Chagrined from his tax cut spending splurge of last year, Dubya begs Congress to to raise America’s credit limit “for freedom.”
Month: June 2002
End of the Worldcom.
Joining Enron and Martha Stewart in infamy, Worldcom cooks the books for $3.8 billion. It’s not like either the telecom industry or the economy at large need another hit right now, and this one’s going to be a doozy. Good news for the Dems, at least, but I wonder what this’ll mean for UUNet. Update: Bush vows a probe into the situation. Hey, let’s not forget about Enron there, bud.
Schroedinger’s Universe.
Discover interviews physicist John Wheeler about the quantum nature of reality. “Wheeler conjectures we are part of a universe that is a work in progress; we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself – and building itself. It’s not only the future that is still undetermined but the past as well. And by peering back into time, even all the way back to the Big Bang, our present observations select one out of many possible quantum histories for the universe.” (Via Anil Dash.)
Because I hate to miss a meme…
even if this particular blog meme is now being called into question by its creator, here’s my stab at everyone’s current favorite Google party game:
Kevin is:
* ready for the storm – in his survival suit.
* a great addition to an already star-studded cast.
* one strong guy!
* currently the manager of North American office for Accordions worldwide.
* free, although still facing a huge amount of restrictions.
* a true individual bringing the vocals and melodic harmonies of Crowded House and surrounding them with the style and musical panache of Ry Cooder at his very best.
* considered a spokesperson for the college demographic.
* your other closest friend living in Los Angeles.
* deeply troubled by Maine’s slow population growth and even decline in
some counties.
* the metal power man.
* the youngest member of his village council
and an active voice for manatee conservation in his village.
* a product of the drug-free movement.
* prone to crushes [and] boringly good-looking.
Well, you get the idea.
Who’s there?
Corona gets a peek at the set design of Stephen Soderbergh’s Solaris.
Hitting the Wall.
Germany defeats South Korea 1-0, and will face either Brazil or Turkey (Brazil) in the Final. Ah well, it was a great run for the Koreans.
Loan Relief.
The economy may be going sour and there’s fewer jobs to be had, but there is some good news on the horizon for Generation Y. College loan interest rates will hit record lows at the end of the month.
A Dad’s Best Friend.
Turns out Dubya talks more about his dogs these days than he does his daughters. Hmmm…maybe it’s because his dogs don’t get blitzed every weekend, and because they don’t seem to mind when he, ahem, “chokes on a pretzel” during an afternoon football game. As a prof of mine noted, any dog owner’ll tell you that if your dogs don’t freak out when you suddenly hit the ground, they’re just used to seeing you pass out in strange places.
Corrupted by Tinseltown.
The LA Times (have fun getting past the intrusive new sign-up rules) attempt to discern why great foreign directors make bad American films.
Selective Service.
With trade winds blowing around the NBA, ESPN offers its final mock draft before the real deal tomorrow night. Looks like the Knicks may indeed pull off a legit big man in Maryland’s Chris Wilcox or (possibly) Brazilian phenom Nene, although I’d think “baby Iverson” Dajuan Wagner is still on their list too. Either way, I’m expecting NY to unload at least half their litany of undersized PF’s (Thomas, ‘Spoon, Harrington) and backup PG’s (Jackson, Ward, Eisley) sometime this summer.