The View from Chaos Manor June 25, 2011

The View from Chaos Manor

June 25, 2011

 

The New View SSPS Reconsidered

 

 

THE NEW VIEW

 

This is a production experiment: that is, due to the imminent closure of my wonderful old ISP [...]

VIEW Sunday June 26, 2011

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Corpus Christi

 

New System The Rochester Arrest Adventures

 

Second Day of New System

 

At the moment the WordPress system seems to be working but mail to jerryp@jerrypournelle.com is not getting to me. It will by the end [...]

View Week 681 Monday, June 27, 2011

View Week 681 Monday, June 27, 2011 – 1

 

ON FLAKES AND FLAKINESS

 

Is Chris Wallace a Flake?

 

Fox News reporter Chris Wallace, who is certainly no liberal, decided that he would throw Michele Bachmann a softball. He has now apologized. He needs [...]

View 681 June 27 Reynolds

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The Lochner Ness Monster

I haven’t thought about Lochner v. NY since I taught Constitutional Law at Pepperdine a very great many years ago. Of course most people have never thought about it at all, so that’s hardly astonishing, and most [...]

View Week 681 June 27 2011 – 3

View Week 681 June 27, 2011 – 3]

 

I set up a bunch of mail only to be told that it will not publish. The problem seems to be related to very long links, but I am not sure. I don’t understand cascading style sheets but then [...]

Judgment Days 681/2011-06-28-1

View Week 681 Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Yesterday was Supreme Court Monday, and we heard the wisdom from on high in Washington. We also heard from the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which issued warrants for the arrest and life imprisonment of Qaddaffi and his sons. Of course [...]

The Experiment Continues 681 2011-06-28-2

View 681 Tuesday June 28, 2011 – 2

I continue to work with WordPress and the new system for View and Mail. I miss being able to look over the day’s work and add to it, and there are other changes to get used to.

Meanwhile, there’s to [...]

Flooding the Heartland 2011-06-29-1

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We will be out of Internet contact for the day and possibly until tomorrow.

I haven’t time to write an essay this morning, but I will have time for thought during the day, and I will be able to collect my mail [...]

Silly Dialup View 681 20110630 – 1

View 681 Thursday June 30, 2011

I do these silly things so you don’t have to. This is one of them. For reasons I’ll get to when I have high speed connectivity, I am at the moment working with dialup, using the built-in modem in my ThinkPad and my [...]

California vs. Amazon View 681 2011 June 30

View 681 Thursday, June 30, 2011 – 2

California today passed what the governor is pleased to call a balanced budget without new taxes. There were new taxes, of course. One of them was another dodge to collect sales taxes on Internet sales. This time California has levied a [...]