Workplace Blues
Sugerfused has been stressed the for the last day or two. Things will get better.
Monthly Archives: October 2003
A thought for today
The size of this country never ceases to amaze me. I know that many on the West coast were not as deeply affected by 9/11 as those of us here in East coast by virtue simply of proximity. It now amazes me how little it seems to weigh in here on the East coast that Southern California is going up in flames.
From The Kitchen Cabinet.
Update: Hanah’s answer:
The western United States has burned down once a year since I started paying attention to the news. They’ve used up their sympathy on forest wildfires, and now that it’s threatening large numbers of people, we’re innured to it.
Smooth Cruising
Tired of having that traffic light turn red as you are approaching. You might want to buy one of these.
Via The Blog of the Century.
Late Night Reading
I’m a couple days late catching up with the latest edition of the Carnival of Capitalism.
James Lileks starts of with Chernobog and then rolls right into a discussion of the music of Fantasia. I find the Rite of Spring much more human then Lileks does.
The Curmudgeonly Clerk has a run in with a Tarantula.
Good Night!
White House Hoist on the Patriot Act?
Maybe.
Samual Dash argues that the perps who leaked Plame’s identity appear to have violated at least 2 sections of the Patriot Act and should, under the act, be considered domestic terrorists.
Furthermore, Dash then suggests the additional set of tools that the Justice Department could be bringing to bear:
Can they treat this investigation differently from any other terrorist investigation? Under the Patriot Act, they have acquired expanded powers to wiretap and search. Will they place sweeping and roving wiretaps on White House aides? Will they engage in sneak, secret searches of their offices, computers and homes? Will they arrest and detain incommunicado, without access to counsel, some White House aides as material witnesses?
Certainly, nobody expects they will and I hope they would not employ such police-state tactics.
While no law enforcement officials should have police-state tools at their disposal the current administration is certainly a deserving target if said tools are going to be used against anyone.
The entire article is worth a read.
Via Talkleft.