »: ‘Arthur Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose...
Expense Roundup
Since I’m a total A-type (a for anal, that is), I created a spreadsheet with statistics on what the Jeep has cost us in gas. Just over the two-month mark and we’ve gone 1,061 miles, used 99.418 gallons of...
Yet More Hate Attacks on Gay Michigan Families
Caution: If you don’t like vitriolic, angry political rants, skip this entry. Consider yourself forewarned. Thank you. The Ann Arbor News (Motto: ‘We Have the World’s Worst Website’) is reporting...
How Stands the Union?
25 Short Stories Stephen Vincent Benet The Sun Dial Press, Garden City, NY, ©1943 University of Michigan Libraries Dewey 828 B465...
Our Imperial Corporate Flag
Adbusters.org has the true American Imperial Corporate flag. The government might as well go ahead and adopt it; it’s more true than anything else flying. Let’s let Adbusters say it: ‘Corporate America...
A Very Gay Experiment
Tired of living in loser countries that want to round you up in concentration camps and stone you to death based on fictional 5,000-year-old Jewish scrolls? Well then! « The Gay Kingdom of the Coral Sea...
I Helped Goering Cheat Hangman
Fascinating stories about ‘33-’45 still crop up even today. This time, it’s from a « former Nuremberg trial guard who says he helped Goering escape hangman » ‘A former guard...
Cafe Duran Squared
Cafe Ambrosia was Cafe Hungry Like the Wolf this afternoon. The guys behind the counter were apparently (from what I could gather) striking back at the pretense of a « rockist » critic from earlier...
Jesus Geek Superstar
The audacity, ignorance and outrageousness of « men like this » never cease to amaze me: ‘Marcavage never uses slurs to describe homosexuals; rather, he turns the word homosexual itself into...
Another Michigan Driver is Inaugurated
On the AP wire this afternoon we see a charming story about a « Four-year-old Michigan boy who drove to the video store » (and back) in the middle of the night: ‘A boy drove his...
The Hands-On Campaign to Fight Testicular Cancer
Early detection of testicular cancer is vital and being ‘body aware’ is an important part of that. Thanks to early detection, testicular cancer has a 95% cure rate, if caught early enough. So some UK...
Color-Coded Confusion
I’ve seen a few of those colored bracelets promoting causes around; I’ve even confiscated one from a fourth grader who was using it to highly annoy the girl in front of him. But there’s so many of them...
About to be Shocked Off the Bandwagon
The Grand Iraqi Election Which Proves the Emperor is Always Right has passed in a putrid fog of press adulation and fawning-ness, plus some ‘Ohmigod, what if he was right?!’ spineless sniveling among some...
The Rubes Shiver in the Cold, Waiting for Crumbs of Culture to Fall
Fancy that. An article on Page 3 of yesterday’s New York Times arts section on, of all things, little old Ann Arbor. Nothing laudatory or complimentary, of course; just the usual snide satisfaction the Times gets...
Gee, You Think?
Some woman from the committee for Super Bowl XL (here in Detroit in February 2006) was just on the news saying she knew Detroit “has some image problems.” I guess she meant the cold weather, because she went...
