Water on Mars - Free shrimp for everyone!

( Long John Silver's makes good on Mars ocean bet. )

More on Richard Clarke

I Never Expected That I Could Say That Many Expletives While Watching CSPAN By Mr. Terence Chua, Going Through Dick Clarke's Testimony With Rapt Attention.

While I was being pissed off at the White House attacks on Richard Clarke amounting to nothing more than, "He's a bad, bad man and it's his fault rather than ours," rather than addressing the truth or falsity of his claims, I complete missed being pissed off over the fact that Fox News, in a blatantly partisan move, took an off-the-record background interview and gave that to the White House to discredit Richard Clarke. As Scott McClellan said in the briefing yesterday:
( Transcript of White House press briefing follows. )

One more step on the road of good intentions...

( Senate passes Unborn Victims of Violence Act. )

Have fun, guys!

Hugs, love and kisses to everybody who's going to FilkONTario this weekend. Wish I could be there.

Have fun, sing songs, do stuff. And if anyone sings my crap, let me know.

More Clarke snippets

Oh, man, you guys have to read this. Your brain will explode just trying to imagine trying to get anything through this amount of bureaucratic molasses.

( My brain hurts. )

Advice to parents

Dear Dad,

You are a man with a history of heart disease. You have had two heart attacks, and bypass surgery. You see a cardiologist regularly, and have to watch your diet.

So, please understand that when you send us e-mail about how to prevent heart attacks, sending the e-mail with the subject header, "Heart Attack," may actually cause cardiac arrest in us kids when we see it in our in boxes.

We appreciate the information, but not the panic.

Thank you.

Love,

Terence

Idle musings

I wonder, since I have an LL.B. (Hons) from the University of London and eight years of work experience as a prosecutor and a judge, albeit in Singapore... can that count for credit at all towards a J.D.?