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So I’m doing another bullet-point list. (Quit whining and read, dammit!)

• The Onion discusses a potential downside to Massachusetts marriage equality. As is standard for The Onion, it’s quite good.
• A recent post on a Wikipedia mailing list pointed me to “What Makes a Fuckhead?“; this should be required reading for anybody with any administrative function on any Internet-based system.
• A New York Times food critic posts an elegant defense of fine dining. A bit over the top, perhaps, but it’s a lesson we can all take to heart.
• The latest Fuckchop Administration scandal - the March 6 2003 Justice Department memo that claims a wartime President is exempt from various laws - gives us this Houston Chronicle editorial, this intriguing post on a blog I’m going to have to read regularly (thank you RSS!), and this .torrent of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’s response.
• David Sirota, writing in In These Times mag, has decided that, when it comes time to vote, ignorance isn’t bliss - and he backs up his argument with publicly available fact. (For those of you who keep finding me through Google searches for “sexy David Sirota”, this could be a lovely link for you.)
• Bruce Sterling, writing in Wired mag, argues against letting politicians dictate scientific progress.
• In case you haven’t heard, Ronald Reagan died last week. Amidst the usual polemics and “Gipperporn” and shameless leeching, you may want to read a few extra pieces: one on Reagan’s REAL legacy, one on how the end of the Cold War wasn’t entirely Reagan’s doing, and the obligatory “thanks for fucking up the response to AIDS“.
• I have May’s search query results in, and they’re interesting (to say the least). Post with details is forthcoming.
• It looks like Ed’s GF J* will be getting a dog, but since her lease disallows pets, said dog will be staying at our place. And it also looks like I’ve talked them into a Boston Terrier. Yay! Now to angle for a cool name… I like “Rufus” (rejected), “Max” (rejected), “Tico” (as in the song “Tico no fubá”; the jury is still out on this name), and “Baxter” (not yet suggested, but will be shortly; thanks R*). Hopefully they’ll have the dog in time for me to borrow its je ne sais quoi for Pride.
• In looking for a link to a recent post on the stLouIST, I stumbled across the Terror Alert Banana:
  
  Too, too funny. [Update 20040622 14:41: d'oh! forgot to link back. fixed now, sorry.]
• Margaret Cho writes about one of the more political Elvis Costello songs, Shipbuilding. Very nice.
• Alas! Tangerine could be closing! DON’T DO THIS TO US, BLAKE!!! I still can’t bear the untimely loss of the Hungry Buddha…
• Carl of the FoolBlog reports here that he now has the most famous picture of a taco in the world. Of course, Carl, it could be more famous… we could always associate the phrase “giant fucking taco” with your mascot pics. (which could be interesting.)
• Finally, the usual hypercynical geek rant: Keep your anti-virus definitions and your firewall and your OS up-to-date, or get off the damned Internet.

Ouch. I should be done for now. Remember, a review of May’s search queries is forthcoming.