The weekend was pretty quiet. I went out on Friday night and had some fun. Woke up on Saturday and bopped up to mom’s to take her and her roommate (whose birthday was this weekend) out for lunch and some shopping, and then laid around home watching movies. Sunday, I mixed it up between reading and watching movies, but generally just laid low. Nothing exciting at all.
And that was the perfect weekend. This week is going to be another busy one. Last week, I had something scheduled for every day of the week, and this week is looking similar. Plus the Saints are back in town after the all-star break for a four-game stand this week, so my evenings will be busy.
- This weekend, the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks earn sweep over Saints, dropping the Saints to 3-6 for the second half. This is what I was afraid would happen after winning the first half of the season, and hopefully the Saints aren’t going to slump too hard before getting back in the gas. Fargo, on the other hand, won the first half in their division and has gone 8-1 in the second half. That’s the kind of performance I’d like to see. [press-patch]
- Pat Kessler’s Reality Check on WCCO has been interesting of late. He’s profiled Tim Pawlenty’s Cigarette “fees”, state congress-critters who didn’t bother showing up for work (though you could say that was a GOOD thing), and bad laws slipped in at the last minute (which doesn’t have a working link at the moment, but it’s accesible via flash). And that’s just in the past week. And the beauty of it is that the stories are all on the website, so you don’t even have to turn on the TV.
- The ACLU has a long list of Myths & Realities about the PATRIOT Act. [fark!]
- Bruce Schneier takes a look at the GAO report on Secure Flight and finds that the TSA broke the law, misled the public, and had not met nine of the ten conditions Congress set before they were allowed to start spending money on Secure Flight. Behind schedule, over budget, and breaking the law. Sheesh. [schneier]
- Charley Reese asks Should Your Personal Life Be an Affair of State? That’s the biggest single political disagreement I end up having with people. Of course nobody wants the state in their personal life, but they’re fine in having it snooping into mine.
What Americans need to realize is that it is impossible to increase government power without decreasing individual liberty.
[endwar] - In some local Kelo fallout, High court’s eminent domain ruling touches a nerve, and has prompted many Minnesotans to get involved in trying to reform eminent-domain laws. [press-patch]