bfwebster on June 29th, 2008

Frank J.  and Harvey (at IMAO) have all the breaking news. First the Supreme Court decision itself:
JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court.
We consider whether a District of Columbia prohibition on the possession of usable handguns in the home violates the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
We turn first to the meaning of the Second [...]

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bfwebster on June 27th, 2008

Joe Cocker’s cover of “A Little Help from My Friends” at Woodstock in 1969 is legendary for both his spasmotic gyrations and the incomprehensibility of his lyrics. It’s just remarkable fun to watch and listen to (and now you’ll know where John Belushi got those moves from).
But now — and I have to assumue through [...]

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bfwebster on June 25th, 2008

…here’s the latest on the Democratic National Convention coming here to Denver in six weeks or so:

The host committee for the Democratic National Convention wanted 15,000 fanny packs for volunteers. But they had to be made of organic cotton. By unionized labor. In the USA.
Official merchandiser Bob DeMasse scoured the country. His weary conclusion: “That [...]

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bfwebster on June 25th, 2008

As I watch the race-to-the-bottom train wreck that our national Presidential election is turning into — with four more months and two national conventions still ahead of us — I find myself asking, as do so many others, “Just how did we end up here?”
On the one hand, I’m grateful — as a political junkie [...]

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bfwebster on June 21st, 2008

Just talked on the phone with my son Jon (LCPL Jon A. Webster, USMC). His deployment to Iraq is being moved up a few weeks, and he’ll be flying out of Camp Pendleton at the start of July. He’ll try to call one more time before he flies out, but after that we probably won’t [...]

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bfwebster on June 21st, 2008

Gallup has released its latest “public confidence” poll, a survey it has been taking for 35 years. In this poll, the Gallup representative says,
“I am going to read you a list of institutions in American Society. Please tell me how much confidence you, yourself, have in each one — a great deal, quite a lot, [...]

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bfwebster on June 20th, 2008

This story has been making the rounds of the news services and the internet:
NICE guys knew it, now two studies have confirmed it: bad boys get the most girls. The finding may help explain why a nasty suite of antisocial personality traits known as the “dark triad” persists in the human population, despite their potentially [...]

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bfwebster on June 19th, 2008

Daniel Drezner is one of those bloggers I read regularly, even though I don’t always agree with him — and when I don’t agree with him, I consider even more carefully what he has to say, in case I’m wrong.
This paragraph, however, I think is dead on:
You know how Bush officials like to connect any [...]

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bfwebster on June 19th, 2008

My newest Baseline column is up: “Lies, Damned Lies, and Project Metrics (part 3)“. In it, I wrap up my discussion on IT project metrics, outlining a possible approach using instrumentation and heuristics.  Go check it out.  ..bruce..

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Bruce Henderson on June 18th, 2008

Everyone is free to make fun of Southern California and the strange people who live here. After seeing this, I have no rebuttal.

Hat tip to Hot Air.

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