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Y’know how you can go into an In-N-Out and order off the “secret” menu? Like getting a 4×4 (four patties, four slices of cheese) instead of the standard issue Double-Double (two of each).
Well, some folks went to Las Vegas and engaged in a perfectly logical Vegas-type activity: They ordered a 100×100.
That’s right. One hundred hamburger patties. One hundred slices of cheese.
And one bun.
Seriously.
And they documented the whole experience.
For a day that started out rather harried before segueing into terribly shitty, today sure ended on one hell of a great note.
Just for the record. 
I’ve added poll functionality to my blog. Would y’all mind testing out the nonsensical “What number am I thinking of?” poll I’ve got up there now?
Danke danke.
EDITED TO ADD: Okay. Not working. Crap. I’m seeing what answer I can get outta the plugin author.
EDITED TO ADD: The plugin’s author is (very kindly) helping me troubleshoot the problem. More news when I have it.
EDITED TO ADD: It seems to be working. May I get confirmation from anyone who hasn’t yet voted? Never mind. Still not working.
EDITED TO ADD: I think it’s working now. For real. Prove me right or wrong, please. [crosses fingers]
My work blog, Transmissions from the Ether, has been reborn as a podcast ‘tween Doug, Valli, and me.
One episode down, many to go.
And yes, everybody who’s asked (including you, Evo), I plan to do some personal ones here, and yes, I’ve really, really slacked in not having done any in the last 13 months. What can I say? I had a bit of a mental hump to get over, and I finally found some nice inspiration that helped. 
It’s ’bout time I did one of these again.
I went to my first hockey game (ever!) and saw our San Jose Sharks defeat the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning 3-1.
My dad has posted a Flickr set of photos of Sierra.
[Previously: What do good boys get?]
Y’know, Clinton’s impeachment hearings weren’t ever really about his Monica-given BJ’s: It was about him lying about it and covering it up.
So I don’t understand why the American zeitgeist is so astonishingly indifferent to the wholesale sidestepping of our civil and legal rights that the current administration has been engaged in — from Jose Padilla to the warrantless wiretaps on Americans abroad… and those are just the injustices we know about.
After all, we’re dealing here with people whom the State says it suspects, but has not yet proven, are “drug dealers.” With those people (and, of course, with “suspected terrorists”), anything goes, even before a trial and without any due process of any kind. All of this can be done strictly on the Government’s say-so, even if the Constitutional “niceties” which exist to prohibit such behavior haven’t been complied with. “It may be wrong,” spits out Jonah, but we should do it anyway, because these people deserve it.
Isn’t it exactly this depraved thinking which lies at the heart of almost every current controversy we have? The whole point of the Bill of Rights — really, its principal function — is to prevent the Government from punishing those whom the Government claims (but has not yet proven in a court of law) are bad people deserving of punishment. That’s why there is a sequence mandated by the Constitution before rights can be abridged and punishment inflicted — first, charge someone with a crime, then give them the right to defend themselves along with other protections of due process, and then convict them. Only then are they considered criminals whose rights can be abridged.
Glenn Greenwald has a nice essay called “A Nation of Jonah Goldbergs” that is, IMHO, on the mark.
(Counterpoint: My friend Doug has a different point of view.)
