It appears that Eric Muller has a much better effect on students (at least while a visiting lecturer in France) than I do (here in Miami).
Then again, all is not roses on his current visiting gig.
Note to any French university readers: French is my first language, although it gets rusty, and I will be on leave next Spring.
Zug's Credit Card Prank (previously blogged back when I had far fewer readers) cracks lawyers up; apparently regular people find it funny too. Now he's done round two. It's a little scatalogical, but funny: The Credit Card Prank II
Don't quite know how Amazon got advance ordering on the VIEWSONIC TPCV1250S PM-1G 40GB ( TPCV1250S-1303 ), but the specs are very impressive:
And don't miss the customer reviews.
Update: sigh Amazon has corrected the specs…but at least they haven't (yet) deleted the comments…
Mark A. R. Kleiman: Running out of running room summarizes the last 18 or so hours of super-weirdness. One can only speculate where this is all going.
I gather that after the overwhelming loss before the 11th Circuit en banc, the Supreme Court filing hasn't actually reached the Court yet, but is expected Real Soon Now.
I can only say at this point that I hope Jeb Bush steps up to the plate and gets involved again in this one, since it's such a popular national issue, and popular in Florida too. And popular with Evangelicals. And I imagine this this mainline Christian's comments will have some resonance too.
Via Dan, a link to UA Young Democrat banned from forum:
A UA student was banned from attending President Bush's Social Security forum at the Tucson Convention Center yesterday.
UA Young Democrat Steven Gerner, a political science and pre-pharmacy sophomore, said he and three other Young Democrats had been waiting in line with their tickets for about 40 minutes when a staff member approached him and asked to read his T-shirt.
Gerner was the only one of the four wearing a UAYD T-shirt, which read, “Don't be a smart (image of a donkey, the Democratic Party symbol). UA Young Democrats.”
Gerner said the staffer, who refused to provide his name, asked for Gerner's ticket and crumpled it up.
Taxpayers paid for this event — it's not a campaign rally. And I don't care if the White House says it's over-zealous local people doing this — first of all there's a pattern and practice of this behavior at Bush events. Second, if it is unsanctioned then taking the ticket and ripping it up is a criminal act. Let's see a prosecution, please.
Jotwell Blenderlaw