The Furious Spinner

As you probably heard, Bush has thrown out Clinton's roadless rules and is opening up our national forests again for even more exploitation. If you want to help stop him, go here. The site also has some amusing (and depressingly true) cartoons.

But there's hope! There's hope! Check out the "Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004." If they're right, we might be saving ourselves after all.

I'm reading the 9/ll Commission Final Report. So far, I'm surprised at how unsophisticated our security systems are. Ain't nothing like the movies. Several of the terrorists set off the CAPPS, (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System). However, the only consequence of this "alarm" was that their baggage wasn't put on the plane until they got on the plane. I would have thought that if the CAPPS system was triggered several times at around the same time in several airports, this would then trigger another level of alarm. But it doesn't. (Perhaps CAPPS is constantly targeting people, so it wouldn't be unusual for several people to be triggering the "alarm" at the same time.)

Still oozing but I finally fell to sleep at 4:30 a .m. and got about five hours of sleep.
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