"Doctor" Laura Schlesinger (not an M.D. but an academic with a PhD in Physiology) is a miserable, mean-spirited, condescending, homophobic, bigoted, patronizing, dramatically under-qualified bitch, blissfully unaware of her own woeful lack of qualification to offer people advice.
Talking Heads' "Remain In Light" stands up as one of the most extraordinary and ground-breaking musical works of the 30-plus years I have been buying music.
Trent Lott is still on my list of "People I Wouldn't Mind Seeing Burst Spontaneously into Flames."
Also on that list? Karl Rove, John Ashcroft, Pauly Shore, Gilbert Godfried, Carrot Top, Rush Limbaugh, Ari Fleischer, and the guy who does those stupid "Ditech.com" ads on cable.
The fact that airport concourses and concession areas are still closed to meeters and greeters (non-travelers) shows we still have our head up our collective butts when it comes to airport security.
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys is not a film about the Catholic Church abuse crisis. The Jodie Foster production, in which she, Vicent Donofrio and Kieran Culkin star along with newcomer Emile Hirsch is a genuine and funny movie, with superb animation and it deserved a bigger audience.
The Catholic Church would benefit from RADICAL change. An end to the silly and non-doctrinal code of celibacy. Female priests. Married priests. Lay participation in local and diocesan church councils. Public acknowledgement of, and punishment of bishops, archbishops and priests who took part in knowing placement of abusive priests in new parish assignments.
The fact that Intel is holding the City of Austin up over the price it wants to charge to sell a building for which the City paid major incentives to the company is absolute bullshit. The city should either pay some minimal price (after deducting 100% of all incentives paid to Intel) or sieze it by some sort of "eminent domain" and insist that the Federal government use the building as a new courthouse.
Trett Lott quit his leadership position in the Senate. He stays in the Senate, but he's effectively powerless. I am so happy. This man is a biggot and a pompous ass to boot.
I am, however, grateful that we got to see that bit of akwardness when he appeared on BET to apologize. That was entertaining.
So, since all things in Washington are predictiable and nothing ever changes, the new majority leader has been all but picked. However Frist, while still Republican scum, is at least not the racist pig that good ol' Lott is.
WiFi, wireless internet access also known by the standard number "802.11b" is totally cool. It's available all over the UT campus, for example, and in coffee shops, bars and restaurants all over Austin, like Mozart's, Schlotzsky's, Flipnotics and Mojo's, allowing high-speed net access for anyone with an inexpensive wireless card in their laptop. It's also spawned a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity, with hardware and software companies popping up all over, taking advantage of an effort to make public access points, or "hot spots" a way of life.
Enter the Department of Defense, preparing to rain on this parade. The NY Times is reporting that the Pentagon is Seeking Limits on Wireless Internet Access. With an entire radio spectrum to play with, and $350 billion dollars to spend on technology that uses it, they want to shut off MY internet access?
