14. December, 2003 - Saddam Hussein captured
- ‘We got him’ – Saddam Hussein arrested in Iraq. Dave Winer has ongoing coverage, and sdb has some commentary.
- Here’s a story of another senseless death in Iraq that touched me more than most. [acidman]
- FBI Applies New Rules to Surveillance conducting more searches and wiretaps that are subject to oversight only by a secret intelligence court rather than regular criminal courts.
- Newbies are our amusement in snow emergencies, as they do things like park their car in the street so their driveway will be easier to clear in the morning. [press-patch]
- The delay in yesterday’s posting (I didn’t get it done until 4:30 in the afternoon) was due to a big evening out on Friday night. I spent Friday evening at Keegan’s Pub spending a big wad of cash again ($80 seems a bit extreme for an evening in a bar). But part of the reason I stuck around there was that there were interesting people to watch and talk to. Just one example from the evening was a guy and a gal who sat down near me. At some point it came up that the guy was gay. Another guy sitting next to me said something about Queer Eye and the gay explained as how he was a cosmetologist and liked to think of himself as
the Minneapolis version of Kyan
(no real surprises – I “need” a haircut, shave, plucked eyebrows, and a ton of “product”). That’s the kind of encounter that makes an evening fun enough that I’ll probably continue to head down there once in a while, even if the prices are a little steeper than I’d prefer. Besides, over the course of the evening, we pretty much solved all the world’s problems. Now if I could just remember the solutions…
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:19:54.