Back in January 1974 I was in Hawai’i on leave from my Navy duty station in Japan at the height of the 1973-1974 Arab oil crisis. I remember spending long hours on the side of Kamehameha Highway as it went past Pearl Harbor, waiting to get on base to buy gas. Because of that experience, …
When one of these gets noticed by 60 Minutes you gotta figure it’s pretty pervasive. It’s called Conficker, and BD Tools is one of the places to go to get a removal tool. Back up your system after running it.
I really hope Jonathan Chait is wrong when he argues that Senate Democrats are incapable of getting behind President Obama’s agenda due to their own parochial needs and ambitions, but I’ve seen so much of them that I have to believe he may be partially correct. That would be tragic.
Update: Well, UNC’s win means I picked one (ONE!) of the Final Four teams correctly. Sheesh. 46 correct picks out of a possible 60 (so far), and that’s the result. But hey, I moved up a little; I’m now at 26th in the pool. I dunno. It might be another 1985 for Villanova, but Carolina …
In an otherwise ordinary NYT profile of Peter Orszag, Obama’s OMB Director, we find this startling sentence: Each day he eats the same egg whites for breakfast and salad topped with chicken for dinner, all from the White House mess. Really? The same egg whites? Over and over again?
Man. If I’d known that Kansas only returned one player from last year’s championship team, I might not have picked them to go as deep as they did before losing to Michigan State this evening. I had them going to the regional finals before losing to Louisville. I’m now tied for 14th in the pool.
Louisville, Kansas, Oklahoma and UNC better win tonight or my bracket will be completely decimated. After yesterday’s stunning losses by Memphis and Duke, I dropped from tied for 1st in my pool to 13th. Those weren’t just losses, really. Missouri and Villanova hammered their opponents; Duke wasn’t in the game after halftime. Memphis gave it …
You know the Republicans released what they laughingly called a budget alternative yesterday, right? (I say laughingly because it essentially has no numbers in it, which makes it not a budget in the world I inhabit.) At that link you will see a diagram pulled directly from the 17-page document they call a budget. The …
Random thought while shoving lunch remains down the disposal: Bye, bye, bye, Papaya! — Sung to the tune of the Tom Jones classic Delilah
Just heard Judd Gregg complain that the President’s budget will cost a household $80K. These kinds of numbers are meaningless. Good theater and soundbite material, but useless and pointless. I’ve never had a federal officer walk up to my door and present me a bill.