http://www.ifiwereking.net The world might not be a better place, but it would make more sense. Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:56:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In her post "Florida, Michigan Democrats: Half a vote" made to The Swamp today, Christi Parsons included this gem: "Meanwhile, backers of Hillary Clinton took the ruling hard because it doesn't fully restore the voting rights of states whose primaries she technically won." I'm sure Mrs Clinton thinks this is ... http://www.ifiwereking.net/2008/06/01/technically-won/ It's over. Period. Obama's vote totals in both North Carolina and Indiana came in better than polls predicted even the day before the election. Unless some truly bizarre revelation surfaces in the next month, something on the order of confirmed accounts of recent pederasty, the campaign for the Democratic presidential ... http://www.ifiwereking.net/2008/05/07/ignore-her-barack/ There are creative people, and then there are exploiters. On behalf of two senators, and presumably their corporate sponsors, the Copyright Office has drafted what's known as the Orphan Works Bill so that when someone wants to publish something that includes a piece of art that he did not create ... http://www.ifiwereking.net/2008/05/04/orphan-works/ I published a selection of quotes from Thomas Jefferson on his birthday (13 April) in Quotes of the Day. For all his warts, Jefferson is among the founders I esteem most highly. Several readers challenged me as to why I didn't use John Adams quotes instead. Well, it wasn't John ... http://www.ifiwereking.net/2008/05/04/john-adams/ Just a few moments ago I read an other-wise helpful piece about recording formats, extolling the "exponential improvement" of CDs over cassette tapes as part of the background to the main story of HD-DVD vs BlueRay. It was the third time this weekend I'd come across similar usage, and the ... http://www.ifiwereking.net/2008/05/04/exponential-illiteracy/ Last month, while I wasn't posting anything, Larkin went to the Democratic caucus for our precinct to declare her preference for Obama over the ice-bitch from New York. When I was much younger I played the political game and was Precinct Committeeman several times. (Political correctness requires the gender-neutral Precinct ... http://www.ifiwereking.net/2008/04/01/what-a-mess/ I'll admit that I seem to carp a lot here. That's the nature of the beast, the things that make us angry are the things that are most likely to send us to our keyboards. So it's great to see, and note, when one of the good guys makes the ... http://www.ifiwereking.net/2008/04/01/nice-guys-want-to-stop-the-war-on-some-drugs-too/ In today's New York Times, this article by Sam Dillon reports that US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will soon introduce regulations that require a consistent formula for calculating dropout rates across all states. Wow! What a concept! Apparently, there are a lot of kids dropping out of school, and ... http://www.ifiwereking.net/2008/04/01/inept-at-the-top-dropping-out-at-the-bottom/ Everybody's talking about foreclosure. I've been through it myself. The castle was foreclosed in 2003, at least partially as a result of a stroke I suffered the year before. I'm not proud of it, but you should know. The question seems to be, should the public till be tapped to ... http://www.ifiwereking.net/2008/03/31/foreclosure/ Okay, I'll admit it, I've been delinquent in keeping up here. I'll try to do better. I wrote hundreds of e-mails, some of which probably would have been excellent fodder for posts here had I really been on top of it, but I didn't. In the interim, here's my most ... http://www.ifiwereking.net/2008/03/31/delinquency/