Correction:
John
Seiffer:
“I’m sure I’m not the first to point this
out, but a pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of gold.”
☞
Do you know how there’s always one person in a group who’s really
annoying? I am ordinarily that person. Today – and I say this
with the kind of broad grin that almost requires an emoticon – it’s
John Seiffer.
Addition:
I’ve told you how
Fujitsu’s scanner changed my life (and you’ve told me how
it’s changed yours). Well, it only gets better. I finally got
around to trying it with business cards. And it’s a freakin’
miracle. Instead of entering the info by hand, which I never get around
to doing, you just put a stack of cards in the feeder and press a button.
Yes, you occasionally have to unclog a jam (a completely trivial task); and,
yes, you always have to read each card to correct the inevitable errors (not at
all trivial, but kinda fun). But once you’ve done that, one more
click and they all wind up in Outlook.
Meanwhile, this
new model, the S1300, just hitting the streets, is cheaper,
smaller, and compatible with both PC and Mac (in case you’re a
dual platform household). I love my S1500, which can handle a thicker
stack of documents. But the S1300 may be the better choice for
many.
THE
BIG PICTURE
Yesterday’s
T.E.D. crib notes spared you from cancer. (Eat berries!) Today,
thanks to reader Richard Anhalt (who writes, “when Bill Gates talks
about using nuclear energy, people listen”), there’s this
completely fascinating – and ultimately encouraging – T.E.D.
digest. It will take you no more than a minute or two to read.
UNDERWEAR
I actually snuck in something about money yesterday
– specifically, about the INHI warrants some of us own. And a
money-saving tip – if you can call $8.95 for a pound of shrimp
“money-saving.” But more often than not of late, I’ve
been lobbing Rachel Maddow clips.
Why?
Because
the Republican strategy of “blocking everything in order to win back
power” threatens our prosperity.
Which
brings us to Rachel’s clip from Tuesday where she shows Republican
after Republican attacking the Obama team for Mirandizing the “underwear
bomber” – even though this is exactly what the Bush Administration
did every time it arrested terrorists on American soil.
And
she makes the larger point: yet again, the Republican leadership opposes
anything Obama does – even if they were for it until he came their
way. (Like the bipartisan deficit reduction panel Republicans
co-sponsored but then voted against once the President signed on.)
You’ve
got to watch Cheney, Giuliani, and the rest pounding away – all in almost
identical language – even though every suspected terrorist arrested on
American soil under the Bush Administration was treated the same way.
Including
“the shoe bomber.”
Having
“also failed when he also tried to detonate PETN when he
was also aboard a U.S.-bound airliner after also being trained
and directed by Al-Qaeda,” Maddow notes, “Richard Reed was also
arrested in the U.S. as a civilian criminal and he was also – yes!
– read his Miranda rights. Four times.”
See
the difference?
Same
with “the twentieth hijacker” and scores
of others.
So
why are the Republicans orchestrating their scathing criticism when the only
thing that’s changed is the occupant of the White House?
If
you have any doubt who’s trying to govern responsibly and who’s
trying to see that effort fail, watch the clip.