Good Synopsis
I'm digging Dan Froomkin's column latetly. Here's today's: Miller's Big Secret
Friday, September 30, 2005
Not a Lot of Time
Busy day with not a lot of time for bloggin'.
A few things for me to check out and newsworthy items:
I need to learn more about TCP/IP
Delay is in trouble and loads of Political infighting ensues. I love it!
Judith Miller testified after 3 months in Jail. Don't know if I like the idea of making the media reveal its sources, but I definitely like the idea of Rove and Libby finally being called out on their unethical behavior. What ever happened to that anyway? Why isn't Rove fired? Baffling.
And didn't Cindy Sheehan get arrested the other day? What's she up to?
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Immature Poop Joke
I'm sorry, but Search the Solid Waste Information System is a very amusing web page title.
That's all I've got. Don't ask how I came across this.
WHoa! That's Cheap
Good news for the impoverished little tykes with this $100 laptop developed at MIT.
Roberts Confirmed
Roberts Confirmed
The Good People List:
Akaka (D-HI) Bayh (D-IN) Biden (D-DE) Boxer (D-CA) Cantwell (D-WA) Clinton (D-NY) Corzine (D-NJ) Dayton (D-MN) Durbin (D-IL) Feinstein (D-CA) Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry D-MA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Mikulski (D-MD) Obama (D-IL) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Sarbanes (D-MD) Schumer (D-NY) Stabenow (D-MI)
Rambling
How many times has Bush claimed to have caught or killed Osam's Third in Command? or Zarqaqi's #3?
I wonder. Probably several. You have to understand, though, that once one #3 is killed #4 becomes #3. So it's entirely possible that they just keep catching dudes when they're in that third slot. Known as the "shit-slot" 'round the q'aeda camp.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Abramoff
I don't know if you've been following the Abramoff case, but something about this is finally starting to seem a bit too insane to ignore.
Just the facts ma'am:
(1) The other day, 3 men are arrested for a murder that took place in 2001.
(2) The man they killed, Boulis, had recently been involved in a business deal with Abramoff in the sale of Boulis' fleet of Casino boats, SunCruz.
(3) According to the Miami Sun-Sentinel, "[one of the suspects] and his daughter, Jennifer, were paid $145,000 by SunCruz -- then controlled by Kidan and Abramoff -- for catering and other work, according to the civil court documents."
So let's see: Abramoff buys casino boat fleet. Abramoff pays mobster for catering services in the amount of $145,000. Guy Abramoff buys boats from is killed by caterer in gangland style murder. If there was a motive, this idiot would be in jail... but wait, "The slaying of Boulis came amid bitter legal fighting over the SunCruz sale, including a physical altercation in which Kidan told police that Boulis had attacked him with a pen, drawing blood."
That should do it for this lobbyist. Now how about the other 5 million of them? (Not the sierra club lobbyists of course, but, rather, the corrupt ones who go around killing people and stealing money from native Americans.)
Woo Hoo!
Similarity? Inarguable!
Here's the more comprehensive article in the washignton post: DeLay Indicted in Campaign Finance Probe.
DeLay has denied committing any crime and accused the Democratic district attorney leading the investigation, Ronnie Earle, of pursuing the case for political motives.
I have to say that I agree with Delay on this one. It's all these horrible Texas liberals that are just trying to take him down. Don't be concerned by his multiple links and ties to all things wrong in Washington. And remember, when they went after Clinton that wasn't political... wait a second... he didn't even do anything illegal. Hrm...
Delay is going down but I could be happier. I wish that this would clean up Washington, but it's only a start and will probably just serve as a distraction from all the other corruption, cronyism and nepotism going on down here (not to mention the just plain criminal behavior). This is just a drop in the bucket.
Krugman's Article from 9/26/2005
Working around the NYTimes Select, I'll post this Krugman OpEd:
Paul Krugman: Find the Brownie
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Near Miss
Finally, my inability to make a decision on whether or not to buy something pays off as Apple admits problems with iPod Nano.
I suppose I'll wait another month to buy one...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Back from SD
R and I just got back from SD a few hours ago. Pictures to come, but for now, some links that were part of the A Word A Day newsletter.
Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore
Computer Learns Grammar by Crunching Sentences
Fake Words in Dictionaries
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Libraries! Whoa!
Reminder for me to go to the DC MLK Public Library to pick up some books that I considered buying and then thought to myself, "wait a second... I feel like there's a way to read a book without having to pay for it...."
A Next Big Thing
I kept hearing the DJs on 6music talking about Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. I'm actually connected to this band through a coworker who is friends with them. I later found that their album has a 9.0 rating on Pitchfork. A note to self to check out: this interview on Tiny Mix Tapes
Photoshop Tutorials
Note to self: check out these photshop tutorials to see if they work in the gimp
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Typical District of Calamity Behavior
This town is so stupid: Mayoral Hopefuls Spar Over Rising Gas Prices
As though people really need to worry about buying gas in DC. Is this just to get the taxi-cab vote that they're doing this? Anyone can just drive across the bridge to VA for some cheap gas if they need to. Isn't the school system a wreck? Are we all like flies to a light for low gasoline prices? I don't give a flying whatnot about the price of gas. There. I said it. It's like sacrilege, I know.
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