Just when I started thinking Saint Louis was a good place to live…

Something like this has to happen: Station to Rerun ‘Average Joe’ Segment

ST. LOUIS (AP) – After Missouri’s own Dick Gephardt finished fourth in the Iowa caucuses, the local NBC affiliate cut away from network programming to broadcast his speech. That didn’t sit so well with the Average Joe.

Viewers jammed KSDK-TV’s switchboard and Web site in the hours after the decision Monday to pull away from the final segment of “Average Joe: Hawaii.”

Gephardt’s concession speech ran over the final nine minutes of the program and beyond. He officially pulled out of the race for the Democratic nomination Tuesday.

NBC granted KSDK permission to rebroadcast the final segment. It was scheduled to air at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.

A statement on the station’s Web site said KSDK understands “the frustration after investing time in a television program and not being able to see how the show ends.”

But for a station whose slogan is, “Where the news comes first,” there really wasn’t any choice, news director Mike Shipley said.

“Unfortunately, we can’t orchestrate when breaking news happens,” Shipley said. “We’d do the same exact thing again. The only thing I wish we could change was the timing.”

It’s bad enough people are actually watching this show, but to invest the time and energy to complain about missing nine minutes – Jeez!

Trent Lott is a Hypocrite

(via Eschaton)

THEN:
“Any appointment of a federal judge during a recess should be opposed.”
— Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) opposing the appointment of an African American judge, December 2000

NOW:
“Judge Pickering’s record deems this recess appointment fully appropriate.”
— Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), 1/17/04

Honestly, is anyone really surprised by Lott’s blatant hypocrisy?

Another George W. Bush Joke

In my email today:

Three Texas surgeons were playing golf together and discussing surgeries they had performed.

One of them said, “I’m the best surgeon in Texas. A concert pianist lost 7 fingers in an accident, I reattached them, and 8 months later he performed a private concert for the Queen of England.”

One of the others said. “That’s nothing. A young man lost both arms and legs in an accident, I reattached them, and 2 years later he won a gold medal in field events in the Olympics.”

The third surgeon said, “You guys are amateurs. Several years ago a cowboy who was high on cocaine and alcohol rode a horse head-on into a train traveling 80 miles an hour. All I had left to work with was the horse’s ass and a cowboy hat. Now he’s president of the United States.”


Summary of 2003

In 2003, 78 posts were added to this web log.

The number of posts in each month:

January:
  3 (3.85%)
February:
  1 (1.28%)
May:
  1 (1.28%)
June:
  1 (1.28%)
July:
  6 (7.69%)
August:
  6 (7.69%)
September:
  11 (14.1%)
October:
  20 (25.64%)
November:
  20 (25.64%)
December:
  9 (11.54%)

The number of posts in each day of week:

Sunday:
  11 (14.1%)
Monday:
  11 (14.1%)
Tuesday:
  12 (15.38%)
Wednesday:
  16 (20.51%)
Thursday:
  12 (15.38%)
Friday:
  9 (11.54%)
Saturday:
  7 (8.97%)

At what hours I publish new posts:

0:
  3 (3.85%)
3:
  1 (1.28%)
4:
  2 (2.56%)
5:
  1 (1.28%)
9:
  2 (2.56%)
10:
  5 (6.41%)
11:
  5 (6.41%)
12:
  6 (7.69%)
13:
  10 (12.82%)
14:
  2 (2.56%)
15:
  3 (3.85%)
16:
  2 (2.56%)
17:
  3 (3.85%)
18:
  1 (1.28%)
19:
  1 (1.28%)
20:
  7 (8.97%)
22:
  14 (17.95%)
23:
  10 (12.82%)

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    Sauron: Offer and Acceptance

    From Letters of Marque:


    “As a small token of your friendship Sauron asks this,” he said: “that you should find this thief,” such was his word, “and get from him, willing or no, a little ring, the least of rings, that once he stole. It is but a trifle that Sauron fancies, and an earnest of your good will. Find it, and three rings that the Dwarf-sires possessed of old shall be returned to you, and the realm of Moria shall be yours for ever. Find only news of the thief, whether he still lives and where, and you shall have great reward and lasting friendship from the Lord. Refuse, and things will not seem so well. Do you refuse?”

    —The Fellowship of the Ring, in “The Council of Elrond”

    It seems to me that’s really two, maybe three separate offers. The first seems to be unambiguously an offer for a unilateral contract (to find the supposedly piddling ring for three of the Dwarf rings of power plus the estate of Moria), to be completed by performance. D�in wouldn’t want to bind himself to produce a ring; it’s too risky. This seems like the straight-forward reward scenario envisioned as a prototypical offer for a unilateral contract.

    …

    Kids, just say NO to law school… 🙂

    H. R. 3687

    WARNING: The text of H. R. 3687 will infect your soul, curve your spine and keep the country from winning the war.


    108th CONGRESS

    1st Session

    H. R. 3687

    To amend section 1464 of title 18, United States Code, to provide for the punishment of certain profane broadcasts, and for other purposes.


    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

    December 8, 2003

    Mr. OSE (for himself and Mr. SMITH of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary


    A BILL

    To amend section 1464 of title 18, United States Code, to provide for the punishment of certain profane broadcasts, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1464 of title 18, United States Code, is amended–

        (1) by inserting `(a)’ before `Whoever’; and

        (2) by adding at the end the following:

    `(b) As used in this section, the term `profane’, used with respect to language, includes the words `shit’, `piss’, `fuck’, `cunt’, `asshole’, and the phrases `cock sucker’, `mother fucker’, and `ass hole’, compound use (including hyphenated compounds) of such words and phrases with each other or with other words or phrases, and other grammatical forms of such words and phrases (including verb, adjective, gerund, participle, and infinitive forms).’.

    It’s a good thing that this `mother fucker‘ and this `cock sucker‘ are making sure the United States Congress is taking time to address the really important issues.

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