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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

12 Step Blogging Recovery Program

1. Bob admit you have a problem.

Apparently someone is a bit addicted to the blog and got somewhat manic without a week's worth of posts from me. Well this should give you your fix:

- Yesterday in an interview on NPR -Karl "Voldemort" Rove said that the Republicans would hold onto the House and Senate because he had polls from all districts up for elections not just the aggregate polls released to the news orgs - saying "You have your numbers, I have THE numbers." Well Karl, everyone has access to those polls.... and could actually do a fact check if they wanted. I so want this guy to be proven wrong, he's quite the despicable weasel.

-Antonin Scalia said that the courts should have nothing to say on the major social issues of the day - that it was the responsibility of the Legislature to deal with them. While this is partially true, especially from a strict constructionist viewpoint, it neglects the responsibility of the courts to act as a powercheck against the President and Congress when laws circumvent or oppose the basic rights of the individuals or groups (especially minorities) under the Constitution.

- Doonesbury introduces a new character to the administration's support staff, Fear Itself... and Trudeau makes the WP.

- Hospitals actually try something the Malcolm Gladwell suggested about a year ago.... [providing free preventative care to the poor is cheaper than treating the end result] ... hmm there must have been something to it.

- For the first time in ages small cars are outselling SUVs (stupid useless vehicles)

- Dogs can get hooked on toadlicking

- The spell checker in Blogger - the site I'm using - does not recognize the word "blog"

- Oh and Cornell beat York 11-1 at a hockey game I went to this weekend.... Cornell has some seriously demented chants.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I actually have noted a change on the highways Americana. Many more smaller cars. Unfortunatley a lot of them are gas guzzlers in my opinion. 20-25 is better than 15-20 however still horrible. My hybrid is avg'ing 38 right now and I have been up to 42.2. I don't even think that is good enough. I like the 50-60 mpg range.

10:22 AM  
Blogger Nick said...

haha dad you have too much free time on your hands.

11:58 AM  

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