Rick Herrick Central

While we've still got time, let's bomb Germany!

This is a tricky situation, I think.  al-Awlaki poses a pretty obvious "clear and present danger" to American interests, but we can't really walk in and arrest him.  Amidst the outrage at governmental willingness to kill him, I've yet to hear a good solution for this sort of person.

I hadn't read this analysis of the politicking around the tax cut bills before:

Updated: I bought Tidalis.  It's fun!  And it's only $10.

Go buy AI War or Tidalis (I haven't played Tidalis myself) and support indie game development!

Boy, some people are just no fun.  There's been an on-going thread on Andrew Sullivan's site about weddings, diamond rings, and the money spent on ceremony, ornamentation, etc., all in (conscious or unconscious) signalling ploys.  But one writer took this to the extreme in this post (look for the reader who "finds all wedding expenses unnecessary"):

I'm getting super bummed at the layout of this blog.  I need a new Drupal theme.  I want my fonts to be more refined.

Updated: OK, I have a new theme.  Deco.  It's OK for now, I guess.  At least it's not the old theme.

I live under a rock buried beneath a pile of bigger rocks, for I have not heard California Gurls.  I have heard Paparazzi repeatedly but that's because a (non-Lady Gaga) version of it is on Kidz Bop 17 (I'm thinking about doing a blues version of that song).

I've been watching Louie, which is the relatively new Louie C.K. comedy on FX (as in, this is its first season and it's a few episodes in).  I had to wait a bit and kind of digest it before I could distill what I think about it and I'm still equivocating a bit, but here goes...

Via Ezra Klein.

In this sensational leaked video, Katie Couric is "disdainful" and "contemptuous" of Sarah Palin's children, takes "a shot at female basketball players" and makes fun of Wasilla, "one of the fastest growing areas in the country, and the fifth largest city in Alaska."

Go ahead and watch the video and come back.  You'll be completely and totally shocked.