Via Doug, I just had to confirm what level of nerd I am.
My use of Windows hurt me I’m sure. heh
I must say I’m quite surprised. Evan Bayh has decided not to run for President.
“As you know I have been exploring helping the people of my state and our country in a different capacity,” he wrote. “After talking with family and friends over the past several days, I have decided that this is not the year for me to run for president and I will not be a candidate for the presidency in 2008.
“It wasn’t an easy decision, but it was the right one for my family, my friends and my state. I have always prided myself on putting my public responsibilities ahead of my own ambitions.”
He conceded the odds were against him, describing himself as a “relatively unknown candidate.”
I would also argue that the odds were against him because Democrats are looking for someone with a spine after far too many years of attempted triangulation and wishy-washiness.
But I’m glad to have him in the Senate (as long as he isn’t voting for tax cuts and bankruptcy bills, which I’m still pissed about). If he were to get the nomination or the VP nod we would have potentially had him replaced in a fresh election by a Republican or replaced by a republican governor. There aren’t many other Indiana Dems that could win a statewide Senate birth. I’d rather have his vote for Harry Reid and an overall Democratic senate than him in the Oval Office.
I used to like Michael Crichton. He was one of the authors my dad used to get me into reading. I loved (and still love) The Andromeda Strain and Sphere. Jurassic Park was great fun (and a fun movie). Congo was a fun read although weaker. But at some point he started going off the deep end, specifically as a Global Warming denier - to the point he wrote an entire book where the plot was that Global Warming was just a hoax engineered by environmentalists to get money. Yeahhhhhh Michael. Whaaaaaatever.
Well, now he’s officially Dead To Me. When an author retaliates against a scholar who has criticized him by making him a character who is a child rapist in his latest book, that’s off the deep end.
Too bad, I used to really respect his writing in a popcorn sci-fi/adventure sort of way.
I’m really fascinated by the proposal from Sen. Ron Wyden for our health care problems in this country. It’s probably the first completely new take on health care that I’ve seen in quite awhile.
I don’t really have the time (or the smarts) to analyze it so I’m just going to include the text of the chat CJ and I had about it after he pointed me to this story.
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RIP Peter Boyle, who died at age 71 today. I’ll always remember him most for his role in Young Frankenstein and the song and dance to “Puttin’ On The Ritz”. Brilliant brilliant comedy.
Stealing a meme from dad
The rules are to go into your blog archives and cut and past the first line of the first entry of each month (not counting memes and quizes). Then reflect…
- January: Well I’m back from my week+ away from work and computers.
- February: I’ll keep this short, but first thanks to CJ, Shawn, Noah and Cheryl for stopping by last night and checking out the new DL location we’ll start using next week.
- March: First heard about this at the Freakonomics blog. Turns out the interest generated by the Freakonomics post led to the company making SkyBOX to put out a web demo.
- April: Now this is interesting…. “This law will establish a voter reward random drawing every two years with a first prize of one million dollars or more.
- May: Hey kids, it’s the newest holiday sensation - Mission Accomplished Day!
- June: Royals Hire Tom Emanski To Teach Them Fundamentals Of Baseball
- July: Was at the big car show down on the Circle Saturday.
- August: Senator Bayh’s communications director answered Kos about Evan Bayh Day:
- September: It’s time I get back on the blogging horse.
- October: Well apparently the Indiana DNR is considering letting an Evansville based coal mining company mien for coal in the Glendale Fish and Wildlife Area.
- November: Tonight is Drinking Liberally!
- December: Dear Evan Bayh, What. The. Fuck?
Pretty typical. Mostly political with a bit of meta and a bit of sports splashed in.
Takign a cue from Doug Masson, I integrated Google Reader’s share option with the website to create a news of interest bar on the left sidebar.
So for links I see in RSS that don’t warrant a post or an aside link I can click “share” in Reader and they will show up in the bar to the left there. It shows the latest 10 shared links and will include stuff from politics to science to nerdy gaming links.
An actual quote from Tom DeLay about why he started his blog.
When was the last time the Republicans or conservatives attacked the left for their outrageous comments or outrageous activities? We don’t attack.
Yes Tom, no one from the right EVER attacks the terrorist loving, god hating, homosexual agenda pushing, baby killing, soldier hating left.
Via CJ in IM
