Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

For over two days my router’s been logged into the wrong network.
I’ve gotten absolutely zero help from SBC’s tier 1 support in getting it fixed (first call: A trouble ticket. Second call: Routed back into voice mail hell).
And you know what the problem was?
They changed the login protocol for static IP logins and didn’t bother to tell anyone. Yes. All I had to do was log the router out and log it back in from a slightly different email address.
Fucktards. It’s a damn good thing I’m not shopping for T3 service here in Indy like I was a year and a half ago for my employer. SBC would not even be on my long list, let alone my short list.
The upsetting thing is that this is the first serious problem I’ve had with them in a year, and they failed the customer support test big time. And since I won’t do business with Bombast, er, Comcast, I’m sort of stuck with SBC DSL.

Nice. If you can read this, it means SBC have gotten around to putting me back on the CORRECT FUCKING SUBNET.
Until they do, I’m screwed.

James Lileks ought to switch to Dish Network.
(I also like what he has to say about the second coming of bin Asshole.)

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I’m beginning to think Michael Ledeen is right. We should assist the revolution in Iran first. There’s nothing like striking while the iron is hot.
Maybe that would distract Saddam’s attention.

Melana Zyla Vickers writes about lefty reaction to the new National Security Strategy over on Fox.
Some of these old lefties just don’t get it:

“If the American military appears able to win victories at low cost, war might become a preferred instrument of diplomacy rather than an instrument of last resort. This situation would lead to an unhealthy militarization of American foreign policy,” warns Clinton-era NSC director for defense policy and arms control Hans Binnendijk, in the preface to a book he has edited on military transformation.

Or maybe, you incredible pissant, if the American military is able to win victories at low cost, OTHER COUNTRIES WILL THINK TWICE BEFORE THEY FUCK WITH US.
Read the whole thing.

Weapons of mass destruction? Us? No habla inglais, Senor.

…on why Augusta National membership should remain a male-only enclave.
Go, Hootie.

Here is a construction that is getting very old:

If there’s a recession in 2004, it won’t be Bill Clinton’s fault.

Maybe not. But it won’t be W’s fault, either. Economies don’t make bootleg U-turns. I would be inclined to say that if the economy is still in the tank in 2004, there will still be lingering effects of two years of Dem “leadership” in the Senate involved.
I’m just sick and tired of hearing this shit. Nobody knows what anything is going to look like in two years. So just shut the fuck up about it, Mr. Bartley, OK? Concrete proposals are a lot more productive than this Cassandra wail.

Fox reports that al-Jazeera is airing a tape of “a voice said to be Usama bin Laden”.
Please. Video of bin Asshole with the front page of the New York Times from sometime in the past two weeks is required before disbelief can be suspended.
That boy is bloody ooze in a collapsed cave in Tora Bora and ain’t much going to change my mind about it. Especially nothing that shows up on al-Jazeera.
Al-Qaeda are getting desperate if this is the best they can do.