To my knowledge, Frank J. has never had a Christmas themed banner before. Of course, he’s never had cobloggers or left somebody like me with admin. rights at Christmas either. So, I thought a seasonal modification would add some visual festivity. I know, some IMAO purists will say the NTM-IMAO banner is sacrosanct, but I think an insane snowman wielding a ninja sword is in keeping with the spirit of both the season and IMAO.

Thanks to Cadet Happy for making the image pretty close to spec. Snow on the letters might have been overkill anyway.

I’d have thought the idea that the Media was biased to the left was fairly obvious(except to the Left who call it the SCLM or ‘So-Called Liberal Media”) but some eggheads did a study to see if it was anyway.
And it is. Color me shocked. Whatever color that might happen to be.

Does everyone like the way I’ve improved the IMAO blog logo?

I thought so.
Now… what else to tinker with…

I’ve been left with the keys to the IMAO kingdom. I hope I don’t mess anything up too bad.
My main task Frank left me with was to set up the Pajamas Media Ads on IMAO. Things look like they are set up ok but let me know if the blog acts skwonky.
I wonder what else I could get away with…

Nothing grabs my attention like a line like this.

These days, it takes only one small and insignificant explosion to run (sic) your weasel experiments.

Rather funny weasel related humour (he’s British) foullouws at The Trouser Quandary Resolution .

Can an agnostic truly and definitively know, without a shadow of a doubt that they indeed are actually an agnostic?
If not, would that make them instead a skeptic?
I’m not so sure.

Frank and Sarah are having the big wedding shindig today.
I was invited, and really wanted to go, but I had to decline. I had some family matters I had to take care of.
But apparently they are going to go ahead and have the thing anyway. Some of the other IMAO bloggers are going to be there, sort of a consolation prize I guess.
Congratulations Frank and Sarah! Thanks for soldiering on without me.
Wedding Roundup:
Bridezilla?
Congratulations, you’re dead.
When Bloggers Marry

Voting Update: Aside from a few who have more votes than us, we are utterly and totally destroying all the competition, with extreme prejudice! Thanks!
Remember a true IMAO-erican will vote daily from every computer they have access to.
I made some crappy looking mods to the ‘official’ 2005WA graphics, since we are nominated for two, count ’em TWO awards. Here they are in all their crappiness!

Ps: clicking the images will take you to the appropriate award voting post.

Interesting Poll finds broad approval of terrorist torture.

Most Americans and a majority of people in Britain, France and South Korea say torturing terrorism suspects is justified at least in rare instances, according to AP-Ipsos polling.

How about that? Even the Franch!
Note that Frank wrote this a few weeks ago.

I don’t like terrorists and I don’t know them, so they fit my strict guidelines for torture. They should be beaten, electrocuted, have bamboo shoots stuck under their fingernails, and anything else you can think of.

Ok, so by now you are thinking the same thing I am thinking. As the last few days pass before his (and of course Sarahk’s) wedding, is this the dawning of the Great Frankening which was foretold in prophecy?

Umm… there’s also the Weblog Awards: Where we are nominated for something called Best Podcast.
And also something called Best Humor/Comics Blog
Yay!