Yesterday, Chad stopped by and put up my trellis / Pergola. It’s nice looking, and the hop plants near my front sidewalk are hopefully going to enjoy it. I’d have a picture, but in the past 18 hours I haven’t managed to get the camera with the photos of it and the card-reader to get the photos off the camera to the same location. I hope to fix that later today.
Beyond that, not too much excitement on the home front. The Saints begin their regular season at home next Tuesday, and I’m still trying to get my back happy enough that I’ll be able to go to games and not hurt the next day. Wish me luck.
- Interesting. Justice Scalia makes comments saying that he doesn’t think we need more privacy, and then a class at Fordham compiled a dossier of publicly available information about him. Details at Justice Scalia’s Dossier: Interesting Issues about Privacy and Ethics. Scalia was pissed, and seemed to back off on his earlier comments a bit. Sounds like a good teaching exercise all around. [boing boing]
- Speaking of privacy, this data about The Electronic Police State puts the US in the top ten. That’s not the right end of the scale to be on. [boing boing]
- More on the
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front: Pelosi confronts justice looking for de-facto immunity from investigation for members of Congress. [vinnie] - So Manny Ramirez suspended 50 games for positive drug test. Good that they caught him. But bad for baseball in that there are still folks trying to cheat. Not that cheating in baseball is necessarily bad, but MLB needs to actually clean this up, and they should have started more than ten years ago, rather than in 2003. I blame Bud Selig. [sportsshooter]
- I agree that it was a Sad day in Mannywood, but I disagree on a few things. First, I don’t think Bud Selig should apologize. I think he should get a kick in the nuts for every single juice-aided home run that’s been hit since he became commissioner. Second, I don’t think I owe MLB anything. They need to clean things up, and that needs to start at the top. If baseball can’t clean itself up, maybe it’s time to end Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption. If nothing else, that might finally get Bud Selig’s attention.