joyfulchristian

Here's your sign

So a guy walks in to a CPA office at 8:30 PM on April the 14th to talk about his taxes.  He says, "So is this the time of year you stay after hours a lot?"

Yes. This just happened.

Argh.

Today's tunes

So today I've had "Help Me Ronda" and "O Christmas Tree" stuck in my head.

For several days last week it was Kenny Roger's "Coward of the County."

I think I'm getting weirder all the time.

I'm confused

Glenn Reynolds and Joe Gandelman are blasting Senator John Cornyn.  Gandelman says:

Sen. Cornyn has now seemingly given a perfect mental fig leaf for every nut on the right OR ON THE LEFT who wants to physically take out a judge (or the judge's family) with whom he or she disagrees. All Cornyn needed to add in his execrable remarks was the "Twinkie defense."

He and Glenn both seem to think that Cornyn is advocating or threatening violence against judges.  If he was doing so, that would, of course, be hideous.  But here is, as far as I can figure out, the offending comment:

And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in, engage in violence. Certainly without any justification, but a concern that I have.

Maybe I'm just being naive, but I don't see anything here that threatens or advocates violence against judges.  In fact, Cornyn specifically says that there would be no justification for any such attacks.  All Cornyn is doing here, the best I can tell, is expressing a fear that judicial activism might anger some people to the point of violence. 

I don't understand where he's coming from, but I don't understand what's supposed to be so wrong about this.  Since when did warning that something might happen and threatening to make it happen become the same thing?  Yes, it's true, threats are sometimes clumsily disguised as dispassionate warnings, but I don't see any evidence of that in this case.

What am I missing?

Well, I'm going to be miserable for a while

My fiancee, Nicki, and her daughter got to spend spring break with me last week. It was wonderful even though I did have to work quite a bit.  However they're headed home today.  I'm already missing them and they probably haven't quite left town yet.

Well, two more frantic weeks of taxes and I'll be able to see them again.

Sweet

G-mail started out with 1 GB of online storage space.  At the rate I was going, it would have taken oh ... 15 years or so to use up that much space.  Now they've started adding memory.  If I'm understanding correctly, they're doing that on an ongoing basis.  I've got 1.565 GB right now. And growing.

Woo-hoo!