Nate Edel's blog
French forest wanderer finds 20 tonnes of gourmet meats
A man walking in a forest near here reportedly found 20 tonnes of gourmet meats wrapped in plastic and still edible.
The salami and cured hams, found Saturday morning, may have been dumped by thieves…
…all is cool, though I’m trying to do more work and procrastinate less than I was doing at Panta. So far I’m succeeding, so no updates here in a while. I’m annoyingly behind on my political blogs, although my sense of things is that a lot of the big moves are in wait-and-see mode anyway.
No real clear thoughts on the new papal situation yet, although I guess since Ratzinger got chosen later in the week than my last post some comment is due. We’ll see if I come up with something intelligent to say about it. It’s more likely that I won’t; as a non-religious person it’s hard to see what all the fuss was about.
…rather than just reading about it afterwards. I’m referring to a
fare pricing error, this time on USAir.
About $38-40 post tax for fares from pretty much anywhere into Lebanon, NH (and according to the news story, a few other cities… those I didn’t see.) LEB is the airport nearest Hanover, NH which is where my undergrad college was, and guys from my fraternity heard about the deal and distributed the news via our house mailing list. I saw it, nearly booked two tickets for 4th of July weekend, but Marie wanted to check her class schedule to make sure she could go, and wanted to go back to sleep first.
Ah well. Not like I need the USAir miles, but of course AA doesn’t fly to LEB, and being able to visit my family over the summer would have been fun.
I am very glad I do not live in California like the Cubicle Hermit himself…
Nate looks sort of like this, at least while on vacation. Disturbingly, the proportions are about right.
Artwork via Planearium2’s Southpark Studio (link is to the English version). (update 8/2006: moved to http://www.sp-studio.de/)
From the NYU Washington Square News:
In asking about Scalia’s dissent in Lawrence v. Texas and his view that privacy is not constitutionally protected, Eric Berndt, a law student, shocked the crowd by asking, “Do you sodomize your wife?”
Scalia refused to answer the question while the crowd gasped and the administrators promptly turned off Berndt’s microphone.
via AMERICAblog, among other places.
If you needed one more reason before hating Tom DeLay, here’s one:
Mr. Dinan: You’ve been talking about going after activist judges since at least 1997. The [Terri] Schiavo case gives you a chance to do that, but you’ve recently said you blame Congress for not being zealous in oversight.
Mr. DeLay: Not zealous. I blame Congress over the last 50 to 100 years for not standing up and taking its responsibility given to it by the Constitution. The reason the judiciary has been able to impose a separation of church and state that’s nowhere in the Constitution is that Congress didn’t stop them. The reason we had judicial review is because Congress didn’t stop them. The reason we had a right to privacy is because Congress didn’t stop them.
(emphasis mine)
From MyDD citing an interview in the Washington
Times (“Moonie Times” per MyDD)
My own opinion on the subjects above is that anyone who at this point in time wants to refight Marbury vs. Madison has no business being elected to a local water board, let alone federal office, or as in DeLay’s case, being the most powerful man in the H.R.
So consider yourself cauthioned cautioned before checking out Fleshbot, from the people who brought you Wonkette.
But funny and informative stuff, if you follow the adult industry. A sample post of theirs includes such gems as:
We know it’s supposed to be a protective device, but why do we feel like the FemDefence tampon is going to wind up modified for use as an extreme BDSM appliance someday? (Gizmodo)
Not content to wait for May 18th or whatever it is to know that George Lucas will not pull any rabbits out of his hat, I bought the Episode III novelization today. Review possibly to come later… we’ll see.
Susie Bright’s blog had a very different take on the Gannon/Guckert controversy a few weeks ago:
There is no way that Gannon has retired from Bulldoggin’. Sure, his cover was blown, but now all the closet stud chasers in DC know how tight he lap-danced in the seats of power. He must be busy. You’re not going to be able to reach him by his web site anymore, because Jeff’s little black book is completely filled by word of mouth. There’s gotta be a waiting list and a velvet rope as thick as his …
Caveat lector: some explicit language there, but a good, funny and informative read.
OK, a little inane humor for cat owners.
Check out Hitachi’s Get Perpendicular animation. Make sure your sound is on, and your tolerance for Schoolhouse Rock take-offs high.
via Lawrence You on the SSRC mailing list.
