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CNN.com - McCain: Congress spending money ‘like a drunken sailor’ - Nov. 30, 2003 “The president cannot say, as he has many times, that I am going to tell Congress to enforce some spending discipline and then not veto bills,” McCain said. “We are laying a burden of debt on future generations of Americans. … Any economist will tell you, you cannot have this level of debt, of increasing deficits without eventually it affecting interest rates and inflation,” he added. McCain, who challenged Bush for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, took particular issue with the massive energy bill, which in beginning stages cost $8 billion, a total that rocketed up with dozens of provisions inserted to benefit the districts of individual lawmakers to win their support. “There was no policy initiatives in the energy policy. It was just one pork barrel project larded onto another,” he said. “… And the administration is still saying it is one of its highest priorities, I don’t know how you rationalize that.”

My first Louisiana Thanksgiving. Deep fried turkey, oyster dressing, cornbread and crawfish stuffing, pea gravy, sweet potatos, and of course a turducken. The food and a bunch of Grey Goose, and I’m fine. And damn, I don’t think my couch has ever been as comfortable. Remember this? WKRP in Cincinnati - Turkey Drop Audio

If this turns out to be true, it’ll be most interesting. Oh yeah, fuck SCO. Source Claims SCO Will Sue Google (LinuxWorld) A source claiming to be in the know says that the SCO Group is going to sue Google for not paying its Linux taxes.

I need you to ignore two things: - one that this guy was surfing CP - two that this write up is funny as hell: Pantless driver charged over kiddie porn … after busting a man driving the wrong way down a one-way street while downloading child porn using stolen wireless Internet signals. The slow-moving car was pulled over around 5 a.m. by a police officer who allegedly found the driver - with no pants on - watching a movie on his laptop … “ And think for a minute - someone got popped for theft of service for connecting wirelessly to some open residental AP. First time I’ve seen that. I saw recently where some guys got dinged for breaking into Lowe’s via their wireless APs, but those guys got dinged under the usual cracking stuff - nothing about how they connected was included. In this new case, it seems like the connection to the AP was the initial crime that then led to the other charges. So the lessons here are pretty straightforward: lock your sh|t down, you never know what fscking freak will try and surf you. And give some pause to stealing service, it’s obviously not the free-for-all it once was.

Princeton students take on inmates in chess Cann, who is serving a life sentence for murder and kidnapping, did not win his match, but wasn’t discouraged. “I’m sure if I was playing these guys in the yard I’d win some and they’d win some,” he said. Such a calm, reasoned way to say, “If I met this guy in the yard, I’d gut him like a pig with a shank I made out of the legbone of the last guy to beat me at chess.”

Linux veteran tries again |CNET.com It’ll be fun to watch what happens. Pretty interesting about Ransom commenting about some longstanding issues with IBM. Although, the DR-DOS thing was a lot like the SCO thing today - in each case Caldera bought something from the junkpile and then sued. I’ll give Love props - along with having the best name ever, Caldera OpenLinux 1.0 was the first distro I really cut my teeth on when I got serious about the Penguin (they had KDE pre-installed before Mandrake existed and before I knew any better). SCO today can still go fuck themselves.

Watching a great LHO related Frontline. He was born in NOLA and spent a bunch of time their in ‘63. And to honor the 40th 11/22, I’ll be headed over to 4907 Magazine - LHO’s apartment in NOLA in 1963. I’ll take pictures. Seeing the footage of Ruby shooting him reminded me of this little gem: Dr. Cosmo’s Oswald In A Jam Index Page I think it was my desktop wallpaper when I worked at DeLorme (vague memories of a co-worker thinking it was a Dead Kennedys record cover because of the DK sig on the bricks). Anyway, yet again Google rules.

I laughed my ass off. There’s more to Britney than the porn persona - just listen to her wonderfully awful new album Young girls who dress like 40-year-old strippers are scary. They get fake tans, inject silicone into their breasts and then dance around poles with enormous boa constrictors dangling around their necks. They can’t resist taking off their clothes anytime they are within 100 feet of a camera, and when they open their mouths, they say things that are so incredibly dumb, you wonder if they didn’t miss their true calling as models for condom ads. But Britney Spears, 21, is different. She may swap spit with Madonna live on national television, take off her shirt for the cover of Rolling Stone and tell impressionable young kids watching MTV that smoking is cool, but there is more to her than the outward blow-up-doll personality. For one thing, there is her new album, “In the Zone.”

Damn TSG is fast. And damn, what a fscking freak. The Smoking Gun: Archive

Wired 11.12: START Larry Ellison is obsessed with buying PeopleSoft. Can you say quagmire? Sure, his Oracle empire is awesome - $9 billion in annual sales and 40,000 employees. But we can’t shake the feeling that the chief egotistical officer is headed for a great fall. The signs: Scut Farkas Phenomenon Scut was the green-toothed bully in A Christmas Story. His reign of terror ended when Ralphie finally beat the crap out of him. When it was PeopleSoft’s turn to stand up, the management, employees, and even customers mounted a gutsy counterattack. Now Ellison looks weak and desperate - two things a bully should never be. Dinosaur Syndrome High tech has always flip-flopped between large, centralized IT and small, personalized computing. Companies like Oracle that make it big during centralizing eras often die in the phase change. Zeitgeist Sync Failure Ominous glass towers, mercurial product releases, pushy salespeople - Oracle’s business style was out-of-date before the dotcom boom. Let the brain drain begin. Grandpa Effect Ellison is dissing the Valley’s prospects even as a revival takes hold. Red flag. Entrepreneurs who spew only gloom are usually talking about their own faded glory. Rat Pack Redux When America was going psychedelic, Frank, Sammy, and Dino were predicting rock and roll’s demise. Sound familiar? Ellison is out of touch. Does he really believe that fast cars, women, Migs, and yachts make him look cool instead of just creepy?