Necessary Roughness

two kingdoms, hundreds of thousands of miles

Archive for May, 2007

Ohio Reps. Vote on “Price Gouging”
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

I am going back and forth on whether this vote or the vote to sue OPEC is the stupidest vote the House has made in recent memory. Since this vote actually has meaningful results, I went for this one.
The bill calls for criminal penalties of up to $150 million for corporations and up to $2 [...]

Rock Springs Leg
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

It had been several years since I had flown to Rock Springs, but the memories came back as I boarded the Beech 1200D turboprop, a plane I have repeatedly referred to as a trash can with wings. This plane at least had a little bit of insulation on the interior walls, and I was glad [...]

United Flight
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

I’m currently waiting out a change in planes in Denver. I noticed several things about the first leg of my flight:
Pretzels and drinks are free. If you want a shrink-wrapped snack box with canned meat, cheese, and miniature Toblerone, $5. I passed. The first time I flew to Denver on United, perhaps 5 [...]

Props to Heroes
Monday, May 21st, 2007

What a cool run the NBC show “Heroes” has had. Every show has been awesome, and I’m glad we’ve been able to record the times I’ve missed. The writing, special effects, and actors have been terrific. The commentary on the web site has been cool too, whenever the bandwidth allows.
It’s a nice thing to see [...]

Musical Piety
Monday, May 21st, 2007

Carol Rutz has posted a video by one of her favorite bands, Depeche Mode. We have a couple Depeche Mode albums at the house. Paralleling the Eminem discussion in the Lutheran blogosphere, but hopefully keeping the debate reasonable without name-calling as happened in the Eminem debates on other blogs, I think there are things to [...]