2006

How exactly do I buy phone record?

Given it’s still legal an enterprising blogger should be purchasing Bob Ney, Tom DeLay, and the guy who bribed Cunningham’s records just for fun. 

Kudos to the Sun-Times for being on top of this story.  Here’s the AmericaBlog post

If anyone is thinking of buying mine, they’re boring enough I’ll sell them to you for half-price. A bargain to find out that during big Chicago sports events I’m calling my friends drunk and otherwise calling my wife to figure out what the hell she means by “that thingy” on the shopping list. 

Welcome to My Pain in the Butt

To buy pseudophedrine in Illinois you will now need to sign a log book and present ID before purchasing it.  It’s especially annoying given you often have to wait in line at the Pharmacy counter to buy a rather benign drug.

Those who say it’s a major deterrent are kidding themselves. It might shift the production further away, but such shifts are often accompanied by lower prices as economies of scale develop.

And for more fun, the smaller doses when the pharmacies are closed–are, of course, more expensive than the larger packs.  The reality is that limiting the number of packages bought in a given transaction would likely be just as effective.

Let’s Think About If This Had Happened in DC

Company vying for federal benefit help to provide data on impact of change in the law….

Me and other Democrats go apeshit.So I’m going apeshit here. 

Who the hell doesn’t think about these things.  Even in the case where someone is acting naively–and G-Rod isn’t–there is no excuse for this sort of relationship with lobbyists in putting together proposals.  You don’t go to the company, you go to Michigan or another state that has a program. 

Never mind that Blagojevich promised not to expand gambling four years ago. 

If video poker is the crack cocaine of gambling, keno is the gateway drug. 

Tussle with ArcMap and an Anonymous Reviewer

Some anonymous reviewers tend to think far more highly of their statistical prowess than they should–making it difficult to respond without having to give them a beginning graduate level of stats in a paper. ArcMap was a different matter dealing with understanding the relatively new interface that I hadn’t used until now.

We should be back to normal. Thanks for Bill for reminding me there were other things to do besides fret about a revisions.