Carroll O'Connor, RIP
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RIP, dude. "Edith, stifle yourself!" Has anyone else noticed that
links to stories at the Times come up as a blank page until you
refresh them?
Dave Winer has the
theme song (243K wav) to "All in the Family". I converted it to
mp3 format (84k).
Archie, his wife, Edith (Jean Stapleton); daughter, Gloria (Sally Struthers); and his son-in-law, Mike Stivic (Rob Reiner) were the main protagonists in "All in the Family," which was set mostly in Archie's spartan living room. The show was the creation of Norman Lear, who adapted it from "Till Death Do Us Part," a BBC series. In its American incarnation, the comedy became groundbreaking social satire.
John McCabe at loony.org - What ARE you smoking? - John has switched to clove cigarettes. He gets strange reactions, even from other smokers. I remember smoking clove cigarettes back in 1982 standing in line for the Rocky Horror Picture outside the Essex Theater in Boston wearing my brown leather motorcycle jacket. It was a fun few months. Glad it's over.
Guardian Unlimited Observer - How global battle against drugs risks backfiring - They're spraying Roundup Ultra on Colombia with the intention of killing coca plants. It's killing food crops and making people sick, but the coca plants are doing fine, thank you very much. kuro5hin discussion here. I posted the following comment: [kuro5hin]
Can you say "crime against humanity"?
It's time to execute the drug warriors. They've gone too far. Way too far.
Pete Brady at Cannabis Culture - Kubbys launch lawsuit - Steve Kubby is suing "Placer County, sheriff Ed Bonner, District Attorney Brad Fenocchio, prosecutors Chris Cattran and Gene Geni, and lead investigator Michael Lyke". The suit "alleges that Placer officials violated the Americans With Disabilities Act, committed crimes including assault and battery, trespass and false imprisonment, deliberately inflicted emotional distress, bankrupted them, and violated Prop. 215, the medical marijuana law that Kubby helped pass in 1996." Good luck, Mr. Kubby. Bankrupt those assholes. [unknown]
If the lawsuit is not settled out of court and proceeds to trial, Kubby says, a jury will see "that the drug war has made criminals out of people who are supposed to uphold the law, and has made victims out of people who were obeying the law by medically using a healing plant."
Charley Reese at the Orlando Sentinel - Smug global-warming crowd should cool it about report - Mr. Reese concurs with Richard S. Lindzen's global warming piece in the June 11 WSJ. He also recommends john-daly.com, John L. Daly's "Still Waiting for Greenhouse" site from Tasmania containing a wealth of information about the global warming farce. [lew]
Robin Eisner at ABC News - What's a New Mother to Do? - infants should be fed exclusively breast milk for their first six months of life. Not news to me, that's how Karla grew our kids, but nice to see it in the mainstream press. [lew]
Charli Coon at The Heritage Foundation - Making Energy Woes Worse - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has caved in to Gray Davis' request for federal eletricity price controls. The blackouts won't be far behind. Fools. [market]
The idea that prices must remain free of government controls for markets to work efficiently isn't a matter of "conservative" or "liberal" ideology -- it's economic fact. As Robert Litan of the center-left Brookings Institution recently noted, "95 percent of economists would say that price controls are always dumb or that there should be a very strong presumption against price controls. They lead to artificial scarcity and then perpetuate it."
To get an idea of how well FERC's "price mitigation plan" is likely to work, recall the nationwide price controls on oil imposed by President Richard Nixon in the 1970s. As with the current crisis, the objective was to ensure petroleum products (particularly gasoline) remained affordable.
Ed Foster's Gripe Line at InfoWorld - Redmond reinvents whip - Microsoft is hiring law firms to "request" license audits of companies who aren't buying enough licenses direct from the evil empire.
A legal threat from the most powerful company in the world is a hard thing for a small company to defy.
Joel on Software - It's here! - Joel Spolsky's book, User Interface Design for Programmers, is finally out in dead-tree form. He's offerring autographed copies for $29.95. [joel]
