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10.24.2001 15:37
Guns on Planes
Now, don’t get me wrong, I am not advocating any terrorist activities, but doesn’t this seem messed up? The terrorists supposedly brought box cutters on the doomed September 11 planes… at the time, this was legal. Now, this man “accidentally” brought a gun on board a plane -- which is illegal during the best of times -- and he isn’t even getting a wrist slap? One hundred bucks says that he is blond and from Iowa.
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10.22.2001 10:17
More Kat Commentary
I heard the other day as a footnote on an NPR story that the leaders of all European countries met, and one of the things that they discussed was the possible development of a pan-European police force and way to issue European-wide arrest warrants. Now coupling this with the fact that many of them are already sharing the Euro (with some exceptions), and already have some European cultural ministries, wouldn’t having this arrest law lead to a federal type system and having European police really just lead to a United State of Europe? Loose as a federal system might be, I think that they would have it hard pressed to make pan-European laws work. Can you image the drug-liberal Dutch mixing with the hard-nosed Germans on those type of laws or marriage and domestic partnership laws between Sweden and Italy?
I know that I am extrapolating a lot here, given that there are different laws in different US states too, but I can see this leading to inter-European problems than solutions, albeit “peaceful” problems.
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10.19.2001 10:29
Watch Mr. Bush dance! The aerobics are very funny too.
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10.15.2001 17:01
Kat Rant
So my latest pet-peeve is about people being so overly suspicious of white power, that some moron called 911 after seeing a pile of white powder in a laundromat. Now, wouldn’t it be reasonable to assume that it’s washing powder, not anthrax? Additionally, I think that it’s absurd to think that anyone would specifically be trying to cause the downfall of the United States by taking down the country one laundromat at a time…
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10.11.2001 12:19
Stormy Weather
Last night, at 1:00 AM, we had one of the worst thunderstorms that I have ever been in, and that says a lot given the storms that would roll across St. Louis the summer that I lived there. It was pretty funny, actually. I was sleeping so soundly that I missed the first few, they sort of melded into the nightmare that I was having about bombing Afghanistan. Then I realized that rumbling was for real and that it was “only” thunder. I swear that some of those lightening bolts hit our neighborhood. Ben got up to watch the hail pile up on the deck, and lightening totally illuminated the room, pretty much blinding both of us. It was pretty incredible.
This morning, when I left for work in the dark, there were still piles of hail on the lawn, probably a few inches deep in some places. It looked a little like a snowstorm had selectively covered the suburbs.
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10.07.2001 20:16
Serendipity
We went to see the new Cusack movie, Serendipity, today. It’s a typical Cusack romantic comedy, but I quite liked it. I won’t give away the plot beyond the obvious (he gets the girl in the end. He always gets the girl in the end…). It had a bit of a strange cast: John Cusack, of-course, and Kate Beckinsale, but also one of the silly Saturday Night Live women as the best friend, and the guy from Northern Exposure as the new age musician. It’s a New York movie, and it was good to see that they hadn’t edited out any of the images of the World Trade Center (although there weren’t too many sweeping views of NYC skylines anyway).
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10.05.2001 13:16
Eating out
This week hasn’t given me much to write about. Last night, however, some friends decided to meet for drinks at the Palace Kitchen from drinks, so Ben and I decided to venture into the city as well. It’s amazing that while we say that we ‘live in Seattle’ to those people who aren’t here, but we really do live quite a ways away. Traffic was bearable, however, and the drive into the city only took 45 minutes from the house, even at rush hour. We had planned to go to dinner at Dahlia’s Lounge, another one of Tom Douglas’ restaurants before hand, but were summarily turned away without reservations at 6 on a Thursday. We ended up at the Icon Grill where I had yummy Potato Wrapped Halibut, pictured here. The Palace Kitchen seems like a nice enough place. I don’t like their bar set up, in the center, with not much of a cozy place to hang out. And as usual, having to shout to be heard. I guess the greatest upside was that no one smoked.
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10.05.2001 12:51
"We got married!": So, last weekend the Bangor Daily News ran Alix and Michi’s wedding announcement.
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10.05.2001 12:36
The Onion is always funny, but particularly good was their September 26, 2001 edition.
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10.03.2001 13:03
Peter Pan: Second star to the right and straight on to insanity.
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