3/5/07

Here is an interesting commentary on nominee successions in presidential politics. By successions I mean who is "next in line" to have a shot at the presidency, from a party-perspective. I won't bother to re-hash the content of the article, but I think most of you would find it interesting even if politics aren't much your thing. Will is a traditional conservative, but this article has no Right-Left vitriol. In fact, most of his columns do not and its one of the reasons I like him so much.

Speaking of columnists, Coulter is going back up on the links. I saw her tonight on Vanity and Colmes and I now get the joke: it was a reference to the actor who went into rehab for using the same word. OK, so her joke was off-color and not funny but it was not some off-the-cuff bigoted remark like I had first thought.

And now for something completely different. Here are some pictures from the cell phone Tina got me. It's a fancy-schmancy camera-phone. Pictures aren't great, but that's OK. It's handy to capture moments that would normally go un-pictorially-chronicled.

Here is my desk at work. Pretty dull, huh?


Here is Elaina at Eagle park back in November









My neighbor got a paddle boat and this was taken from the uh... "lake"... canal... turnpike runoff-catcher... whatever you want to call it. The picture came out very well though. At dusk on a cool November night I can think of no place better than out on a paddle boat with your neighbor, hoping you don't see the alligator.


Here are a couple shots of some of the servers at my work. Now scroll back up and look at my desk. OK, scroll back down again.
Who is serving who here? These servers get windows, air-conditioned floors, extra space, and they don't have to sit in front of a chronically flatuating sexagenarian.

Change in Links

The ridiculous remark made by Coulter yesterday has led me to remove her link. I know, its not much of a statement, but I can't condone such bigotry and stupidity.

On the bright side I've made room for two more links: "The Religion of Peace" dot com and the Fair Tax homepage.

The Fair Tax, for those who don't yet know, is kind of like the Flat Tax in as much as it is a proposal for dramatic tax reform. Simply, the way it would work is there would no longer be an income tax, as it would be replaced with a large sales tax. A fuller explanation can found by clicking here: About the Fair Tax. I know tax policy is not exactly exciting, but you have to consider what would happen to the world of American politics if politicians could no longer manipulate the tax code to buy votes. Additionally, taxing consumption encourages savings and investment while discouraging consumerism. I can't think of a single issue that could unite the Left and the Right like this one.