Weird experience just now: I installed the latest classic Mac OS update (9.2.2) while running Mac OS X. I doubleclicked and ran the installer; it quit all processes IN MY MAC OS X session (except the Dock) and then logged out OS X when it was done. Surely it could have just dumped me back into X and made me restart the Classic process. Frankly, though, I’m amazed it worked at all.
Day: December 6, 2001
“Aid and comfort” rears its ugly head
Free speech must be getting Ashcroft down:
“To those who pit Americans against immigrants, citizens against non-citizens, to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve… They give ammunition to America’s enemies and pause to America’s friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil.”
When being first isn’t good
How embarrassed am I that a story on this site is the top hit for searching Google for “muppets compromising positions”? At least there are only four pages of hits returned, and none of them actually have anything compromising about them. And it’s Esta‘s story, not mine. 🙂
And no, I don’t mean blank checks
Ashcroft finds himself on the stand today before Congress. This is an interesting example of checks & balances in action. Good old Patrick Leahy: even after being an anthrax letter recipient, he can still say things like “I want to make sure after we’re all gone that the Constitution is still here…It’s not always popular upholding the Constitution, but it’s always the right thing to do.”
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Because there’s not enough in non-fiction
This is so inappropriate I have to share it. I didn’t even realize there was a Bad Sex in Fiction Award.