Neanderpundit

should exist. And it’s power shoiuld be forever limited to REPORTING. No levying fines, no shutting anyone down, no prosecution, just pointing a finger and saying “Look at that smokestack!!! here’s a printout showing how much crap it’s pumping into the atmosphere” And that should be it.

Individual municpalities can decide if they want that facility to remain, or to tax it out of existence and force it to move.

Discuss.

The Goto guy for Planimiters is a retired mathematician, and spends his spare time doing things like making simulators for aging computers. . I remember working on old CNC machines that had a similar layout and similar controls, and I was alwasy amused at the way they functioned. You too, now, can pretend that you’re a Brit computer programmer in 1950. The simulator is a free download, and if you’re a real geek, you’ll download and run it.

makes one think of either hydrocephalic slack jawed yokels or woody harrelson thwacking zombies, but this has always been one of my favorite arrangements of an otherwise annoying song that has gotten a lot of airplay because of this commercial.

I give you Iron Horse’s “Bluegrass train”

Update: My Dear old friend and Confidant Mlle Jenny links me to this:

Only in austin could you link redneck covers of drug anthems with partisan politics. Great banjo, though.