In a move displaying utter contempt for our system of checks and balances, the House voted today to pass the Pledge Protection Act, which would strip the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, of their ability to hear legal challenges to the Pledge of Allegiance: This afternoon, the U.S. House voted 247-173 to approve the [...]
Archive for September 23rd, 2004
We Don't Need No Steenking Courts
Posted in Church & State on September 23, 2004 | 11 Comments »
Vegas, Baby! (Days 2-3)
Posted in I do too have a life on September 23, 2004 | 8 Comments »
Tuesday: Tuesday started off with boring conference/work type stuff. As before, it was a conference, but I did manage to get some useful information relevant to my job, so it was worthwhile. The rest of the story follows (with some language and content warnings — caveat lector [KTK needs to make sure that the Latin [...]
Bush Failure Updates
Posted in Church & State, Legal Issues, Politics, Terrorism on September 23, 2004 | 2 Comments »
It’s hard to keep on top of the almost-hourly failures, lies, outrages, and scandals of this putrid administration. “Peskyfacts” accumulates and catalogs them for you – if you can stand to look at it. (If you’re a real glutton, they have an e-mail notification service as well.) It gives a continuously updated listing of noteworthy [...]
Ashcroft Comes Alive
Posted in Satire on September 23, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Chris Clarke, of “Creek Running North” has a great parody of Cat Stevens’s “Father and Son”, reflecting Yusuf Islam’s recent travel travails. Check it out.
Five Things to Make You Smile
Posted in Flame Bait on September 23, 2004 | 1 Comment »
OK, it’s not really the weekend yet, but I’m bored and procrastinating like a bad mother. So I stumble across the “list of lists of fives” generated by Merlin Mann (SF geek celeb who talks about himself, like, a lot – but has some interesting things to say). It’s a long collection of lists of [...]
Diebold Machines Easily Changed
Posted in Politics on September 23, 2004 | 2 Comments »
This does not make me feel confidant: The trick was uncovered by Herbert Thompson, director of security technology at Security Innovation and a teacher of computer security at the Florida Institute of Technology. Thompson has authored several nonfiction books on computer security and co-authored a new novel about hacking electronic voting systems called The Mezonic [...]
God Save us From Journalists
Posted in Culture on September 23, 2004 | Comments Off
This story was on the front page of my local rag yesterday. It is a description of the two different messages the Kerry and Bush campaign are peddling about the situation in Iraq. It does a good job of explaining why the two camps have chosen their particular tack, and a good job pointing out [...]
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