I just wanted to say that I heard a tape of Rep. John Sweeney’s talking about his “shut it down” comment on the radio today, and Carl Hiaassen was wrong, Sweeney was saying to shut down the recount, not shut down the protest. Again, I don’t think the protest intimidated the canvassing board in Dade [...]
Entries from November 2000
November 30th, 2000 · Comments Off
November 30th, 2000 · Comments Off
Steve pointed to this transcript of a Tom Daschle/Dick Gephardt press conference in which they make the point that the uncounted votes in Florida will be available through the FOIA, so it’s in Bush’s best interests to go ahead and have all the votes counted now. I heard a rumor yesterday that I have not [...]
November 30th, 2000 · Comments Off
As a followup on the Miami riot thing, here’s a link to a column by Carl Hiaassen on the incident. He says that GOP Rep. John Sweeney’s “Shut it down” statement was in reference to the protest, not the recount, contradicting the Salon article I linked to yesterday. For what it’s worth, I [...]
November 29th, 2000 · Comments Off
Some ideas are just bad.
November 29th, 2000 · Comments Off
This is what we refer to as an industrywide problem.
November 29th, 2000 · Comments Off
Microsoft’s purchase circle at Amazon.com is kind of funny, I thought the antitrust stuff wasn’t a distraction.
November 29th, 2000 · Comments Off
A really ugly story is developing around the riots at the site of Miami’s recount headquarters. Apparently the rioters were mostly out of towners brought in by the Republicans to sow chaos and discourage Miami-Dade County from continuing with their recount. And by Republicans, I mean elected officials like Trent Lott and Tom [...]
November 29th, 2000 · Comments Off
These coins kind of scare me.
November 28th, 2000 · Comments Off
Today, the Supreme Court struck a blow against the police state in ruling that random roadblocks set up for the purpose of catching drug traffickers are unconstitutional. Unsurprisingly, arch-conservative justices Rehnquist, Thomas, and Scalia joined in a dissent.
November 28th, 2000 · Comments Off
Salon has combined its technology and business sections. I hope this doesn’t mean that they’ll be reducing their tech coverage, which is generally excellent.