2008 archive
“Move ‘Em Up, Head ‘Em Out” 0
Dick Polman has a nice roundup of just deserts.
Off To Drink Liberally 0
After running my errands.
Craig’s Sist 0
Senator Craig–ahem–stalled again.
Contrasts 0
Republican Economic Theory: Making nothing out of something.
Republican Political Tactics: Making something out of nothing.
Swampwater 0
It’s the Lynndie England case all over again; throw the grunts under the bus and promote the officers. Eugene Robinson:
(snip)
The indictment, charging voluntary manslaughter and weapons violations, demonstrates that those who engage “in unprovoked attacks will be held accountable,” Assistant Attorney General Patrick Rowan claimed.
But it demonstrates nothing of the sort. As with the torture and humiliation of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison, our government is deflecting all scrutiny from the corporate higher-ups who employed the guards — to say nothing of the policymakers whose decisions made the shootings possible, if not inevitable.
Not Wile E. Enough (Updated: Sad Ending) 1
He should have gone to Acme:
Addendum, the Next Day:
The coyote was euthanized. Vets said it had internal injuries and might have been hit by a vehicle.
Down at the Farm 1
Woke up this morning to no blog.
Sometime during the night, the router reset itself to default settings, which means that it closed port 80 and denied access to the webserver without a password.
Since no password is set up for remote access to the network in the router’s default settings, well, d’oh!
Cure: 1/2 hour of panicky trouble-shooting, followed by unplugging the router for 10 seconds, plugging it back in, teleporting into it using the default highly insecure password, reopening port 80, and changing the password to something secure.
As with most trouble-shooting, finding the problem was the worst part; fixing it was easy.
Normally, I’d blame the cat. She likes to curl up in the network entrance and has knocked me offline before, but the door to the cabinet was closed.
I think I’ll blame the cat anyway. She’s got to be good for something besides mousing.
Guilty until Proven Innocent . . . 0
. . . and, when proven innocent, still treated as guilty.
Bushie justice.
There is no more morality in the Current Federal Administration than there is in a brick.
Best Health Care in the World, As Long As You Don’t Need It 0
Second Son told me about this.
Jimmy is a friend of friends who took a fall a couple of years ago:
One More Time: The Internet Is a Public Place 0
It’s difficult for me to see this as a feminist-type issue.
I know a little bit about frat-boy type behavior (one reason I was never interested in joining a frat–why pay dues to get drunk?).
I can see the same thing happening had a male candidate been the subject.
But some persons do see it thus.
It looks to me more like a stupidity-out-of-control-type issue.
If you don’t want absolutely everyone to be able to see something, don’t show it to absolutely everyone.
H/T Karen for the link.
Bushonomics: The Legacy 1
Bonddad. Follow the link for the analyses behind his conclusion (emphasis in the original):
The point of the previous two paragraphs is to point out that we are in clearly uncharted waters in a big way. There are no rules that apply — we’re trying to figure this thing out as we go along. Also remember that no one in the incoming administration has a crystal ball either. While there are a lot of very smart and capable people out, there don’t have the magical “how to fix this crisis in three easy steps” book either. In other words — it’s going to be a long and difficult road going forward.
I wouldn’t want Mr. Obama’s job for the world.
Nixon v. Bush 0
Dick Polman votes for Bush.
