Three movies
It's ComplicatedMeryl Streep is always fun to watch, and both Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are good too. This movie is light-years better than The Holiday was. But Nancy Meyers is a very uneven writer. Some of the scenes just sing, and others feel pointless. Some characters even feel pointless. Still, when it's on, it's pretty good. Young VictoriaI was disappointed by this movie. It did make me want to read a biography of Victoria, but the movie itself didn't strike me much. Mary called it "pleasant" and I would add the word "enough" to it. "Pleasant enough." Nothing great, Read more…
Not sure about 104.5 KMCQ
Last summer I discovered that KMCQ at 104.5 is a fairly good station for Oldies. Their playlist is a little narrower than KBSG used to be, but it's the only station in the area where you can hear some of the pop songs from the 50s and 60s. But the station seems like it's just run out of some guy's house or something. A few times I'll find dead air when I flip past it, sometimes for 12 hours or more on end. One day last week every time I checked in their songs were skipping. They don't even have Read more…
So excited to see our first box arrive from Terra Organics!
We’ve already started in on the vegetable-y goodness.
“Don’t be evil.”
These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially Read more…
“Mr. Smith Rewrites the Constitution”
For the record, nothing like Senate Rule 22 appears in the Constitution, nor was there unlimited debate until Vice President Aaron Burr presided over the Senate in the early 180os. In 1917, after a century of chaos, the Senate put in the old Rule 22 to stop unlimited filibusters. Because it was about stopping real, often distressing, floor debate, one might have been able to defend that rule under Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution, which says, “Each house may determine the rule of its proceedings.” As revised in 1975, Senate Rule 22 seemed to be an improvement: it Read more…
Here’s a tip
Twice this year, thanks to tax-related questions for Mary Holste Design, I've wanted to talk to the IRS and ask some questions. And I now emerge with some words of advice. Never, never, NEVER, call the IRS. It will take forever and most likely you will never actually talk to the right person. The last time I called, I got bounced around to a million different departments, because no one could understand my question. Instead, visit them! If you're in Tacoma, the IRS has an office in the Wells Fargo building. I've never had to wait to talk to a Read more…
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