Take your victories where you find them. A bankruptcy bill highly favorable to those charmers in the bank card industry went down to defeat in the House yesterday, apparently because it included language which denied anti-abortion protesters the right to use bankruptcy courts to write off court fines.
Damn Democrats. First they let Bush take credit for the Homeland Security Department idea, which he resisted for months. Now they seem to have let him have a large amount of influence over the makeup of an independent commission to investigate September 11, another thing he resisted for months. Where the hell did they leave their guts, and more importantly, their political skills? They've now given the impression that they were the roadblock, not the Administration.
A new bill allows smaller webcasters to negotiate lower royalty rates for music than the earlier one; that may save college radio stations, which seems to be an unintended consequence. Oh, and here's everything some of what you wanted to know about the marriage of techies and movies (or geeks and moguls, as the article puts it). Finally, for any parents thinking of a Christmas PC for a munchkin, prices are dropping like crazy.
Oh, Jen's cup is so cute, and you guys make the sweetest blog buddy couple I've seen so far. ;-)
Posted by: Lee at November 16, 2002 06:17 AMAh, if only there were no continent and ocean between us! Sigh...:)
Posted by: Linkmeister at November 16, 2002 08:02 AMUm...what? Couple? You people stop spreading rumors while I'm offline, dagnabbit! :P
We do have an office in Honolulu, you know. I could transfer. Heh. ;)
Posted by: Jen at November 16, 2002 07:03 PMI know all too well about that office in Honolulu, yes. I trained a whole bunch of fresh-out-of-school junior auditors from that office.
Posted by: Linkmeister at November 16, 2002 07:12 PM