November 20, 2008 – 11:41 am
“Sen. Robert Byrd, 91, announced that he will give up the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee to Sen. Daniel Inouye, 84. The torch has passed to a new generation.” Truthdig
November 13, 2008 – 11:07 am
Thomas Friedman has a great article up about the foolishness of the likely bail-out of GM: They were interviewing Bob Nardelli, the C.E.O. of Chrysler, and he was explaining why the auto industry, at that time, needed $25 billion in loan guarantees. It wasn’t a bailout, he said. It was a way to enable the [...]
November 10, 2008 – 8:51 pm
A while ago I posted on my adventures getting OpenSolaris networking to move from its natural state of notworking (see what I did there?) on a mac mini. Well today I installed the latest release candidate of 2008.11, the forthcoming update, and it went much more smoothly. You still have to install a driver (tip [...]
November 9, 2008 – 8:12 am
From Think Progress: “We are now free to start thinking again, acting again, and doing the right thing by what our constituents and our country need.” That’s exactly what I’d say (or at least hope), but these words actually came from the policy committee head for the House GOP.
November 5, 2008 – 10:52 am
From The Onion: WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally [...]