7. February, 2003 - cold, cold, cold

• According to the Current Weather Conditions at Crystal Airport, it's 13 below, Fahrenheit as I write this. That's -25C for you more metric types. Downright chilly. Cold, Cold, Cold, one might say. Yesterday was cold too. And it's put me in something of a "hunker down for the winter" mode. I haven't been spending as much time surfing and the things I'm reading don't seem as interesting. Plus I'm a bit behind on work, having lost Monday and a fair bit of Tuesday, so I'm trying to play catch-up there. Thus the light linkage again.
• I realized I've been slacking off on putting up recipes lately, so I typed up my generic fried rice recipe. It's nothing fancy, just the base recipe that I modify depending on what my taste-buds feel like tasting that day.
• Shaving habits linked to stroke risk. Men who shave at least once a day are less likely to have strokes. But they didn't include men with beards in the study, so I don't have to worry about my head exploding just yet. [holy schmoly]
• The Minneapolis Bill of Rights Defense Committee is trying to introduce a resolution opposing USA-PATRIOT at the Minneapolis City Council meeting a week from today. While I like the cause, I don't think that this is City Council business any more than I thought resolutions opposing war in Iraq were City Council business.
• Groups call on Coble for apology for saying that the Americans (of Japanese ancestry) who were locked up in concentration camps during WWII were put there for their own protection, never mind their rights. Is this going to turn into as much of a problem as Trent Lott's comments did? Could be, especially since Coble heads up the Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, the group in charge of writing laws to take away our freedom in the name of illusory safety. The thing that I think is going to hurt Coble the most is that, like Lott, rather than coming out and saying "what I said was wrong", he tried to spin it. Is it overly optimistic to hope that Americans have gotten fed up with politicians trying to use terminological inexactitudes to explain things away, and want to hear the truth?
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