An annoying thing about yesterday's news was that despite an expanded cable package, we basically have no national news channels at the weekend. MSNBC runs endless "documentaries" on life in prison and true crime nonsense, CNN's headline news seemed to be on a loop of Dr Sanja Gupta's pre-taped specials of non-information, and I'd pull out my own ( Read more... )

Just a few bad apples? They knew. Of course they knew.According to a former CIA official involved in the process, CIA headquarters would receive cables from operatives in the field asking for authorization for specific techniques. Agents, worried about overstepping their boundaries, would await guidance in particularly complicated cases dealing ( Read more... )

... put it behind a cut. ( Enough Already )

Today I experienced reason #1,247 why I am leaving my current school.( Hey, those ranty-pants look GOOD on you! )

My People at Our Bank talked to Her People at Our Bank and the missing $400 was finally located in someone else's account. It was an encoding error, just as I suspected. And all it took was pulling the teller tape to look at the transaction, as I knew should have been done the moment I, the customer, raised questions about it ( Read more... )

( Two weeks to go. Two weeks to go. Two weeks to go. Two weeks to go. )

'Cause it looks like you're losing some of your old ones. Microsoft has bought themselves a whole bunch of bad publicity. Links from Americablog.

LA Gay and Lesbian Center asks for Award Back In response to Microsoft's withdrawal of support for legislation that would have outlawed discrimination against gay and lesbian people in Washington, the L. ( Read more... )

Salon's War Room asks some interesting questions about Microsoft's support/non-support of the House bill that went down in flames yesterday:But Microsoft tells the New York Times that it's all a big misunderstanding. Although the company admitted to the Times that it met twice with Hutcherson, it says its decision to withdraw its support for the ( Read more... )

I don't know how many of you read Steve Gilliard's News Blog, but he's got an action alert up this morning about our good friends across the lake, Microsoft. See, we've got a bill coming up for a vote tomorrow, House Bill 1515, which would expand the equal protection clause for employers to include sexual orientation. Up until a few months ago, our ( Read more... )

between a stray, feral, or an indoor/outdoor cat? Especially at a distance.

That's right, you can't. ( 'cause this got long... )