Month: October 2005

Good morning.

this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters

cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.

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I’m afraid there doesn’t seem to be any way I can e-mail andy about a technical matter, so this diary will have to do.  (I didn’t want to e-mail Booman right now on something relatively minor.)

Much of eastern Australia has just gone onto summer (or daylight) time (UTC +11).  So I reset my user preferences for Eastern Aust Daylight time.  Trouble is, this results in the display being an hour behind what it should be.  If I switch it back to Eastern Aust Standard it shows two hours behind.

As I recall, the time is calculated by or from the BT server settings.  I know daylight time has just ended on the US West Coast.  Andy, can you check the server clock and the time zone selected for the server in scoop?  I suspect the problem may be one of those.  This would be confirmed if other people are getting strange readings…

Crossposted at dailykos and myleftwing

Regular readers know the high regard in which I hold the op-ed pages of the Boston Globe, for both the quality and diversity of their offerings —  Ellen Goodman, Derrick jackson and Tom Oliphant on the liberal side, Jeff Jacoby clearly conservative, Cathy Young Libertarian, James Carroll impossible to classify.  And in the middle / mainstream Scott Lehigh and Joan Vennochi.  It is Vennochi whom I wish to bring to your attention today.   Her column  is entitled Knocking on Cheney’s Door and is well worth the read.

Let me offer a few snippets.

Governor Perry must be so proud to have the endorsement of the KKK.  He and his party of bigots spent most of the 79th Legislature working on passing or trying to pass bills which discriminate against the GLBT community or limit a woman’s choices when it comes to her own body instead of working on Tax Reform or Education Funding.