24. October, 2002 - humor - local news - politics
- Feeling a little grumpy? Go ahead and slap a mime. It made me laugh. [davezilla]
- What European Tribes Think About One Another in a few handy charts. I can't find any part that's enough better than all the rest to excerpt to convince you to go there. It's all good. [boing boing]
- Let the River Run is a City Pages article from a couple weeks ago. It talks about the possibility of removing the locks and dams from the Mississippi above the confluence with the Minnesota. The only real snags are that the City of Minneapolis gets all its water from the pool created by the dam at St. Anthony Falls and the Falls are unstable so without a dam there, they'd erode into a long set of rapids. I wonder what that'd do to Nicollet Island....
- U helps put 1880 census online which is a swell thing for people researching their family history. Not so helpful for me though. The Polascheks didn't get to America until 1889. [strib]
- Ventura may resign early, make Schunk governor for a few days. She doesn't think that's the right way to become Minnesota's first female governor. [strib]
- The Free State Project's goal is
Liberty in Our Lifetime
. The plan is to do it by having liberty-minded folks all move to one state, and elect a better kind of congress-critter. [endwar]
- P2P hacking bill may be amended. At least that's what Berman's aide was saying. And the assistant secretary of commerce said
I do hope and believe that government can play a constructive role.
Ah-HAH! There's the crucial misunderstanding. They're thinking I'm from the government and I'm here to help,
which is right up there with I'll respect you in the morning.
[scripting]
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Thu, 24 Oct 2002 07:52:05.