Month: August 2003

Is there anyone who isn’t running for governor of California? As if Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t ludicrous enough, apparently Gary Coleman has now entered the race. Maybe he should use this as his campaign poster. I’m just sayin’.

Comedian (and I use that term very loosely) Gallager is also running. How can this possibly be a good thing? I’ll admit, I don’t fully understand the intricacies of the recall election or the reasons behind it, but when you don’t like an elected official’s policies, isn’t the normal course of action voting for someone else in the next election?

Neil Gaiman is right: this sets a very disturbing precedent indeed, regardless of what you think about comic books in general. A guilty verdict was secured even though the state prosecutor presented no expert witness, offered no contradictory testimony, and claimed in summation that it didn’t “care what type of evidence or what type of testimony is out there…” And, because the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal, the same thing can now happen anywhere.

This morning, we received a check dated and mailed on April 30. Isn’t air mail supposed to, you know, speed things up?

Maybe I don’t understand HTML or spam. I’m using MailWasher again, which lets me view the text of a message without actually downloading it or its images. In a message which seems to be just one in an endless parade of ads for Viagra ripoffs, I’m noticing a number of very unusual tags: things like <!bogeymen> and <!thermionic> and <!asphalt> and <!transduction>. Any clues, or am I just looking at more spammer garbage? (The message’s been deleted either way.)

In today’s search referrals: “esperanto chart knitting”. Your guess is as good as mine.