March 18, 2008

  • Semi-Random Thoughts

    1.  Okay so a few of you want to hear my take on Spitzer.  This is going to be a little late, but some of you want to hear my take.  What can I say, he's an idiot.  He wanted to play, but he got caught doing it.  Now, I don't condone what he did, but it happens a lot in politics.  Most of the time people don't get caught, but once in a while they will get caught.  However, what the most pertinent issue is not the fact that an inpropriety was committed; but, how it was committed.  In Spitzer's case, how he screwed up is important.  Okay, it's one thing to pay for a prostitute; it's something else to pay for them to cross state lines.  Instead of breaking state laws that only have a fine attached to it; you are breaking federal laws which involve jail time.  Spitzer, will most likely go to prison, based on the evidence that has been released.  He did the right thing in resigning.  Fighting this would not have been beneficial to his career, nor would he have had a chance.  This is very different from Bill Clinton's deal.  Clinton didn't pay for anything, so no laws were broken in his case (he only perjured himself after the fact).  So, what is my conclusion?  If you're a politician and want to have a discrete relationship be smart, and find a way to either not pay for it or find a way to not have the payment linked to you.  Or better yet, don't, it's just the smarter thing to do.


     2.  In the next few weeks I will be launching my new blog.  Now, before you go and change your bookmark.  This blog will still be active.  The new blog will be dedicated to all things food.  It took me a while to come up with a title.  All the cutesy, play on words titles were taken, so I had some trouble coming up with a good title.  I finally settled on a title a few days ago.  The new blog will be called "The Gourmet Ranger."  Stay tuned for that. 


    3.  http://www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2008/03/18/the-top-10-real-life-star-trek-inventions.html


    I think this is pretty cool.  I really like the concept for transparent aluminum.  I also like the coffin shaped like a photon torpedo.  I'm sure there are some nerds out there that are drooling over the cloaking device and hyperdrive.  And since the Treat of Algeron (if you understand what that is, you're just as big a nerd as I am)hasn't been signed yet, it's okay to develop cloaking technology...for now.  I want a phaser!


    4.  For several weeks now both online and offline I have been saying that I am close to a decision.  Well, to tell the truth I have made a decision.  I just haven't worked up the courage to pull the trigger.  


    5.  http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/ladies/5981/


    I don't think I can say anything more.

Comments (3)

  • ahhhhh...yes, i remembered the treat of algeron. it was much better than the versailles treat or the oslo (honda)accord.

    haha...sorry. when you wrote treat of algeron, i kept thinking of a klingon dangling a treat in front of a dog, which i guess most presumably would be algeron.

  • As Bill Clinton said, and I will give him credit that he says this makes  what he and now what Spitzer did that much worse.  They do these kind of things,...because they can. Their position and power allow them the opportunity to do it and also creates the deception that they are above the law and the morals everyone else should live by. Ans like all of us who do stupid things, and I have too, we just don't think we will get caught.  Indeed we may not, but we still will suffer consequences nonetheless.  Spitzer did get caught and it cost him his office, and probably his political future, not to mention his reputation. In fact he may not be done losing, as he may lose even more than that as time goes by.  Oh if King David were still alive to teach all of us from his won experience, since we don't take the time to read the words written about him and by him in the BOOK.

  • "If you're a politician and want to have a discrete relationship be smart, and find a way to either not pay for it or find a way to not have the payment linked to you.  Or better yet, don't, it's just the smarter thing to do."

    Well, it's hard to argue with that.

    Good luck with your decision.

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