Roger Simon says:
Speaking of which, some of us are waiting for President Bush’s speech tonight, the one that is intended to put a weary public back on course in Iraq.
I suggest that it is not our presence in Iraq the public is weary of, but rather the relentless media “coverage” of it.
(Or perhaps “I have met our new tax and spend overlords, and he is us” is more appropriate?)
7123 - YES
6550 - NO
Either way, 5 more years of business as usual.
An Arlington List member suggests he may leave town if the override fails. He admits surrounding towns are too expensive and that he would likely be forced to go further afield.
I suggest France - I hear there’s a webmaster union there.
;-)
Those obvious right-wing loonies on the WaPo editorial board have this to say about AI’s latest bit of idiotarianism.
Dunster reports:
Article 4 - Assistant Moderator. The first speech was from Rich Carreiro who cited his knowledge of procedure, communication skills, and attention to meeting and detail. The second was from John Leone who described his attendance record, his knowledge of town officials through his law practice, his chairmanship of the Zoning Bylaw Review Committee, [...]
In the Herald, we read (though with difficulty, as the Herald writers, they are apparently not so good with the Ingleesh):
“We’ve asked the town manager and the superintendent of schools to prepare two budgets, one will be based on our existing projected funding and the other based on a successful override,” Arlington Selectman John Hurd [...]
or, New Socialist Muppets
Another reason to chop CTW off at the knees…
Turns out there is a federal Leaking Underground Storage Tanks program.
[see here, which mentions it in passing]
Another excellent one from Russ Nelson.
From a conversation today:
TJIC: Sometimes a slippery slope can be to your advantage: like when you’re pushing someone down one…
Futurepundit reports on the damage that globalism does (the crazies waving “capitalism kills” signs may be right):
Creating a new kind of caveman economics in their published paper, they argue early modern humans were first to exploit the competitive edge gained from specialization and free trade. With more reliance on free trade, humans increased their activities [...]
From the always excellent mASS BACKWARDS:
Sometimes I think it’s the gyroscopic motion of all the dead patriots buried in Massachusetts spinning in their graves that keeps the planet aligned on its axis.
Hilarious.
Joe Klein in TIME magazine:
California’s perpetual fiscal crisis is unique—a consequence of the state’s artificially low property taxes, cemented in place by the infamous Proposition 13 passed in 1978—but most states are now being squeezed as the Federal Government cuts spending on everything from cops to Medicaid.
(emphasis added)
Oh, you selfish voters of California, who decline [...]
from an email exchange:
jmd [regarding building a telescope]: The cardboard tube could be used to launch rockets, in case of revolution… ;-)
dff: Speaking of the revolution, when it comes I’m cutting [someone's] fingers off.
jmd: I just wish we could send them off to live in the world they want to create - that would [...]
In a thread entitled “legal opinion Renaming decision Reeds Brook”, where in a prior post there was a legal opinion of Town Counsel Maher saying that the by-law about requesting the advice of the Public Memorial Committee was not being followed in recent namings, the following was said by someone:
Well, if everyone’s ignoring the by-laws [...]
Charter opponents sink to new low.
It may be a new low for charter opponents, but it’s not a new low for the unassuming Paul Schlichtman.
For those who missed it (er, back in January), Sprague takes a pounding in the comments of this LFA article. The whole thing is a hoot.
There may be hope for this town yet.
NZC sees unconscious bias at NPR. The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Goldberg, in an article about Democrats who want to look tough, writes:
His run for the 1988 Democratic Presidential nomination came to a sudden end when he was accused of borrowing, without attribution, from a television commercial by the former British Labour Party leader Neil [...]
I can’t believe there’s a terrorist group called MILF.
Arab Totalitarian Movement, anyone?
Check out the “Kyoto count-up” feature in the sidebar at Luboš Motl’s physics blog. Excellent!