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Haircut Girl

Almost two years ago, I put up a post on this weblog entitled Haircut Boy, documenting my transition from dreadlocked rasta to short-haired square. It is my duty to inform my fair readers that my wife has joined me in squaresville.

1999 - Last year Melissa combed her hair
2004 - She finally cuts off her dreads

The dreads, this morning: Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3
Dreads locked off: Image 4 | Image 5 | Image 6 | Image 7
First time with short hair in 5 years: Image 8 | Image 9

Interesting trivia note: the same person who cut my dreadlocks off, our friend Angela, cut Melissa’s dreadlocks off as well.

Bush to spend more on inauguration than on helping the tsunami victims

“Stingy”: “Link:

The Bush administration yesterday pledged $15 million to Asian nations hit by a tsunami that has killed more than 22,500 people, although the United Nations’ humanitarian-aid chief called the donation ‘stingy.’

The war on terror will take center stage at next month’s second inauguration for President Bush in Washington, D.C.

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The estimated budget for the event is $30-40 million, but that will not cover security costs.

(Via Eschaton.)

UPDATE (01/01/05): The US has upped it’s offer from the initial amount of $15 million to $350 million (and Powell says it could go into the billions). Did this occur because US officials grossly misunderestimated the extent of the tragedy or because they were shamed into it? We’ll never know, but either way, it’s a failure of leadership.

Gingerbread House

Jalen & Melissa made this wonderful gingerbread house the other day. While the walls and ceilings are made of molasses-sweetened spelt gingerbread, all the candy is, <ahem> not quite so health-conscious.

Anyway, I just wanted to share this with all 3 of my readers out there. Merry Christmas, everyone!

CYBER CLAUS

CYBER CLAUS: “In the night of 12/24/07, though sensors woven through the very fabric of the house had thus far registered a complete absence of sentient bio-activity, I found myself abruptly summoned from a rare, genuine and expensively induced examples of that most priceless of states, sleep.

(Via Gibson Blog.)

The ZoomQuilt

Introducing the "Pop A Cap In Their Ass" rollcall

I’ve added a new, permanent feature to this blog. It’s the rollcall of names of people I think ought to have a cap popped in their ass. I’m christening it with the 3 conservative commentators I hate most: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly.

If you agree with me, great! If not, I could care less. I’m not trying to be politically correct. I’m simply making a list of people the world would be better off without, in my flawed and vindictive opinion. I will be adding more names as time goes by.

UPDATE (01/09/05): I took this down tonight. The wife felt it was rather mean-spirited. I guess that was the whole point in the first place, but no sense painting a target on my back, either.