Thursday, September 15, 2005

Today's Political Mini-Rant

Rumor has it that later today, George W. Bush is going to announce some staggering dollar figure that our government will spend on the clean-up and restoration of New Orleans and thereabouts. I think that will generally be a good thing, though I'd be happier if part of the plan involved an explanation of just where the money is going to come from. My guess is it will not come from withholding or even postponing any tax cuts for the richest Americans. I'll also hazard a suspicion that an amazing percentage of that money will wind up doing less for the victims of Hurricane Katrina than it will for companies headed by people who have close ties to the Bush administration.

They'll do especially fine with reconstruction projects down there since Bush suspended the Minimum Wage Law for such endeavors. Well, I guess it makes sense. It's not like there are workers in Louisiana or Mississippi who need money or health insurance...

• Posted at 2:14 AM · LINK

Gee, Professor G.

I had nothing to do with it but my occasional employer Jim Davis has set up a new educational website for kids. It's called Professor Garfield and while I didn't have time to browse the whole site, what I saw seems quite well done and, yes, even educational. Some nice music, some excellent Flash animation, some clever games and presentations. The budding cartoonist in your family will enjoy the Artbot section where Jim and three other artists give drawing lessons. There's also a trivia game and I'm ashamed to admit that I got beaten. (I'm not up on my SpongeBob lore.) Recommend it to someone young.

• Posted at 12:31 AM · LINK