Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Well, tomorrow, anyway. I'm about to head off to an undisclosed location for Turkey Day, so this'll have to do. It's the ultimate guy holiday - eat a lot of food, watch football, eat more food, and then lie around moaning about how dumb you were to eat that last slice of pie. Woohoo!
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 3:23 PM
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I wonder if it was really a good idea to
arrest a wanted Iraqi's family in his stead? I'm not saying it's not - I'm not on the ground there - I'm just, you know, saying.
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 3:10 PM
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Wow,
this is stupid.
You see, in technical parliance, slaving a component to something means taking that component, which ordinarily has an independent function, and linking it to something else, allowing the Master component to give it instructions, which it then carries out. For example, a computer's primary IDE/ATA Hard Drive is referred to as the Master Drive, while the secondary drive is referred to as the Slave, because all the instructions from the computer go to the Primary drive, which then relays it to the secondary.
The City of Los Angeles has decided that this is racist.
Actually, come to think of it, reading my own post, it does sounds kind of bad. Hmm.
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 3:08 PM
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Been pretty busy lately. You know how it is. Time available for blogging comes and goes...
Still time enough, however, to remember that I really like Billy Joel. I'd pretty much totally forgotten that guy's existence until I heard him playing the other day. Man,
Goodnight Saigon is awesome.
Allentown too. And
The Downeaster 'Alexa'. OK, I'm going to stop now. Really.
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 12:21 AM
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Crazy. It went back and forth for a while, and in the end, there's
no energy bill this year. As
Gregg Easterbrook points out, there were just too many compromises. By the time the Democrats had weeded out everything that promoted increased domestic production and the Republicans had removed everything in the vein of conservation, all that was left was a big ol' pile of pork. The bill was killed in the Senate in a disorganized
vote cutting across both partisan and geographic lines. The Northeastern Republicans joined with their Democratic counterparts to filibuster the bill, while farm state Democrats joined the Republicans in support. Votes in the west went basically along party lines, with the usual exception of John McCain taking the anti-pork vote and joining the filibuster.
No bill is definitely better than a bad bill. Congrats to the Senate for taking a principled stand. I do think this shows one thing, however - Tom Daschle's got to go. The Senate Minority Leader can't sell out his party for the promise of a billion dollars in ethanol subsidies. If we need to stick with a midwesterner, how about Tom Harkin (D-IA), or Dick Durbin (D-IL)? Those guys have some cajones. How did sissy-boy Daschle get to be the Dems' Senate leader, anyway?
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 12:09 AM
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