Wednesday, August 06, 2003

Lofty Goals. These guys are trying to fly a model airplane across the Atlantic.  The guy who built the models is retired, legally blind, and just about deaf too.  I really, truly hope one of these things makes it across the Atlantic, against all odds.  I wish they had a PayPal address; the attention deficit generation (that's me) needs it to help pay for things. 10:34:50 PM    comment []

George Will Back On Rocker. The Ministry points out this Will article.  It's a fairly astonishing read.  One of the terrible effects of our pull-back-and-pan-to-see-the-universe journalism system is that we miss all of these kinds of small stories.  Fifty states times fifty crazy things...and we really don't see them. On the Texas redistricting: Yes, the GOP is right that they're not breaking any laws.  Is the GOP saying they want a society in which every interaction between human beings is subject to, and guided by, laws?  I think that there could be nothing further from the thoughts of the Founding Fathers. "What can we legally do here" should be the last question these politicians ask themselves.  A good man told me some time ago that all you need to do to succeed in life is do the right thing.  You'll either get rich doing it, or you'll feel like you were on the high road.  Either way, you win. The Texas GOP is cutting away at the foundations, now.  Will is absolutely correct, noting that the floodgates are now open.  Every election is a maybe, and if we're not careful we're going to end up in a permanent state of litigation and campaigning, until an inevitable collapse. 6:38:03 PM    comment []