Category: Humor

It’s not uncommon for web applications to fetch key dependencies from remote, public CDNs. Why host Angular or jQuery yourself, when Google will do it for you? That, at least, was part of the logic underpinning this old code Dan found.

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="js/vendor/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>')</script>
<script src="js/jquery.js"></script>

First, we fetch the jQuery 1.9.1 library from Google. Then, we add another script, and check: if window.jQuery is defined, great- but if not, we load a local version of the 1.9.1 jQuery library. Then… we unconditionally load an unversion-tagged version of the jQuery library.

“I like a dev who double-checks everything,” Dan writes. “Even triple-checks are fine.”

There’s just one note on those triple-checks, Dan notes.

But here’s the first line of the “js/jquery.js” file:
/*! jQuery [email protected] jquery.com | jquery.org/license */

Dispatches from SNN (Slobovian News Network)

A world-famous political dadaist says voters are so restless that America could be ripe for third party rule.

Internationally known political dadaist Dr. Phlimflam Manne says that with so many American voters unhappy about Donald Trump and President Joe Biden being the likely front runners for the 2024 Presidential election, the conditions are ripe for third party rule.

Dr. Manne is currently the head of the Political Science Department and chief mixologist at Little Willie’s Bar and University. He says that, in fact, a powerful third political party could step in and win the next election.

There are many third parties on the political horizon, he said, and then ran off the following list of potential parties and their possible candidates:

1. The Donald Trump Party — ”An indictment in every pot” — candidate: Donald Trump.
2. The X party — candidate: Elon Musk.
3. The American Vigilante Party — candidate: Jason Aldean.
4. The Barb Wire Party — candidate: Texas Governor Gregg Abbott.
5. The Everything for Everybody All At Once Free Party — candidates: AOC and Bernie Sanders.
6. The Devil Went Down to Georgia Party — candidate: MTG.
7. The Anybody But DeSantis Party — candidate: Mickey Mouse.
8. The Nobody Goes to Jail Party — candidate: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
9. The Smash and Grab Party — candidate: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
10. The View Woman’s Party — candidates: Kamala Harris and Whoopi Goldberg.
11. The Bite the Hand That Feeds You Party — candidate: Liz Cheney.
12. The Did I Say That? Party — candidates: RFK Jr. or Steve Urkel.
13. The American Idiots Party — candidate: George Costanza.
14. The Cornell West Party — candidates: Cornell West or Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable.
15. The Taylor Swift Party — candidate: Taylor Swift
16. The Foot in Your Mouth Party — candidate: Kanye West.
17. The Fox News Channel Party — candidate: Greg Gutfeld.
18. The MSNBC Party — candidate: Rev. Al Sharpton.
19. The Pink Party — candidate: Barbie.
20. The Petrie Dish Party — candidate: A lab-generated politician.
21. The Artificial Ignorance Party — candidate: Hoiman (already declared).
22. The Whoooooo Party — candidate: Ric Flair.

SNN Words to Live By

“Love is a devastating disease, instantly cured by marriage.” — Det. Lenny Brisco (Jerry Orbach), Law and Order TV series.

“If good looks was a minute, you could be an hour.” — The Temptations, The Way You Do the Things You Do, 1964 song.

“When it gets hot, people try to kill each other.” — Detective Oscar Grace (J. A. Preston), Body Heat, 1981 film.

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Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Constitution received two amazing honors in 2006, winning both a Pulitzer Prize and the Reuben award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. This was the second Pulitzer for Luckovich; his first was awarded in 1995. He had previously received the Reuben award for Editorial Cartooning in 2001, but this was his first time to be named the overall outstanding cartoonist by a group of his peers. The Reuben awards are distributed each year by the National Cartoonists Society and are considered professional cartooning’s highest honor.

Impressive as these achievements are, they are only the latest in a long line of awards for Luckovich. He was a runner-up for the Pulitzer in 1987 before garnering the 1995 win.  In 1989, he won the Overseas Press Club’s award for the “Best Cartoons on Foreign Affairs for 1989,” and in 1991, he was awarded the National Headliners award for editorial cartoonists. In 1994, a Luckovich cartoon was selected by voters in a Newsweek magazine poll as one of the four best editorial cartoons of the year.

After freelancing and selling life insurance to make ends meet following his graduation from the University of Washington in 1982, Luckovich landed his first cartooning job at the Greenville News in South Carolina. After nine months at the News, Luckovich was hired by The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, where he stayed for four years before moving on to Atlanta.

Luckovich’s cartoons, syndicated nationally by Creators Syndicate, appear in more than 350 daily publications, including The Washington Post,The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Denver Post, Newsday, New York Post, The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, The Dallas Morning News, the Boston Globe, the Seattle Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Nashville Tennessean and the Houston Chronicle, and are reprinted regularly in Time, Newsweek and the New York Times.

Luckovich and his wife, Margo, have four children. His hobbies include exercising and collecting unique ties.