'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
What's Google doing? Alternatively, can anyone tell me how to get to www.google.com without my ISP tacking .gr onto the end of it?
And sadly, I'm sure Congress will be too busy being all up in other people's parenting (regarding the "porn" in Grand Theft Auto) to get in the way of a bad Justice appointment.
www.google.comCan you google it? Seriously. Maybe go through a google (gr) cache of google (sans gr).
eta,
What if I link you?
Google: [link]
Raq, there should be a "Go to Google.com" link right under the search box, which will take you to the American version of the site.
[edit: And it looks like once you've clicked that link, Google will remember you, and set .com as your default Google. Which is nice, as the UK-centric results it gives me are not always useful.]
I know a couple who have named their two daughters after their initials. Avery Kate and Rowan Grace - note the fashionable gender ambiguous first names and one-syllable classic middle names. I find it funny because I don't think of these people as very yuppie/trendy, except for what they named their kids.
I also know a Chris and Christina couple, which I imagine is fairly common, name popularity being what it is.
I am sad to report that I can't get too worked up about the fucked-up state of the world anymore. The world, and our country, had always been pretty fucked up. I don't know whether this is cynicism based on studying history, a defense mechanism against depression, or both. Probably both.
My sister and nephew just called me at work to see if they should go see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Herbie the Love Bug.
What was your advice?
'Kay, I'll try that, Jessica. Cindy, the link takes me to Greek Google. Groogle. Heh.
Found the Post's brief bio on John Roberts, and was reading too fast, because this:
Previously, he practiced law at Washington's Hogan & Hartson
entered my brain as:
Previously, he practiced law at Wolfram & Hart
What's Google doing? Alternatively, can anyone tell me how to get to www.google.com without my ISP tacking .gr onto the end of it?
I experienced this when I was in Israel only with .il at the end. Somehow google senses what country you're logging in from. I think you can change it under preferences (to the right of the search bar).
ETA: Or better yet, do what Jessica said.
Well, Dr. James Dobson is thrilled with the choice, so that makes me skeptical. I was kinda thinking Bush might go with Gonzales, who wouldn't be all that bad.
It's the will of the people, right?
Well the will of, what, 52% of the people. I think the big, lumpy middle, by being evenly divided, has pretty much demonstrated its ambivalence, and thus any swings too hard in either direction will result in reactive other-direction-ness. The electorate fishtails like a bus on a switchback.
I've read a bit (particularly at Kos) about Roberts, today. Last night on TV (I think msnbc, but I'm not sure, as I was flipping during the Red Sox game), the talking heads said Roberts has stated Roe is the settled law of the land and there's nothing in his personal beliefs that would keep him from upholding it (I think he indicated this when he was up for a judgeship thing in DC, maybe?). They then acknowledged though, that there was nothing to indicate he would be averse to chipping away at it, either.
Does this sound true, or make him out to be more moderate than he likely is?