07 Nov 2008
No U.S. Prostitution Charges Against Spitzer

Dare I ask if he would've been prosecuted if he'd have been an average Joe (or John)? Are charges for this "crime" going to be pressed on the prostitute herself?

Or is crime and punishment in this country meted out not on the basis of fact or even justice, but on the basis of who you are and who you know?

I think I already know the answer to that. While I am in no way eager to see victimless "crimes" prosecuted, my sense of justice is outraged by the uneven application of rules and laws, which seem to only exist to keep the little people in their proper places.

Spitzer is one of those who made the law - he, of all people, should be forced to face their complete consequences.

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer will not face charges for patronizing a prostitution ring, federal prosecutors said.

(link) [New York Times]

18:50 /Politics | 2 comments | permanent link

Bloggers getting bigger and messier

Being on ISDN out in the country I surely notice the longer and longer load times for popular blogs. But I would contend that this is a trend for the web in general - folks seem to have forgotten that real data takes real time to transfer, broadband or not.

What really annoys me, though, is the increasing size of RSS feeds. Wired has started placing the full text, with images, of every story in their RSS feeds. Slashdot adds all manner of tags and invisible images - tracking cookies - into theirs. And nearly everybody now throws tag links and advertising on the tail of their feeds. All this takes time just to "read the headline". Ridiculous.

Blog front pages are now large pages of images and scripts rather than the pared-down text pages of old.

(link) [The Register]

07:57 /Technology | 0 comments | permanent link

Latest Toy Hall of Fame entry? A stick

The lowly stick, a universal plaything powered by a child's imagination, landed in the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday along with the Baby Doll and the skateboard.

(link) [CNN.com]

07:44 /Humor | 0 comments | permanent link