-CW

Really? the bit about web designers?

I am exhausted now, but will contact you privately over the weekend.

Thanks!

-CW

if you had a time machine and went back and killed your grandfather and disappeared, what would you be guilty of?

ex post facto suicide?

(heh)

-CW

OK, I had to look up "dysphemistically"...

didn't know there was an antonym for "euphemistically"! thanks!

-CW

Um, no that's "ex post facto".

Bills of attainder are similar, though -- it's the targeting of one person specifically through legislation. In Trump's case it would be more like "executive order of attainder"... maybe we need a new term...

-CW

Sorry, failed to cite it. Poll was from Wikipedia, but I've seen similar polls showing DST with an edge. Not an overwhelming edge, but still...

-CW

I think "fuckhead" would be a noun. Adjective? Maybe "fuckheadedly"... no that's an adverb. "Fuckheadish" maybe?

heh

:-)

-CW

Quoting the esteemed ex-senator Al Franken:

"I like Ted Cruz more than any other senator. And I HATE Ted Cruz!"

:-)

-CW

Oh, I fully agree. But hey, I just had to write SOMETHING that wasn't about tariffs this week!

-CW

Your link, which otherwise takes one to this selfsame page, has a quote mark at the end. That's what takes it to the 404 page. Not sure what the Daddy Vladdy link should be.

1- It keeps on signing me out by itself — which sucks because there’s no reason to ever sign out on this device. This has been happening for months.

2- I post a link that looks proper in the preview window above, but when selected it goes to your 404 — Page Not Found instead of Daddy Vladdy (1:08). This problem is new.

Also, my BFF is a website developer par excellence. I think you’d be glad you talked to him. Decades and largely self taught

I am too lazy in general and too drunk on this occasion to look it up: so is fuckhead a noun?

Yes, a noun dysphemistically modeled after "DH."

I know it’s not a verb nor an adverb so could that word be an adjective?

It could be if you added an "ed" to the end of it. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlTEjlHXXkw

I think the law that punishes for acts that were legal at the time is called an "ex post facto" law. The Constitution does forbid this kind of thing.

Then there is the law that specifically names a person or party to be punished, rather than a class of persons who have committed some act. That is a "bill of attainder", and the Constitution forbids that as well.

Both types of law, clearly, had been the tools of injustice in English history and the U.S. Framers wanted none of them.

I'm not clear: how do either of these concepts relate to Chris's essay on the latest proposal to reform the U.S. time standard?

when I did a quick search to see if my reasoning was sound, I found that a judge had already considered this in a recent ruling against the trump administration.

So I vote for eliminating DST. As you say, a permanent DST has already been tried in the modern era, and it didn't fly. So lets go back to a permanent standard time.

Yes, there will be complaints, but there are complaints now. Surely the complaints basically cancel each other out?

And in the end you make it seem like good government and sound policy must always come from a politician's sense of what will keep him or her from losing the next election. Maybe so - but aren't there any examples of Congress doing the RIGHT THING rather than the politically expedient thing, ever?

(PS can you fill us in on that poll you cited, where the split was: 21% like switching clocks 2x year - 62% don't like it and want just one time year-round. Sure, that 62% couldn't agree on which time they wanted, DST or standard, but wait: That's only 83%. What did the other 17% say to the poll. "I need more time"?)

I am too lazy in general and too drunk on this occasion to look it up: so is fuckhead a noun? I know it’s not a verb nor an adverb so could that word be an adjective?

nite yakko — well put!

1- give him the red card that he’s objectively earned, and,

2- go ahead and engage in some email thread with homeboy to your heart’s delight! That way you can maintain your loyalty to your buddy and spare the rest of us. I’m sure you’ll have a blast! Everybody wins!

I would just like to take this opportunity to comment that Ted Cruz is an absolute __________. <---- choose your own noun

Lock the clock. I don't even care how they decide to do it; just make sure it's a ginormously large clock and that Ted Cruz is locked inside it.

So if 62% versus 21% prefer just PICK ONE I’d expect that once they pulled the trigger in perhaps only a year no one would bitch either way.