How do you like your pork? Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska , who conveniently serves as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, seems to prefer it buffet style. The Republicans who run Congress (you know, the ones who are ostensibly for “smaller government”) are set to absolutely smash their own pork record set in 1997.


Dan Bricklin has some interesting comments on the Findings of Fact. Most interesting to me are his observations that the Judge bought a lot of the stuff Microsoft says in the trade press, instead of the arguments they made in court. Smart judge.


In case you’ve never seen it, alt.culture is a really useful Web site. Sort of a modern pop culture encyclopedia, it’s great for general background on the subjects they cover.