scottobear | Oct. 19th, 2006

In the parking lot after the forensics talk yesterday.

tagged by

christin

Once tagged by this entry, the assignment is to write a blog entry of some kind with six random facts about yourself. Then, pick six of your friends and tag them; no tag backs. This explanation should be included.

six random facts about me:

1. I confuse people who have difficulty with sarcasm, irony, and double entendres.

2. You can randomly access stuff from my brain if you talk to me when I'm very sleepy. Talks about platonic solids or pumpkin rhymes for no reason, as an example.

3. I like blueberry yogurt. especially if there are grape nuts or granola to put on top.

4. I wonder how Newton would do on the road trip to points north.

5. I want to reprogram my brain to think all food that is good for me is as delicious as food that I like that's bad for me.

6. I watch more tv shows and read more books on my pda or psp, than I do on tv, or in tree-based media.

I tag anyone who wants to do it, but in the spirit of the mix: tell me if you do! I hope six people go for it.

via

jwz

Washington Post:

President Bush this morning proudly signed into law a bill that critics consider one of the most un-American in the nation's long history.
The new law vaguely bans torture -- but makes the administration the arbiter of what is torture and what isn't. It allows the president to imprison indefinitely anyone he decides falls under a wide-ranging new definition of unlawful combatant. It suspends the Great Writ of habeas corpus for detainees. It allows coerced testimony at trial. It immunizes retroactively interrogators who may have engaged in torture.

ACLU:

The president can now - with the approval of Congress - indefinitely hold people without charge, take away protections against horrific abuse, put people on trial based on hearsay evidence, authorize trials that can sentence people to death based on testimony literally beaten out of witnesses, and slam shut the courthouse door for habeas petitions. Nothing could be further from the American values we all hold in our hearts than the Military Commissions Act.

Great.

Great Sandwich.

Voting ban for felons could end with next governor (I've been wondering about this for a long time - heres a poll and post from five years ago)
Florida's century-old law banning felons from voting should be abandoned, both candidates for governor say.( Read more... )

1 year ago - Who was ST?, dating in the workplace, hurricane Wilma cat 5, I'm a humanist, Scotto-Spock eyebrow, Newt caught on cam & 80's tv references, general quiz, Yabba dabba doom? Fuggedaboutit,

2 years ago - non-troll text, Graypumpkin gets me interested in Lost, fruit pies,fridge magnet-collaborative, cemetery prairie dogs, bro evicted

3 years ago - unusual case, Roger Bumpass, Carnival Strippers, Swedish Chef, LARGE MARGE!, Elephants, Death Factoids, pootering

4 years ago - Newt Palm art, got Zombies!, NOLF2 is great.

5 years ago - budgeting, happy thoughts, street names, Kev, nice chatties

6 years ago - Dark out, sex factoids, black and blue