http://www.illyria.org/blog No Handball Playing In This Area Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:20:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Thou art too bad to curse. All villains that do stand by thee are pure." ---Timon Of Athens, 4.3.362-63 http://www.illyria.org/blog/2008/08/08/shakespearean-daily-diss-536/ Finally got a half-decent photo of this shy bird who's recently reappeared after an absence of a few months. He flapped across the lake, and hung out long enough for me to prove it! This shot was taken at about two hundred yards, and I've hit the limit ... http://www.illyria.org/blog/2008/08/07/great-blue-heron/ "Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!" ---Timon Of Athens, 4.3.361 http://www.illyria.org/blog/2008/08/07/shakespearean-daily-diss-535/ It was simply not possible that the Republican Party would face no consequences for the mountain of death, failure and corruption that is the Bush Administration. Despite television's best efforts, new voters are showing some statistical awareness of Teh Suck: In several states, including the traditional battlegrounds of Nevada and ... http://www.illyria.org/blog/2008/08/06/gop-losing-ground-in-voter-registration/ China's legendary air pollution, a by-product of their rapid industrialization and failure to regulate, has been redefined as "mist" in what must be one of the most darkly amusing whoppers of the Beijing Olympic season: But yesterday Arne Ljungqvist, chairman of the IOC's medical commission, said he was confident that pollution ... http://www.illyria.org/blog/2008/08/06/and-the-carbon-monoxide-is-a-vitamin/ "Thou art the cap of all fools alive." ---Timon Of Athens, 4.3.360 http://www.illyria.org/blog/2008/08/06/shakespearean-daily-diss-534/ Two hours of drilling with a masonry bit sank the necessary holes to mount the Skamper-Ramp®, which is supposed to prevent li'l critters from drowning in the Cement Pond™. In retrospect, I probably could have finished the job sooner by bearing down harder with the drill, though it's a ... http://www.illyria.org/blog/2008/08/05/i-guess-thats-why-they-call-it-concrete/ "When there is nothing living but thee, thou shalt be welcome." ---Timon Of Athens, 4.3.357-58 http://www.illyria.org/blog/2008/08/05/shakespearean-daily-diss-533/ When banks deplete, you lose.  Reuters reminds us who's going to pay (and pay and pay) for the coming bank bailouts: U.S. consumers, meanwhile, are "shopped out" and saving less, while the Federal Reserve's performance in handling the crisis has been poor, [New York University Professor Nouriel] Roubini said, because it ... http://www.illyria.org/blog/2008/08/04/socialism-for-the-rich/ [caption id="attachment_1728" align="alignnone" width="420" caption=" "][/caption] "How has the ass broke the wall, that thou art out of the city?" ---Timon Of Athens, 4.3.351-52 http://www.illyria.org/blog/2008/08/04/shakespearean-daily-diss-532/