It started with the snow on Friday, and wrapped up with more snow yesterday, with the snow finishing sometime during “The Great American Race”. Friday’s white stuff wasn’t very notable, except that it was heavy enough to make driving home from mom’s a challenge in dodging the idiots on the freeway. The snow that fell on Sunday was more of an issue, but one neighbor with a snowblower hit a bunch of the snow early in the morning, and the neighbor’s grandchildren burned off a bunch of energy in the afternoon shovelling more of my snow, and I really didn’t have all that much to do. Thanks to everyone for the help!
Sandwiched in the middle of the snow was a Saturday that seemed to be nice when I was asleep, only to turn gray and gloomy when I was awake and looking around. Low energy and much napping were involved.
- Last night, Author Hunter S. Thompson dies at 67, apparently from a self-inflicted shot to the head. RIP. There’s more at The Great Thompson Hunt and a good obit at the Denver Post. [strib, boing boing and endwar]
- Courts figure there’s No Protection for Bloggers, but then there’s no real first amendment protection for reporters or journalists at the federal level, either. Some states have more protection for “journalists”, though. [wired]
- The Smallest Minority points to a case where a CNN reporter committed a felony, flying out of state to buy a .50BMG rifle, then flying back to Atlanta with it. There’s more on the situation from The War on Guns: Did CNN Just Commit a “Gun Crime”?, and More on the Questionable CNN Gun Buy. And finally, much more from Technorati. The simple version is that they appear to have made an illegal purchase under current laws. Further, BATFE has overreacted in other cases in the past. Don’t expect BATFE to swarm CNN’s Atlanta HQ anytime soon, but there are a lot of us who think that wouldn’t be a horrible thing, since it would point out both the problems with journalists who break the law, and with the gun laws in this country. [instapundit]
- Here’s a reason why you should only trust the police to have guns, right? Um, not so much, perhaps. [claire]
- A Stillwater man is Taking on TSA over a $250 fine that he doesn’t think he should have to pay, and which looked like a scam when he first received the notice in the mail. [press-patch]
- Need Sudafed? Stock up soon. Anti-meth measures are sailing through Legislature and will probably restrict the sale of it in Minnesota by the time allergy season rolls around. [press-patch]