Last night’s Saints game. Ugh. As their website says, the only good thing about it is that Winnipeg lost too, so the Saints held onto the one-game lead for the second half of the season. The game was slow, poorly played, and the weather was cold (but at least it wasn’t windy). One of the more disappointing things was that Brian Gaal made three separate fielding mistakes that cost him at least a couple runs. Stupid plays. Definitely not fundamental baseball. I hope Ben gives him a good talking to about that.
Other than that, yesterday was just a slow day. I didn’t get a whole lot done, but since I’d decided I wasn’t going up to Fargo this weekend, I’ve got some wiggle room, and having a slow day was okay. This morning I slept extra-late (until 8am), too. I think the cold weather’s wearing me down a bit, but the temperature is supposed to start rebounding today. Yay.
- At last night’s game, Charles Aldrich, the Libertarian Party candidate for a state house seat in Burnsville was out gathering signatures to get Michael Badnarik on the ballot in Minnesota. It sounds like they’re going to be successful, and I was happy to sign, though I did tell him that I was pretty unhappy with Browne’s raiding of the party treasury last time around and that while the LP was probably the best of a bad lot, they were still too “big government” for me. He seemed to like that comment.
- In A moving story about charity by Nick Coleman, he points out that the transportation industry in Minnesota is heavily regulated, and it’s illegal to deliver furniture to a private home for free, even if the furniture is a donation and the company wants to give away its services. [strib]
- Ron Paul’s latest Texas Straight Talk is titled Police State USA, in which Rep. Paul talks about the fact that a free country is generally secure, but a country that focuses on security is seldom free.
Every new security measure represents another failure of the once-courageous American spirit.
[endwar] - In this interview on Transparent Privacy, David Brin says that those who see a tradeoff between security and freedom are
either lazy, liars, or fools.
He says that safety and freedom are synergistic, that contempt forthe common masses
is contemptible, and that while our neighbors individuallymay seem like dopes, but together, somehow, they are making a civilization.
Good thoughts, and something to ponder.