You may have noticed the out-of-place Kevin Spacey/Usual Suspects picture at the bottom of last night's post. There's supposed to be a paragraph about the movie and some quotes, but I made a minor typo in coding the image (I used align="right' instead of align="right"). Now the text is hidden, the image is out of place, and the permalink and datestamp are hosed.

No problem, thought I. I'll just go fix it in the editing interface. Problem is, the nice Edit link that should be at the bottom of the post goes to the Internet Movie Database link for Usual Suspects. No problem, thought I. It's for reasons like these that I'm paying for Blogger Pro, so I'll go get me some tech support. Problem is, the tech support link gives Apache Tomcat errors when it does anything at all.

I'm moving to Movable Type. Remember: friends don't let friends use Blogger.

UPDATE: the tech support page was fixed around 11:00 PM, I reported the problem, and BloggerControl fixed it around noon the next day. Blogger has bad code, but they've got good people.

I forgot to mention that Melissa hit an exacta on the derby last weekend. My bride-to-be is now $44 richer.

Excellent 1999 Atlantic article on school vouchers. Katie Allison Granju looks at the recent Supreme Court decision supporting public school vouchers in Cleveland.

A Texas man won the lottery, but the Feds are taking the $5.5 million because they say the winner bought the ticket using money from selling cocaine. Like I always say, finances are like a bucket. You throw money into the bucket, you dip money out of the bucket. This kind of granular traceability is an illusion. Hat tip to SayUncle.

Bill Hobbs is on the job, bulldog-like, tracking states taxes on Internet access. The money he saves could be your own.

Terri Killefer writes: A link to story on gaps in U.S. animal import regulation, leading to monkeypox virus outbreak in pets and humans, and threat of jump to wild U.S. prairie dogs and other animals.

I caught a few minutes of the Fox TV show Test the Nation. Among the celebrities was Heidi Fleiss, whom the host introduced as "Newsmaker and author Heidi Fleiss." Newsmaker. Now that's a euphemism!

SouthKnoxBubba is giving sue-happy right-wing pundit Michael Savage his comeuppance:

So, what do the Dixie Chicks do when angry right-wing morons get them kicked off the radio, burn their CDs, and organize boycotts against them?

Why, they sing louder and prouder, they get their nekkid pictures on the cover of a magazine, they wear controversial t-shirts, and enjoy a boost in sales and popularity.

So, what does a racist, homophobic, misogynistic right-wing radio talk show lunatic do when angry listeners organize a boycott that results in the loss of a couple of ad accounts?

Why, he sues the hell out of everybody in sight! That's the deep-pocket Republican thing to do, you know, stomp the little guy and take his wallet. Freedom from speech! Freedom from association! Freedom from truth!

Damn, but The Usual Suspects is a great movie. I watched it again for about the tenth time this week. I grabbed some of the best lines for the quotes file. I also noticed something that Gabriel Byrne does in the Dean Keaton character. A physical move he makes over and over. The next time I watch the movie I'll write it up.

New to the Quotes File

To a cop, the explanation is never that complicated. There's no mystery to the streets, no arch criminal behind it all. If you've got a dead body and you think his brother did it you're going to find out you're right.
- The Usual Suspects

How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?
- The Usual Suspects

Londing calling / To the Zombies of Death
Quit holdin' out / And draw another breath
- The Clash

Learn to love your inner redneck.
- Jay Gregory

Stick with me, kid, and you'll be wearing diamonds as big as horseturds.
- Gregory family saying

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