It’s a little ego-deflating when the first semi-active Message Board thread (OK, it’s just me and one other person, but still…) in months is spurred not by anything I wrote, but by my reaction to another essay…

Alas…

Caught an intersting movie tonight. Any flick from 1964 which features a line like “I don’t care if he enjoyed carnal knowlege of a McCormick reaper” can’t be all bad…

So Rich took much better pictures than I did…

Bad idea: waiting until the last minute to do some domain-related stuff for a friend, thinking it will take about five minutes and then realizing that the system by which his registrar makes these changes is disturbingly convoluted and that nothing is working…

Sometimes I long to be one of those people with good old-fashioned, simple, AOL-type problems, like wondering why I can’t switch between my “manhole4u” and “2q2bstr8” screen names, or why I never seem to score anything from any of those “win the lottery” email messages I keep answering…

Anyone who disagrees with the idea that hate crime laws are tantamount to government legislation of individual thought should ponder this: in just about every state, you will face a stiffer penalty for murder if that murder occurred while you were also committing another crime (say, armed robbery). Hate crime legislation essentially places certain unpopular THOUGHTS in the same category with violent crimes…

I was sort of horrified to read recently that California has a law specifically banning the burning of a cross on someone else’s property “for the purpose of terrorizing the owner or occupant.” Why, pray tell, would it be legal to burn ANYTHING on ANYONE else’s property without their permission, regardless of motive? Doing so is just about always a threat, both to public safety and to the neighbor in question, and it’s most definitely not free speech…