a crank’s progress

I look at the two most recent incidents where he injured or killed someone, once when he crossed the center line and hit a cyclist on the other side of the road, and more recently when he killed Tatsuo Nakata but was unaware he had struck someone until he got out of his car.

…His record of irresponsible driving extends back to before his time here in Seattle, but his record here is bad enough that if the state cannot lift his license, I ask you as leaders in his faith community to help him before someone else gets hurt.

Took me about 27 hours to get it.

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It really comes down to that: there’s nothing Vested Interests won’t do to keep a grip on their power, and fools that would let them do it — would accept money in exchange for weakening their position — don’t have a clue.

…Company critics say the freelance attendees were there to crowd them out; Comcast says they were merely saving seats for employees.

David Vitter steps to the Senate floor fresh from banging a hooker to tell me that marriage is the most important institution EVAR…. And this clown handles religious affairs for a moral scold who’s responsible for hundreds of thousands of needless deaths.

They grasped the central political fact that little can be achieved in Washington unless or until the public is energized and mobilized to push for it; the status quo is simply too powerful…. For purposes of practical electoral strategy as well as high-minded moral aspiration, they never tired of reminding the nation of its founding principles — most fundamentally, that all men are created equal.

But when you say things like “friends can disagree” you have to take into account who you are calling a friend…. As George Washington had it, “Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.”

Complaining about companies is part of the market
Cory has this one nailed.
(tags: information markets business culture values)

I’m not sure I can use all of it, as I had never heard of the E4 process, which the Ektachrome IR film wants (will it yield anything in Diafine?)

…I have never had them with film in them: I have a bag of empty one someone gave me, but this is a first.

We’re not competing with telecom providers, but the volume of data we need to move around the world has grown to the point where in some cases we’ve exceeded the ability traditional players can offer.

…A handful of companies — Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, Google, KDDI Corporation, Pacnet and SingTel — (well, more accurately, their customers) have saturated the network bandwidth provided by companies whose sole purpose is to provide network bandwidth.

Why Fareed Zakaria Likes Barack Obama
Chalk one up for self-awareness, no matter how late it comes.
(tags: culture values politics)