School started yesterday, and all the underaged bloggers are posting about it. I, falling under that category, am obliged to at least spend a little time on the subject. This might as well kill two birds with one stone and be my universal answer to the question “How is your new school Chris?” As I hinted [...]
Adriaan released the ecto 2 public beta today. Overall, a very good upgrade, but there is one problem that I’ve found. I can’t seem to figure out how to change the Formatting (I usually use Markdown with Smartypants to format my entries). When it changes to html mode, the formatting menu is still grayed out, just [...]
That’s right! Or at least unless the President extends the ten year ban on assault weapons that has angered pro-Gun folks and the NRA. On September 13th, many parts of the “Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994″ are set to expire, specifically the Federal Assault Weapons ban. California has strict regulations on assault [...]
Zell Miller on Hardball. The one I mentioned on the previous post. via Jess’ Blog
“Senator Kerry has made it clear that he would use military force only if approved by the United Nations.” — Zell Miller “U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?” — Zell Miller “Get out of my face. If you are going to ask me a question, step back and let me answer. I wish we lived in the [...]
On Sunday I took a grand trip around San Diego county. One could call it a pilgrimage due to the fact that the escapade was entirely faith-based. A two hour drive up through Julian brought us to Whispering Winds, a Catholic retreat devastated by the Wildfires last October. I had been there on retreat twice with [...]
Emmanuel Goldstein was arrested yesterday. Currently, there isn’t much information on it, but it looks like he was a videotaping a protest on 16th street, in New York you dorks. Update: 2600 has posted about the incident. It seems he, along with about 150 other people, is being charged with “parading without a permit.”