That's the trap here. It gets you using language in a way that prejudices the answer.

The bill doesn't eliminate the secret ballot. It makes it so the workers get to decide if they want a secret ballot or not and gives them an equal chance to communicate to the other employees without management intimidation.

It changes the decision on whether to have a secret ballot by giving the choice to the people who will vote in the election and not to management.

More info here - http://www.slate.com/id/2213352/

He's a tool. A complete and utter tool. And the legal analyst on CBS pretty much said as much.

In the Hulk TV show (the Bill Bixby one), they named the main character David Banner because the original "Bruce" seemed girly. Bruce Jenner won the decathalon, Bruce Springsteen hit the charts and suddenly it was fashionable again.

We named our little girl Eleanor after my mother and thought we'd given her a name that wouldn't be too common. Fat chance - we run into Ellas and Eleanors everyhere in the under three bracket now.

Names cycle. Even Milton and Homer will come back.

It is true that Obama has shown surprising ineptitude in his first months in office

Tell yourself that every night David, as Obama fixes yet another Bush-aggravated or created problem after problem. He's been remarkably effective and we're only 70 days in.

But these apps are perfectly fine. I think there should be stricter limits to gun ownership (and I believe the "militia" clause means something unlike the gun-nuts), but there's no reason to limit the availability of these games.

I mean, who wouldn't want an unstable, petulant, borderline-racist child running their country?

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/6/717062/-Fox-fuels-paranoid-fears-about-gun-ban

Certainly, the shooter is ultimately responsible for the fate of his victims, but there is also responsibility that can be laid at the feet of the people who stir up hatred and fear for political gain in a way that might send the unstable over the edge.

Maybe this guy was already on the edge of the cliff, but the paranoid environment encouraged by the right helped give him a little push.

The one right down there.

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I think I'd prefer his tired paranoid screeds to Paglia's. At least his delusional state isn't wrapped in pseudo-intellectual tripe.

It's OK If You're A Republican. No need for consistency.

You can't get any attention just by being a nut anymore. You have to resort to stunts like you just showed to get any attention. When Bill O'Reilly is the most sedate thing on the network, how else to get noticed?

Beck's closest analog isn't Howard Beale but P.T. Barnum.

That more about the kid in a suitcase. I'm so sick of disappeared kids stories. This story at least has important political and international implications. and isn't just grief porn.

And will they be home for dinner? Their mom's asking.

Are IE plug-ins apps or not? What about background processes? The limit could be essentially meaningless.

You want a comics scene? How about Heather McAdams and Chris Ware with Lynda Barry just up the road in Wisconsin? And what we lack in seafood, we make up for in just about every other type of food there is.

Check it out.

Thanks guys. I think you've made it clear just how much of your rhetoric is bullcrap.

But at their most basic, they keep the roads free from bandits and the high seas clear of pirates. Asking why we're devoting so much to clearing these pirates out is like asking why a baseball player spends so much time learning how to hit.

It's against the rules. Therefore, it's cheating. Putting a little spit on the fastball is also a simple extention of our technological lives, but it's AGAINST THE RULES, so it's cheating.

Don't like it? CHANGE THE RULES or play somewhere else where it's not against the rules.

And the world will beat a path to Blu-ray's door. Sony ought to be selling the players at a loss so they can push the media.

And that should be all you need to know about Rudy.

I think a large screen kindle would make a lot of sense for a lot of markets. The future of media is NOT going to be monolithic "everyone goes to the web" or "everyone goes to e-paper". It's much more likely to be heterogeneous or even delivery device agnostic.

If the Kindle big-screen offers me more screen real estate to make reading different types of content convenient, those content providers who price their wares appropriately will thrive on it.

Maybe that's not the NYT. Maybe it'll be a "cyber-daily" or maybe people will just use it to read books more comfortably, but dismissing this device out of hand is just dumb.

If someone like, oh, say, Ronald Reagan were ever seen to have a teleprompter.

Oh wait - http://s332.photobucket.com/albums/m335/dmhlt48/Teleprompter%20-%20Reagan/?action=view&current=2102fb6a.pbw

Trust me, if your IT department keeps the PC's on all night its for more than just a patch "every once in a while". It's astounding the number and size of the patches a modern Windows PC needs.

Wake on LAN needs to be improved. Once that's working perfectly on all in-service PC's then you can use LANDesk or a similar patch management tool to wake up the PC's, patch them, and then shut them down.

We'll get there, but Obama needs to get health care through Congress first. Once that fight is over, then he can turn left. If he ended DADT now, it would weaken him before what is arguably the most important battle of his administration.

Yeah, plenty of evidence. I've been watching him in the IL State Senate and in the U.S. Senate. He's disappointed me on privacy and surveillance, but otherwise he's been a reliably liberal vote.

He's smart - smarter than you or me, and definitely smarter than his political opponents.