Monthly Archives: May 2006

New WordPress Plugin: Uncheck Your Default Category

Every time I start to write a blog post it’s become almost second-nature for me first to scroll down to the bottom of the long list of categories, and uncheck “Uncategorized.” Tonight I decided I was tired of doing that, so I wrote a little plugin that unchecks your default category for you, if you [...]

Where Are the Skeptics When You Need Them?

It’s good to know Tom Hanks, star of the new movie The Da Vinci Code, isn’t being pestered by his fellow worshipers:

Something Spammy Going On

Normally I get two or three instances of trackback spam per day here. So far just today I’ve gotten about 300. I’m not the only one; chatter on the WordPress support forum and Technorati seems to indicate there’s a huge wave of it across the blogosphere.

Journalists, Adrift, on the Holy See

A while back Richard John Neuhaus suggested that maybe not all journalists are thoroughly educated about religion.

Not That You Needed Proof . . .

. . . but here’s more evidence that Massachusetts is a one-party state. Apparently, Republicans will let anybody on the ticket: Ted Kennedy’s Republican challenger is claiming that Kennedy isn’t liberal enough. Kenneth Chase, a language school owner from Belmont, said Kennedy _ and not the Republican presidents who launched each war _ was responsible [...]