Monthly Archives: July 2006

House Passes Bill Banning Online Gambling

Today the House passed a bill ban­ning online gam­bling that would clar­ify and update cur­rent law to spell out that most gam­bling is ille­gal online. Of course, as always with Con­gress­crit­ters, they play fast and loose with the rules. In this case, they specif­i­cally exempt horse bet­ting and state lot­ter­ies. Funny thing is, to me …

July 11, 2006 – 9:24 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Sports | Comments Off

Tracking Obesity In America

This is a neat inter­ac­tive map that shows the pro­gres­sion of obe­sity across time in Amer­ica on a state-by-state basis. Here in Texas, 1 in 4 have a BMI of over 30. Granted, the BMI is not the best indi­ca­tor of obe­sity (I’m pretty healthy but my BMI prob­a­bly puts me at over­weight, just because …

July 11, 2006 – 7:04 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues | Comments (0)

Too Cool

This is a must see video of some amaz­ing kite flying. Damn, the Inter­net kicks ass.

July 10, 2006 – 8:07 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (1)

This Will Get You Killed In Columbia

Yup.

July 6, 2006 – 6:05 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Great News for Afghanistan

In a land torn by war and poverty for decades, lit­tle things like cof­fee shops take on a whole new meaning. Enter the Kan­da­har Star­bucks. No, it’s not that Star­bucks so don’t get your panties in a wad about the tragedy that is the suc­cess of Starbucks.

July 3, 2006 – 9:19 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in International Affairs | Comments (0)

Addiction

What are you addicted to? Me, I’m addicted to books, gar­den­ing (though I’m not sure how I’d take that to an island in Maine) and I kind of like the ear plugs idea. I work in an envi­ron­ment where it’s per­fectly accept­able to just walk into someone’s cube and tap him or her on the …

July 3, 2006 – 9:15 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

What To Do With $2

Hard to argue with this logic

July 3, 2006 – 10:12 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments Off

Dallas City Council Free For All

The city coun­cil of Dal­las con­tin­ues to give money away to devel­op­ers as an incen­tive to develop choice pieces of land in the city. This is the most ridicu­lous strat­egy I’ve ever heard of. They did it for the Park Lane devel­op­ment going in north of my office and they’re doing it now with the …

July 1, 2006 – 9:02 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Dallas Affairs | Comments (2)