Wizbang: December 2005 Archives

2005 - The Year In Pictures

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 31, 2005 · Comments (3)

In a full year of posts at Wizbang we use more than our fair share of pictures. I've been fiddling around setting up the Wizbang Photo Gallery, so it seemed like a good excuse to make the first gallery: 2005 - The Year In Pictures Keep checking back over the... [Full Story]

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Idiots in Napa Flood AGAIN

Posted by Paul · Published: December 31, 2005 · Comments (87)

The people of the Napa Valley are just stupid. Who would live in a place that floods every few years? If you've watched any cable news you know that Napa is flooding. Again. Just as it did in 1984, 1986, 1996 and 1997. Authorities are worried that people who live... [Full Story]

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Putting the "Young" in Brigham Young and his heirs

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 31, 2005 · Comments (21)

Massachusetts' governor, Mitt Romney, recently announced that he was not running for a second term. Instead, he's looking into running for president. That, apparently, has a lot of Democrats worried. In fact, they're so worried, they had one of their "deputy research directors" in Washington send a bunch of requests... [Full Story]

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Carnival of the Trackbacks XLIV

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 31, 2005 · Comments (0)

Reader recommended stories for Saturday, December 31, 2005: Want To Participate?... [Full Story]

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Loving the great divide

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 31, 2005 · Comments (12)

One of the things that most amazes me about politics is how, sometimes, the most profound long-term consequences of a great political victory is linguistic; how it can literally reshape the language, the very way we speak. I once read that the single greatest never-noticed change of the Civil War... [Full Story]

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Early New Year's Resolutions...

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 31, 2005 · Comments (9)

I resolve never to be thankful that a 4-year-old takes a 3 1/2 hour nap in the afternoon during "quiet time." no matter how peacefully quiet the afternoon is. You try getting the little @$#%!er to bed at 8:30PM after a power nap like that... Anyone else?... [Full Story]

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A Question of Timing

Posted by Paul · Published: December 30, 2005 · Comments (17)

Note: This is an explainer for Kevin's earlier piece on the UK "torture memos." Remember back during the campaign every time the liberals got bad news they offered the same tired rebuttal, "We question the timing of...." I wonder if they've asked themselves that same question over the UK "torture... [Full Story]

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Why this agnostic WASP is a Zionist

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 30, 2005 · Comments (35)

Earlier this week, I spent a little time going after the Palestinians who organized the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, as sorta-kinda retold by Steven Spielberg in his latest movie. In the comments, I was chastised by several folks, including cat and Steve Crickmore. That... [Full Story]

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Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 30, 2005 · Comments (102)

It's Friday, which means it's time for the Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™. Enter your best caption for the following picture: Winners will be announced Monday evening (due to the holiday). Update: Winners announced. Click the link to read the winning entries. The contest is now closed.... [Full Story]

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Please come with me, sir; I believe you know the way...

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 30, 2005 · Comments (4)

I gotta agree with the Boston Herald on this one. Some guy violating his bail and getting re-arrested is nothing new. But this moron from Framingham has to have set the record for not wasting time in doing so...... [Full Story]

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Bloggers Strikeout On UK Torture Memos

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 30, 2005 · Comments (19)

[Note: Check the updates for links to prior publication of these "exclusives," and follow the listed trackbacks and this followup piece for more backstory.] Lefty UK bloggers, Blair watchers, and now Daily Kos are trumpeting their coordinated release (or rather mirroring) of two documents from a forthcoming book by UK.... [Full Story]

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Picture Of The Day - Howard Dean Knows Where You've Been Edition

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 29, 2005 · Comments (25)

Until Tuesday, the NSA site created two cookie files that do not expire until 2035 -- likely beyond the life of any computer in use today. NSA Web site places 'cookies' on computers - [AP]... [Full Story]

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Housing Bubble Bursting... Or Not

Posted by Paul · Published: December 29, 2005 · Comments (12)

I'm not an expert in the housing market but I bet I know more than the reporters who are writing of the bursting of the housing market "bubble" today. For example: US home sales data signal end to boom Sales of existing US homes dropped 1.7 percent in November while... [Full Story]

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Iraq and the 60's

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 29, 2005 · Comments (3)

Discarded Lies is a pretty damned good site. It's unfortunate that it's largely known as a "second home" for some of the Little Green Footballs crowd, and it's so much more. It provides a great deal of analysis and thought on a variety of topics, and while the style is... [Full Story]

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LA Times Burned By Fake Press Release

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 29, 2005 · Comments (8)

Newspapers are filled with carpal-tunneled wretches, overworked and underpaid, who suffer near-pathological allegiance to getting it right. * Tuesday's cover story in The Los Angeles Times, by Times Staff Writer Julie Cart, on the on the plight of federally protected Canadian gray wolves contains a bombshell quote from Wyoming Gov.... [Full Story]

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Milblog of the week

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 29, 2005 · Comments (6)

MilBlog of this week is Combat Medic In Iraq, the online accounts of Josh Spano, a 19-year-old Army combat medic spending a year in Mosul, Iraq. Josh (good lord, he's HALF my age -- I feel so old) has some amazing stories -- such as meeting the brother of a... [Full Story]

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Now it's time to enjoy the donuts, Fred...

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 29, 2005 · Comments (45)

With the passing of Michael Vale, most famous for portraying Fred the Baker in Dunkin' Donuts commercials for 15 years (as well as a stint in the 70's as Sam Breakstone in some cottage cheese ads), I was put in mind of other corporate mascots and spokesmen. And right now... [Full Story]

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Barbarians At The Gate

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 28, 2005 · Comments (23)

Townhall's Kathleen Parker play's pinata with a hornet's nest in an article about the new enemy of a decent and civilized society, bloggers. Most bloggers, she claims, are the angry offspring of narcissism's quickie marriage to instant gratification. Update: In the comment section Phinn points out a Pajama-esqe winner:Newspapers are... [Full Story]

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Simplifying matters

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 28, 2005 · Comments (5)

I've written a couple of times about Evandro Doirado, the man accused of kidnapping a mother and her two-year-old son, raping the mother repeatedly over the course of a couple of days, until the woman managed to plea for help and police rescued her. After his arrest, it came out... [Full Story]

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Bonfire of the Vanities #130

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 28, 2005 · Comments (13)

The Bonfire of the Vanities (a self-submitted collection of the worst posts by otherwise excellent bloggers) is hosted by Overtaken by Events this week. It's a year-end extravaganza of suckage, featuring appearances by some noted media whores... Visit The Bonfire If you want to be reminded to enter the Bonfire... [Full Story]

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Minor Site Changes In Advance Of Major Changes

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 28, 2005 · Comments (4)

There's lots of fixes going on behind the scenes at Wizbang as I prepare to open user diaries (ala RedState and Kos), and add other new sections under the Wizbang name. As you're probably aware the Wizbang Podcast section is now open (using a generic layout), and there are several... [Full Story]

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Strangely enough, I have just what you need at home...

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 28, 2005 · Comments (3)

A word to the wise for people who buy brand-new laptop computers on the street for $400.00: If you want a power adapter for it, buy it online or write down the model number of the computer, then go shopping. Don't take the computer into the store with you. Especially... [Full Story]

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DeLay Gets High Court Hearing On Dismissal

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 28, 2005 · Comments (7)

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (the state's highest criminal court) agreed to hear U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay's request for dismissal of the money laundering and conspiracy indictments brought by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle. His attorney's also petitioned for the court to order an immediate trial charges pending... [Full Story]

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The seductive cult of eternal victimhood

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 28, 2005 · Comments (11)

Steven Spielberg's latest masterpiece, Munich, is looking more and more like it's tanking. And good riddance. But by making a movie about something so relatively recent, it's allowed people who actually took part in the events to comment -- and those comments are most enlightening. The attack on the Olympic... [Full Story]

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Peering into my crystal ball

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 28, 2005 · Comments (9)

Last weekend, Stephen McCracken of Willisms.com hosted the regular Pundits Roundtable. This time, though, instead of inviting bloggers to comment on a question or two, he invited anyone to e-mail him their entries. I've been invited a couple of times, and participated once, so I thought it would be fun... [Full Story]

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