Monthly Archives: September 2004

A New Civil Right

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Jessa Crispin apparently has been reading the Republican platform (94 pages). To be honest I haven’t read a party platform in years and, while I suspect that there is a tremendous amount of bloggable material in each parties platform, I don’t plan to start now. In a nutshell, they are laundry lists of things the federal government shouldn’t be involved in at all.
However, I agree with both Jessa and Jaquandor that this item from page 56 is strangely put:

Our Party believes, as does the President, that reading is the new civil right.
The new civil right? Puzzling to say the least.
Now the goal they set in the next sentence seems reasonable on the surface:
Every child must be able to read by the end of the third grade.
But I am sure that there are some children who, though capable of reading, just will not progress that fast.

Using Coral to Link Large Files

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Keywords has created a handy tool for those of you that might want to link large files:

I’ve created a handy bookmarklet you can use to instantly get the Coral version of a link. This should allow even the smallest of web content publishers to post large movies, graphics, etc. and not worry about their webserver going down due to excessive traffic.
Read the rest and get the bookmarklet at Keywords.

Simplifying the Tax Code?

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When w says:

In a new term, I will lead a
bipartisan effort to reform and simplify the federal tax code.
He apparently means to make room for more special interest loopholes:
…we’ll provide tax relief and other incentives to attract new business, and improve housing and job training to bring hope and work throughout all of America.
…
We will offer a tax credit to encourage small businesses and their employees to set up health savings accounts, and provide direct help for low-income Americans to purchase them.
Seems like more of the same old, same old to me.
Thanks to Atrios for the early look at the w’s presentation.