Rumors and Tasteless Truth
Jan. 5th, 2005 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsThere is a rumor afloat that Six Degrees, the makers of MoveableType and other blogging services, is going to buy LiveJournal. We forget, sometimes, that LJ is a business. I wonder if anything will change.
Congress yesterday had a prayer service-- a private one, in private chambers, completely legal-- for the people killed in the tsunami a week ago. Tom Delay gave the reading. His choice? Matthew 7: 21-27.
Tasteless does not begin to describe it.
Well, Mr. Delay should be happy. Although the Republicans kept the rules that would require Mr. Delay's suspension from leadership duties should he be indicted, they also strengthened the rules with which they may quash ethics investigations. Last year Mr. Delay earned three public rebukes from the ethics committee, and the Republicans have apparently sworn that never again will he be caught with his hand in the cookie jar-- unethically.
And good news of a sort: Parents who underestimate a teenager's drinking habits are usually right. Conversely, parents who have pessimistic expectations about their ability to moderate a child's bad habits typically have children with bad habits.
And one for the Transhumanists: Human Performance Enhancement in 2032: A Scenario for Military Planners. Somewhat high-level and tentative, but fun.
Congress yesterday had a prayer service-- a private one, in private chambers, completely legal-- for the people killed in the tsunami a week ago. Tom Delay gave the reading. His choice? Matthew 7: 21-27.
7:26 And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand. 7:27 The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. And it collapsed and was completely ruined.
Tasteless does not begin to describe it.
Well, Mr. Delay should be happy. Although the Republicans kept the rules that would require Mr. Delay's suspension from leadership duties should he be indicted, they also strengthened the rules with which they may quash ethics investigations. Last year Mr. Delay earned three public rebukes from the ethics committee, and the Republicans have apparently sworn that never again will he be caught with his hand in the cookie jar-- unethically.
And good news of a sort: Parents who underestimate a teenager's drinking habits are usually right. Conversely, parents who have pessimistic expectations about their ability to moderate a child's bad habits typically have children with bad habits.
And one for the Transhumanists: Human Performance Enhancement in 2032: A Scenario for Military Planners. Somewhat high-level and tentative, but fun.
