etee's Blog

Sometimes, you just need to put things in persective:

Then, they don't seem so bad... right?

Please please please please PLEASE, don't let the ravenous carnivores in the fringes of the political partisan-o-sphere take to heart the lesson of The Weak Spot In Every Political Figure:

The lesson that the ruthless corners of the political world will take from the rise, fall, and departure of Sarah Palin that if you attack a politician's children nastily enough and relentlessly enough, you can get anybody to quit.

'cuz the resulting bloodbath will make the Nile look like the result of a paper cut.

(via Polimom Says)

What to do for breakfast on a holiday morning (or any morning, for that matter)? Here's a thought:

(I had to do something with the new Flip video camera!)

Finally, a judge acts with common sense! Convictions 'tentatively' tossed in MySpace cyber-bullying case:

...judge says that if she is to be found guilty of illegally accessing computers, anyone who has ever violated the social networking site's terms of service would be guilty of a misdemeanor.

While what happened to the teenage girl was horrific and tragic, and while the woman may well have played a pivotal role in the events leading up to this tragedy, the fact is that there were no laws on the books under which she could be prosecuted. If the convictions had been upheld, we would have had a very bad precedent set, where (as the judge noted) a civil contract (the Terms of Service for MySpace, in this instance) would be elevated to the level of, and therefore be enforceable as, Federal criminal law. And not by an Act of Congress, or an Executive Order, or even by decree of an activist Federal Judge: rather, via a decision rendered by twelve people chosen at random, in a criminal case which should never have been brought. Personally, I would much prefer my ISP or social networking site's lawyers not be the ones writing criminal law.

And, should the teenage girl's parents still wish to seek justice, there are other venues (such as the civil court system) which are far better suited for that purpose in this case.

Houston area weather forecast: High 99° F, with a 30% chance of rain. Some are reporting it will get up to 101° F.

In other words, more of the same from this past weekend. Thinking you might want a break from the heat, all I can offer is 7 seconds of cool, refreshing water:

Enjoy.