The snow from the last two February storms is still melting here in Northern, VA (I’ sure that some areas still have piles leftover from the big December storm). So what better time to have another winter weather event.
- Fortunately, this is one looks like it will be remarkable only its inferiority compared to other storms this winter. “ACCUMULATIONS… POTENTIAL FOR SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 5 OR MORE INCHES.” That is unless you live in say, New York, then you may get to bypass the uber-cool thunder-snow phenomenon and go straight into HURRICANE SNOW, snow so intense it makes me think of POWERTHIRST.
- In NASCAR news, someone has accurately captured the Danica-enomenon.
Ok. That’s not entirely fair. But then again, neither is the media coverage of her which, at least up to this point, has constantly been a disservice to her driving skills because it typically only highlights how not-good she is as a driver. - In news of the nanny-state, we learn of the roadblocks faced by Boulder, CO, in becoming some kind of green Mecca.
City officials never dreamed they’d have to play nanny when they set out in 2006 to make Boulder a role model in the fight against global warming. The cause seemed like a natural fit in a place where residents tend to be politically liberal and passionate about the great outdoors.
Instead, as Congress considers how to encourage Americans to conserve more energy, Boulder stands as a cautionary tale about the limits of good intentions.
“What we’ve found is that for the vast majority of people, it’s exceedingly difficult to get them to do much of anything,” says Kevin Doran, a senior research fellow at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
But hey, don’t worry. Despite being dedicated to spending their own money to have the Green Police invade people’s homes, they’re only getting an additional “$370,000 in federal stimulus money”. I think $370k is a fair amount for the American taxpayer to spend to
bribepay greenies to be green. - A bit late, but here are the hot stocks for a new decade. Actually they were the hot stocks of 1999. Those include companies like AOL, TI, and MCI. In other words, the last decade was bad news for the idiots who invested too late in the hot trends of the day. Fortunately people don’t invest that stupidly nowadays.
- In legal news, the case of Jeffrey Skilling, that Enron guy, is going to the Supreme Court. There’s at least a compelling argument that the federal prosecutors who convicted Skilling were overreaching a bit.
the Government’s repeated acknowledgement that Skilling’s case has no precedent in pre-McNally case law (GB17, 49) confirms that this special crime is its own new category, created for the first time in the Government’s brief in this Court.
It is time for prosecutors to stop making up crimes under this statute. If § 1346 is not invalidated altogether, it should be limited to the single category of conduct universally recognized in the case law and hence largely immune from manipulation—quid pro quo bribes and kickbacks.
- Finally, this song has been my favorite song of the last week or two. Here’s Stevie Wonder performing Superstition live on Sesame Street.
