nyway and sticking with a single text editor is easier on my head than switching back and forth. I also desperately need a spell checker. However, I don’t want folks to read my blog and see a bunch of @$#%@ instead of elegantly composed prose. (Or is it semiliterate gibberish? I’m not the one to judge.)
However, MS Publisher does provide a couple of 'Unicode' fonts that appear to me to be pretty much straight ASCII code. I’m composing this post in Unicode to see what happens when I blog it. In the mean time, please don’t be bashful about emailing me if you have any problems reading my blog or anything is coming through garbled on your end. I can’t promise I’ll fix the problem, as I have no clue how to make any of this compatible with Apples, Unix, Linux, or what have you, but if I don’t know about the problem it’s a sure bet it won’t get fixed..
Hmm. Unicode quotes characters still come through as little black boxes in Blogger's editor. I've manually retyped all the quotes in this post, but that is a huge pain. Ah well, I'll keep working at it.
Saturday, March 16, 2002- - -
Great minds think [somewhat] alike?
Personally, in times of indecision I always ask ‘What Would Machiavelli Do?’ I’m beginning to suspect similar thought patterns from the Bush II administration.
Local Blogger Makes Good!
Outstanding! I see that we have a new ‘semi-pro’ in the ranks. Megan McArdle writes about Netscape’s Folly in Thursday’s Salon.
Via Anton Sherwood, I’ve noticed these quasi-libertarians cropping up in letters to the editor at Reason and Liberty (no active website). A frequent argument of this set parallels that espoused by Bill Bennett a couple years back—that the public school teacher’s First Amendment rights ought to trump your right not to have your children proselytized in school by their teachers.
Regardless of the issue, the message seems always the same: “Freedom for me, but not for thee.” I would hope that most folks see this as the perversion of the libertarian ideal that it is.
Friday, March 15, 2002- - -
Bill Quick unleashes his trademark caustic wit on Reuters. But I always thought it rhymed with hooters, rooters, as in ‘little pigs.’
Hmm. Yes, although their tactics were reprehensible and despicable, the donkeys did save us from Bob Bork.
Tipper should be committed as a public service.
Yep. Lure all the tourists in so they’ll spend their money. That’s a great way to build your economy. and your kids will be able to get good jobs at those resorts. Making beds, waiting, tables, and cleaning the pool.
Yes, but. Those governments don’t want their people partaking of the fruits of the 21st century. Socialism, communism, reactionary Islam, and tyranny are all defunct strategies in the 21st century. They don’t want to go there.
Some hopeful noises are finally being made on the Indian Trust issue
In response to questions posed by lawmakers who expressed skepticism that the broken system could ever be fixed, senior officials said Indian Country probably won't accept an effective termination of the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust. "I don't personally think that the individual Indian allottees would think that is the right idea," said Deputy [Interior] Secretary J. Steven Griles. ..
Why, of course not. Who would want to be let alone to manage their own affairs?
"But that doesn't mean it isn't the right idea," he quickly added. ..
.. Griles and Swimmer told members of the House Interior Appropriations subcommittee that certain problems could be avoided if Congress stepped in. If the land remained free of local and state taxation, stayed within reservation boundaries and was kept out of non-Indian hands, they said eliminating the IIM trust might work.
"I think there obviously is some value . . . if there were a way to having less than a full trust duty to those properties," said Swimmer.
Made during an oversight hearing on trust reform, yesterday's remarks were the first concrete admission that the Bush administration would accept some sort of dismantling of the individual system. The issue was raised briefly last month by Associ