Tony Yarusso's Blog

In politics, as in much of life, it is common to have to decide between what is right and what is easy. Usually the just and morally preferable option is also the difficult and expensive one, and the unjust and damaging option is cheap and easy. This of course leads to heavy wrangling, fretting, compromise, and confusion when attempting to pass legislation, as lawmakers have to deal with conflicting factors in trying to do what is right for people and trying to remain sensible with budgeting, particularly during hard economic times when people are especially vulnerable to harm from unjust policies while at the same time less able to fund better ones.

Thankfully, there are occasionally exceptions to that pattern. Once in a while, an issue will crop up where the righteous course of action is also serendipitously the easy and affordable one. In these cases, the usual worrying and bickering shouldn't be necessary, as all needs are already met. Such a situation exists today, and thankfully a handful of legislators recognize it.

I discovered today that the GTK blogging client Drivel is apparently seeing active development again. Nifty!

See http://drivel.sourceforge.net/

The other day while discussing the latest racist proposals out of the Republican party, I pointed out that repeal of the 14th Amendment would create an increase in stateless persons. My dad did not believe this, so here is a list of situations that, to the best of my knowledge after a night's Googling, would result in a stateless person within the United States if the parents were immigrants to the US from the named countries (legally or not) and the child was born here:

REIWell-balanced and beautiful, this paddle features a 14-degree bent shaft for maximum paddling efficiency.

Okay, for everyone out there who has been frustratingly reporting that KompoZer is broken in various ways in Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex", I just wanted to say, I know. That said, I do not know why or how to fix it. So, here's a little background and explanation of where things stand.