A shift in my family
This is my first diary. I wanted to relate an observation I had from a graduation party in my family last weekend. In order to put this observation into context, though, I first have to provide a...
View ArticleCongress pushing bill to make you a criminal
Just caught this on Slashdot, the House has passed H.R. 4729 which would establish a band of I.P. cops with the authority to seize hardware containing data of 'dubious origin'. What I find most...
View ArticleBank of International Settlements Warns of Depression
The Telegraph has reported that the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has warned of the risk that the credit bubble being experienced poses the potential to push the world into another Great...
View ArticleMcCain's chances in MT just tanked- thanks Ron!
Ron Paul will be appearing on Montana's ballot as a candidate of the Constitution Party. This will give the 25% of Republican voters who favored Paul in the February primary a home to voice their...
View ArticleDebate Wordclouds
I had a bit of spare time this morning, so I thought I'd go through the transcripts and split out the texts of both Senator Obama and Senator McCain's debate answers and see what the wordclouds looked...
View ArticleSpeculation about the Lieberman vote
This will be a short diary, but I wanted to float a possible explanation as to what was behind the vote to allow Lieberman to keep his Chairmanship of the Committee on Homeland Security and...
View ArticleMy visit to the offices of Senators Baucus and Tester
I decided to cut out of my cubicle a bit early this afternoon and go downtown to lend my thoughts to the kind staffers at Senator Baucus and Senator Tester's offices. Below, I shall describe the...
View ArticleHelp, I'm freaking out
Tomorrow, I go to the joint doctor. I had an MRI on my knee last Friday, because an old knee injury from a few years ago hadn't improved and my doc didn't know what to make of it. What is freaking me...
View ArticleEnron CEO Jeffrey Skilling's sentence cut by 10 years, could be out in 2017
Not much to say, the thought of this crook ever walking free again leaves me rather speechless.
View ArticleJudge sentences ex-teacher to 30 years for raping student who killed herself....
http://missoulian.com/...This guy was supposed to be in some treatment program, and got kicked out. This nullified his plea agreement. So he should have gotten the book thrown at him, right?This judge...
View ArticleMT-Senate: NYT catches Walsh plagiarizing master's thesis
Not much to say other than congratulations, Senator Daines (vomits all over keyboard)
View ArticleFinally, MT has a poll out. Bullock +4, Trump up by 10
It’s been frustrating to ride out the saturation of the airwaves with advertisements without any idea how the MT-Gov race looked. Finally, though, Mason-Dixon actually did a poll here (albeit, after...
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