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Monday, January 20, 2003 |
My father had an accident today. He had stopped breathing some minuets before he was discovered and the paramedics were called. He has been nonresponsive since he arrived at the hopital. While the staff has been characteristically uninformative, but I can't imagine how the prognosis is anything but bad. Obviously, tomorrow some major decisions are going to have to be made.
9:55:54 PM 
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Feel Lucky? Unless you are a paid subscriber to The Wall Street Journal online, you missed the infamous editorial "Lukey Duckies". It was possibly the stupidest thing printed on the internet in all of 2002.
The journal has now reposted the piece on their free site OpinionJournal.com
The Non-Taxpaying Class: Those lucky duckies!
I have made less than $12,000 a year, and regardless of the tax burden, I was not lucky, and I don't imagine that anyone living in the lowest tax bracket today would hesitate to trade with anyone paying higher income taxes, no matter the size of the federal governments take.
Never content to let stupid dogs lie, the Journal has followed up another editorial--Lucky Duckies Again: Look at who won't pay taxes under Bush's plan-- now claiming that Bush's new tax plan is even more progressive.
I will cheerfully vote republican for the rest of my life if there is even one person in this country of nearly 300 million that thinks anyone who makes $12,000 (or even $30,000) and pays no income taxes is lucky compared to Bill Gates who will now recieve $100 million in dividend payments from his investment in just one company tax free this year.
The Republicans are going to implode in 2004, and it's going to be stupid shit like this that does it.
11:13:54 AM
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Who Knew? I had no idea there was an actual person behind this. If there were any justice in the world, this man would have died more famous, and praised than Andy Warhol.
Douglas Herrick, 82, Father of the Jackalope, Is Dead. Douglas Herrick gets both the credit and the blame for the tackiest totem of the American West, the jackalope. By Douglas Martin. [New York Times: Politics]
9:14:55 AM
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"I'm From the Government. I'm Here to Help You!" A pretty soft profile of Adm. Poindexter in the NYT. While the article does point out some of his missteps over the last 15 years, it does fail to point the worst thing about his record: his absolute refusal to accept responsibility or punishment for his actions. About the most recent controversy of TIA, Poindexter is reported to believe that his critics are "misinformed" and a friend says that he is "politically tone-deaf.
Poindexter's critics are anything but misinformed. We know that Poindexter believes his judgment to be superior to that of the legally elected members of the legislature. He believes that even though has never held a position outlined in the Constitution, he has the right to essentially make policy, and then lie about it to shield first himself, and then the President from public scrutiny.
John Poindexter betrayed the highest principals of a nation that trusted him. The onus is on him to explain to us why he should be allowed so much as an ATM card, not on us to understand the details of a program designed to spy on Americans going about their daily, and legal, interests.
Poindexter's Still a Technocrat, Still a Lightning Rod. The pursuit of a technological solution to the nation's military challenges is nothing new for Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter nor is the attending controversy. By John Markoff. [New York Times: National]
9:06:10 AM
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© Copyright 2003 Douglas Anders.
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