Friday, April 30, 2004
Fells Acres
Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Amirault released from prison 18 years
Welcome home, Gerald Amirault
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Fells Acres
Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Amirault released from prison 18 years
Welcome home, Gerald Amirault
(Early unfamiliarity with Blogspot left this as a draft for 8 months.)
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Elton John - What a maroon
Elton John's first assumption is racism.
"According to Reuters News Service, John called the voting process "incredibly racist" at a press conference in New York Tuesday, because of the low vote tallies that appeared to constantly target performers Jennifer Hudson, La Toya London and Fantasia Barrino. "
The Edge, in the Boston Herald, got it right, on April 27: "Some people even cried racism - as some people always do." (They conclude that the people who do the most feverish dialing are young girls and soccer moms, who go for John Stevens and Clay Aiken. And there was vote-splitting in that the four most talented members of the contestants are African-American. Which I say is why they ought to use single transferable or proportional/preference voting!)
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Operating under the influence
If you're drunk and you sleep it off in your car, you're guilty of Operating Under the Influence in many jurisdictions, at least if the car is running, or you're in the front seat, or you've got the keys in your pocket. Suppose two people so situated are both asleep and drunk in a parked car: Are they both guilty?
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Cultural Exchange
I missed the President's speech tonight because I was at a School Committee meeting. It opened with an introduction to our foreign exchange students. Their chaperone, the teacher from Spain, gave a speech in English about how meeting other cultures could avoid the problems we have now. And I'm thinking "If Osama and his boys had spent a semester in Crawford instead of Oxford, they might have realized You Don't Mess With Texas."
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Thursday, April 01, 2004
Fallujah
Why is this bridge still standing?
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