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Meet Miguel. He’s got balls!

Web sites come and web sites go, but with a little effort you can pull an old one out and show it off. Kind of like a grand parent’s brag book I suppose. Where were you when Republicans were touting a Revolution instead of trying to quash one?

Today I tackled a little project I’ve been meaning to for a long time. What finally got me moving was the addition of an extension to my Firefox web browser called ScrapBook which gives me the ability to download an entire web page, or web site, to my computer. One may find many reasons for saving a copy of a web site, but my motivation was to try and correct a terrible oversight on my part many years ago. I simply forgot to keep copies (or I subsequently lost my copies) of web sites I authored in the 1990s.

Fortunately, the world wide web has a pretty good memory and considerably better facilities for remembering ancient web sites than I do. (Hey, 1995 is virtually Iron Age, web-wise.) So, after installing my nifty new browser extension, I headed over to The Wayback Machine and recovered a copy of my first web site. After a bit of reworking the links and code in my old pages I was able to reconstruct my initial contribution to the World Wide Web; such as it is. While www.nguworld.com may no longer exist as a working domain, its content now lives on here at www.golfront.org, pretty much exactly as it looked in 1995.

This is as it should be, as you’ll see if you check it out. It was that content that eventually inspired my current domain name. It also inspired a little enmity from the targets of my ire at the time. I offer no apology though, even after more than a decade. Quite the contrary, they deserved it and I’m proud of the barbs I tossed, even if the presentation seems primitive by current standards. I just hope that I can bring golfront.org up to the standard of the ideas that inspired it.

This silly commercial is just too funny not to share. I think they should give some credit to the movie A Fish Called Wanda though. I remember my dad busting a gut over a similar scene in that movie. I wish he were here to enjoy this too.

Well, it looks like the 2008 Presidential campaign is really starting to heat up. Although Hillary Clinton may ultimately deserve much of the credit, Fred Thompson and Dennis Kucinich are also causing voters to look at candidates in a whole new light. Specifically, attention is turning from the candidates, to their spouses. Enquiring Americans want to know whether their next President’s spouse will cross the White House threshold sporting a cigar, or a tongue stud.

While this angle parodies the Searching for meaningless leitmotif that will surely characterize lamestream media campaign coverage; in this case I think it serves to brighten up an otherwise dreary field of poseurs, cretins, and imbeciles. (Ron Paul being the exception that proves the rule, of course.) I’ll simply enjoy it as an entertaining sidebar before getting back to issues that are really important. I hope you enjoy the video as much as I did.

Well, I guess it’s official now. Apparently a new poll indicates that meaningless bullshit will once again be the deciding factor in the upcoming Presidential election. (See video report below.) This comes as no surprise, I suppose. After all, Americans have a long tradition of concentrating on meaningless bullshit - as anyone who’s spent any time in a grocery store checkout line can attest. So it’s only natural that meaningless bullshit would dominate their electoral choices as well.

Perhaps some enterprising candidate will capitalize on this by choosing Britney Spears or Nicole Richie for their running mate. Hey, mom’s are big in America too! Anyhow, gotta go now - E.T. is coming on soon.