Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Great widget from the Washington Post, play with electoral results and see who wins.

Historian Clayton Cramer is running for the Idaho senate!

Thursday, March 20, 2008

EATING IN CARS NOT PERMITTED BY TOWN ORDINANCE
Sign on the outside of a KFC in Bloomfield, CT stating that eating in cars is not permitted by a town ordinance

I suppose what they meant to say is that the town ordinance prohibits eating in cars.

If that is true, and Bloomfield actually bothered to pass a town ordinance making it illegal to eat in a parked car, then just how crappy a town is Bloomfield anyway?

Is this some sort of new crime wave, people eating in cars all over town?

Sad and silly at the same time.

The freedom loving part of me would point out that the Town Ordinance "not permitting" me to eat in my car doesn't mean anything at all, since the basic idea of the law is that "that which is not prohibited is allowed." Given that, if there is no town ordinance permitting (or prohibiting) me to eat in my car, then surely I am free to do so.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

My Client #9 shirts ran as the lead illustration on a Reuters syndicated article about Spitzer shirts hitting the web so quickly after the scandal broke.

Article.

For posterity I've saved the following screenshots, which can be enlarged if you click them.


Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Elliot Spitzer Client #9 shirts as featured on Reuters news feed

Based on a suggestion from my father, Elliot Spitzer memorial "Client #9" shirts & mugs. The underwear was my idea.

Elliot Spitzer's Boxer ShortsElliot Spitzer Gubernatorial golf shirtElliot Spitzer's Thong

UPDATE: I was interviewed by Leonard Greene from the NY Post about this on 3/11/08 by phone but none of my comments made it into the article.

JOKESTERS 'T'ING OFF
By LEONARD GREENE

March 12, 2008 -- If prostitution is the oldest profession, T-shirt making can't be far behind.

The apparel industry wasted no time cranking out T-shirts and caps for Internet sale to make a few bucks off the scandal.

"Just call me Client-9," reads one T-shirt, a $19.95 fun-poking reference to how prosecutors referred to the governor in the indictment against a prostitution ring.

"Eliot Mess," reads another, a shirt featuring an image of a righteous Gov. Spitzer behind a podium.

"It's a great way for people to express themselves," said Sara Doepke, a spokeswoman for CaféPress.com, a California-based online marketplace.