please remove your britches

as if it wasn't bad enough to have to take off your shoes to go through the gate security check now thanks to this guy we'll probably have to take our pants off too.

Happy Winter Solstice

Unrelated to the holidays, here is one or two interesting reads about the health care reform.

Somewhat related to the holidays, below are some cheery songs to help elevate you to the holiday mood.

Unrelated to anything at all: fun with google patents

Something to be thankful for

I'm glad I don't look at porn or use p2p applications, and always use the 'safe search' setting on google search because I would hate to end up in the same situation as the guy in CA who might do from 3.5-20 years in prison for some images buried "deep within the hard drive".

In other news, Republicans are mad at Al Franken since people have 'attacked' the ones who voted no on his legislation to mandate court access to federal contractor employees who are sexual assault victims. My favorite quote from the article:

“I don’t know what his motivation was for taking us on, but I would hope that we won’t see a lot of Daily Kos-inspired amendments in the future coming from him,” said South Dakota Sen. John Thune, No. 4 in the Senate Republican leadership. “I think hopefully he’ll settle down and do kind of the serious work of legislating that’s important to Minnesota.”