When they call it a “rare” fracture, that means that this particular type of rail fracture is rare. Metro, with its increasingly degraded service, has rail fractures all the time lately.
The First 2004 Presidential Debate
Well, I think the debate was somewhat disappointing. Neither Bush nor Kerry strayed from the party line, and none of them offered anything new or particularly interesting. This was all just a rehashing of previously stated opinions.
Improve on Red vs. Blue: Winner-Take-All Systems Leave Out Too Many Voters
I don’t necessarily agree with every little thing William Raspberry says in this article, but he makes a lot of good points and I agree with the underlying premise—our system is screwed up and needs work.
Third Presidential Debate Now Available Free in iTunes
If you missed the third and final presidential debate between President George W. Bush (R) and Senator John Kerry (D-MA), be sure to give it a listen.
The debate is now available as a free download (thanks to C-SPAN and Audible.com) through the iTunes Music Store.
The Third 2004 Presidential Debate
My apologies for taking 24 hours to get this analysis done and posted—the universe has conspired against me.
Part of it too was that the debate did not present much in the way of new things to talk about. Both candidates seemed pretty much in the same style as the 2nd debate, both threw around half-gibberish numbers, they poked at one another and criticized one another and generally stayed away from anything substantive or unexpected.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.