Dern You Colbert!

If I was famous I guess I could guilt Apple into providing me with one too... Maybe Colbert can guilt Apple into giving me one?

Food for Thought

The Agitator has a great post regarding the recent executive order allowing the seizure of property of those who seek to undermine our efforts in Iraq.

Here's a question that ought to be posed to every conservative defender of White House power grabs and the unitary executive:

"Is this a power you'd also be comfortable granting to a President Hillary Clinton? John Edwards? Dennis Kucinich?

If the answer is any sort of qualified "no," you may safely assume you're talking to a party hack.

Thanks in large part to public reaction these very power grabs, it's also a question that's becoming less and less theoretical.

On the other hand, it will be fun to watch the lefties and righties switch places on these issues and throw their own arguments back at one another. I figure we'll start seeing it when Hillary tries to assert executive privilege the first time her administration gets hit with a scandal. I'm guessing around 2010 or so.

Hope Google's cache servers are backed up.

This especially rings true given the rhetoric surrounding the recent Democratic attempt at a filibuster. I think this should be the golden rule of politics, do not grant power that you are uncomfortable handing to the other party...

Maybe I can have one of these instead

I am still attempting to get over my brief encounter with a friend's iPhone. So what if the network is slow - I still want one. But since my chances of affording an iPhone in the upcoming months is unlikely I would love to test one of the alternatives.

The most intriguing alternative out there appears to be the Deeda Pi. In fact, I think it would be a swell idea if Deeda sent me one so that I could review it for them.

See for yourself...

Some Good Assignments

After about 6 weeks of performing nothing (virtually) but evidentiary research for the attorneys, I am finally getting more substantive work. It saddens me somewhat as my laid-back days at work have slowly come to an end as they have been replaced by actual legal tasks that require thought.

Currently I am assisting an attorney with a final refusal on a trademark application and also assisting another with a brief that is going to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Good times, good times...

I played with an iPhone today

It was wonderful and I wish I had one...