I thought there was a problem with my layout in IE 7 for Windows. Unfortunately (or fortunately), it was entirely due to one stray right brace (“}”). Oops!
p.s. Don’t use Internet Explorer. Use Mozilla Firefox instead.
Much coverage today devoted to John Edwards’ global warming plan: from the SF Chronicle, for example. Not a very in-depth article, but it’s encouraging that (a) Edwards has a good plan and (b) it’s getting covered in the MSM.
Below is another article from “Environment & Energy Daily” (subscription only; it was forwarded to me) about John Edwards’ global warming plan.
I agree with the sentiment that this takeoff of Apple’s famed “1984” Macintosh commercial expresses about Hillary, though I humbly suggest we elect John Edwards instead.
Oy vey, I am now [but no longer as of about July 2007] the organizer of The Oakland John Edwards for President/One Corps Meetup—if you live in or near Oakland and want the United States to take steps to end poverty, curb global climate change, and make health care affordable and accessible to all people, then show up!
From the EULA for iTunes:
THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.
Uh, yeah.
From the letters column on a post about the U.S. Attorney scandal (read it) on Salon:
The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer, a psychology professor at the University of Manitoba. He says that it’s
about what’s happened to the American government lately. It’s about the disastrous decisions that government has made. It’s about the corruption that rotted the Congress. It’s about how traditional conservatism has nearly been destroyed by authoritarianism. It’s about how the “Religious Right” teamed up with amoral authoritarian leaders to push its un-democratic agenda onto the country. It’s about the United States standing at the crossroads as the next federal election approaches…. [it’s] an easy-ride journey through some relevant scientific studies I have done on authoritarian personalities….
And by “authoritarian personalities,” he doesn’t just mean authoritarian leaders–he also means authoritarian followers. He says John Dean (Watergate figure, Goldwater conservative, and author of Conservatives without Conscience) encouraged him to write it.
I haven’t finished reading it yet, but he doesn’t seem like a wingnut, so I’ll post this.
I guess I just decided to go ahead and launch the new site, moving it out of the wordpress directory and into the root directory (which seems somewhat analogous to getting it out of my dreams and into my car).
Yeah, so, here it is. I’m still dragging all the old entries into the database, for posterity’s sake, I guess, and because I’m a completist. And I am disabling the links page because I haven’t finished styling it or updating it with actual links. But, hey, now you can comment on my blog entries.
Oh, yeah, did I say “blog entries”? Yep. The anti-blog is dead; long live the blog. Read the old rationale.
Wow, pasting old anti-blog entries into this blog is quite a blast from the past. I’m trying to work from the past to the present, which is creating (so far) a big gap between a huge chunk of old entries and the few new entries I’ve added.
It is also reminding me how often I wrote in the old days, before I got old and jaded. Stuck in the youthfully exuberant entries from 2001 and 2002, I can only take solace in how little I’ve written in the last few years (meaning there’s less to paste into the “Write Post” screen).
Also, I wasn’t in the habit of titling my entries back then… but WordPress doesn’t work too well if you don’t give each post a title. So now I’m titling blog entries that I wrote 6 years ago. Weird.
Robert Salladay blogs California politics at the LA Times. He writes that — surprise, surprise — according to the Legislative Analysts’ Office, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was overly optimistic in his budget predictions.