September 11th, 2004

The bottom line is this: TXU wants to charge poor people a higher rate than they charge rich people. Why? Because those poor people were having trouble paying the lower rate. slacktivist (via Eschaton)  

90% of the spam I get today is still so hopelessly naive about spam filters that it would even get caught by the pathetic junk filter built into Microsoft Outlook, and you’ve got to have really lame spam to get caught by that scrawny smattering of simplistic searchphrases. Joel on Software  

Back in May, I whined that Jeremy Hedley of Antipixel would get better pictures than me even if he was using a drugstore disposable. Well, OK, so it turned out to be a cellphone camera. Sigh. ongoing  

Shame on us. Lawrence Lessig  

By the way, I can’t help contrasting the right-wing bloggers gleeful deconstruction what may be phony memos with some folks’ continuing promotion of Swift Boaters for “Truth” — people whose falsehoods and distortions have been made abundantly clear. Dan Gillmor’s eJournal  

One moral of this story: If you put a picture of a chimpanzee next to a picture of George W. Bush, line them up exactly, and shrink them down to only a few pixels across, they’ll look pretty much the same, at that resolution. Whether you think that proves anything depends on your point of view. Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.  

The ten nominees blocked so far by filibusters include, for example, California Supreme Court justice Janice Brown, who has called the Supreme Court’s 1937 decisions upholding Social Security, minimum wage, and other basic social legislation a “disaster” of “epic proportions.” ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society  

By the end of the month, we will show the American people that a vote for Kerry is a vote that consigns their children to agonizing, fiery deaths. Michael Bérubé Online  

as soon as she had turned around, he bolted for the stairs and i stood there looking around to see if the railing on the roof might be loose anywhere so i could throw myself off the top of the building with the least amount of effort. tequila mockingbird