Apr
22
2009

URLs du Jour

2009-04-22

  • The NH Democratic Party's effort to respond to people who expressed concerns about increased spending and taxes via last week's tea parties:
    "They looked like they lost their minds," said Ray Buckley, Chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party of the protesters.
    Also Mr. Buckley referred to partygoers as an "unhinged mob."

    I was at the Manchester event, and it didn't look like an unhinged mob to me.

    Although, according to Mr. Buckley, I've lost my mind, so you might not want to take my word for it.

  • Granite Staters should take note of this post from Genius UCLA Law Prof Eugene Volokh: it is illegal in the state of New Hampshire to posess or control an "infernal machine."

    I have, on occasion, referred to the computer systems under my responsibility as "infernal machines." I think I better stop doing that now.

    (Exact statute wording here in case you want to make sure yourself. Actually, the whole section of the NH code is full of stuff you might not have known you couldn't do, like take movie film on a train ride or sell low temperature flashpoint stove polish. )

  • In other news, I got 13/16 on the BBook of Geek Internet Quiz. It was hard!