Category: General Info
Guest articles welcome
Aug 22nd
Hello readers,
I'll be traveling for a few weeks and blogging when I can. If any of you have an issue you'd like to write about, please email me by clicking HERE with your proposed "guest posting".
Please include any bio information you would li… more »
Found: Oldest paintings in Western history
Jun 18th
see "Man Leads Archaeologists to Frescoed Tomb " (CBS News, 6/16/06)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/16/ap/world/mainD8I9H7O80.shtml
An 82-year old Austrian tour guide being questioned for possibly stealing artifacts led officials to a gro… more »
Invitation to readers
May 11th
For any of my readers who are interested contributing an article, short or long, for consideration as a "guest blog posting", please feel free to do so and e-mail me the submission at rossputin@rossputin.com
Please stick to subjects of regular discuss… more »
The original survivalists - 2000-year old Israeli tunnels
Mar 14th
Thanks to Christopher for this interesting link
Archaeologists Find Ancient Israel Tunnels, AP via Breitbart.com, Mar 13, 2006
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/13/D8GAVUF01.html more »
Don't criticize Cheney's energy plans
Feb 12th
This is what happens when you criticize Dick Cheney's relationship with Haliburton:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060213/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_hunting_accident more »
Yahoo, AOL to allow spam for a fee
Feb 6th
see "Yahoo, AOL to sell prompt mail delivery" (DNA India, 2/6/06)
http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1011600
Yahoo and AOL will allow bulk emailers to bypass users' spam filters and thus guarantee that bulk e-mail arrives in users' mailboxes for a… more »
The Seahawks were robbed
Feb 6th
This is the first (and maybe the last) time I mention sports on my blog, but I simply must go on a very tiny rant about how bad officiating should not be the difference in a game, especially the Super Bowl.
Think about these calls:
1) The questiona… more »
An incredibly bad mixed metaphor
Jan 8th
I had wanted to mention this a few days ago, and I can't even remember just what the issue was, but I recently heard the best (worst) mixed metahpor ever while listening to a politician on the radio:
"They have just sent a lightning rod across the bow… more »
Hypocrisy of the pious
Jan 5th
I don't know why I get so much enjoyment from stories like this....
"Okla. pastor arrested on lewdness charge" (AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1/5/06)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Pastor_Arrested.html
follow-up--- My friend Mi… more »
Beating annoying computer answering systems
Dec 16th
This is just too good....
http://www.paulenglish.com/ivr/
(Thanks to my friend BRH who is a self-professed "bad MF") more »
