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Quick links
- Clever bailout commentary
- An interesting history of Shinseki
- Media entraps cops! -He might have opened up a mighty can of perjury worms. These scandals only seem to happen to the special teams, never to the regular copy.
- The Big Picture – photography
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I hold my nose
I hold my nose, club my conscience, and smother my scruples and voted for Chambliss today. Barr’s suggestion was important to me, enough to get me over my outrage at his campaign literature mentioning “Fiscal Responsibility”.
Incidentally my polling place was deserted, which points to a substantial win for Chambliss.
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My work in progress
It’s the eventual top of my first commisioned piece, the top is turning out quite well. At the moment it’s all end grain oak, cherry and walnut. It’s in keeping with my usual King Arthur/Giant slab style, and currently weights about 55 pounds. The top is going to increase in size by about 40% or so and be around 46 inches tall once the base is built.
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Belated post
- Bet On America –
The evidence for our nation’s downward spiral isn’t sufficient to rule out the very opposite possibility: that the United States will become, in purely geopolitical terms, even stronger in coming decades. The mistake we make is not so much overestimating our problems, but underestimating the problems of our potential rivals. We think we’re the only country with decline-and-fall issues.
I’ll wager that many of the toughest challenges for Americans in the future won’t be associated with our geopolitical decline, weakness or decrepitude. No: Our challenges will be the unimagined consequences of our many successes.
- A travelogue on East St Louis
- Predictions from the year 1900 – a must read
- ASP.net Chart Controls
- The economics of Scientology
- Bet On America –
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Things I’m not thankful for
I’ll have the list I’m thankful for later, but here’s one that is obviously not in that category.
Federal deficit could hit $1 trillion this yearOne Trillion Dollars!!!
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The funniest thing I read today
Is this Urban Dictionary entry on Atlanta (Definition 26):
If you like ghetto fabulous craphole dumps, you will think you have died and gone to heaven in Atlanta.
The simple and direct entry on Forsyth County is good (and somewhat accurate) too.
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Making little rocks out of big rocks
Sorry for the dreadfully light blogging lately – for the record, here is a short summation of my thoughts lately.
- Bush will issue between 150-200 pardons between now and when he leaves office
- I’m still furious about the bailouts
- I think my initial view of Obama, as being an excellent figurehead, with no fixed ideology, is coming into sharper focus.
- And this is the funniest commentary on the bailouts I’ve seen yet. It’s a good indicator that popular opposition remains strong.
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Quick Sunday link
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Wrapping up a miserable week, and onto another
Work has sucked, my dog has somethign wrong with him, and I’ve got a massive toothache. But paying in art instead of money makes me smile.
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Something funny
From this Wikipedia page on Melungeons
On the other hand, in the tensions about race and slavery leading up to the Civil War, several Melungeon men were tried in Hawkins County, Tennessee, in 1846 for “illegal voting”, under suspicion of being black.
It brings to mind the Dick Gregory joke
“I’d rather be black than gay because you never have to tell your parents you’re black.”
