Rick Herrick Central - Hi there.

Of course, it's a truism to say that everyone sees things through the prism of their own concerns.  How can we not? But certainly one of the tasks of a journalist—probably the primary task—is to examine, understand, and present the perspective of others. So since Wolf Blitzer is at least nominally a journalist, his interview this weekend with the Dalai Lama must go into the concerns of the Dalai Lama, ask him for his perspective on recent events in Tibet, ask how the United States should help in discussions with the PRC to advance the cause of human rights in Tibet.

I'm currently evaluating .NET rules engines.  A lot of these are "documented" strictly through their unit tests, most of which are implemented with NUnit.  So I downloaded the most recent version, 2.5.2.9222 as of this writing, and installed that.  But I had forgotten that NUnit does not, by itself, integrate into Visual Studio.  Heavy sigh.  So I downloaded a copy of TestDriven.NET and installed that.

Or is Vince Young really sitting on the sideline of the game tonight with his iPod earplugs in?

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If you ever get an error that reads something like this:

Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted by a Web Farm or cluster, ensure that <machinekey> configuration specifies the same validationKey and validation algorithm. AutoGenerate cannot be used in a cluster.

There are many possible causes and solutions.  But here's what was the cause of my occurence of this error.  As I didn't see this covered elsewhere, I'll go ahead and cover it here. 

Lots of fighter jets over St. Louis tonight.  All-Star Game tomorrow, with Obama in town.

Sitting in for Andrew Sullivan, Conor Friedersdorf makes the point that there wasn't a full copy of Waxman-Markey available on the floor as the House of Representatives voted on it.  He then asks:

"Am I right in perceiving that it is usually conservatives who are upset about this issue? Why is that?"

I think I pretty much agree with everything Ellen Carpenter says in this article.  I'm a big fan of the current lineup with Nels Cline and Glenn Kotche, obviously, but there still was something special about the Bennett years.  I definitely agree that Bennett helped the band turn the corner on the straightforward "y'allternative" material of A.M., which is a great collection of songs, but not an album in the sense that Being There or especially Summerteeth

We know this: John McCain is all about accountability.  In response to questions from Dick Gregory about the possibility of AG Holder bringing charges against Bush Administration officials for the torture regime, McCain responded:

Open to all discourse, they are, over there. 

I recently replied to a comment on a post at RedState about Mark Sanford's out-of-office sojourn (the post was prior to Sanford's return and disclosure of his affair).  Basically"Jack Savage" said that John Ensign, Mark Sanford, and the rest of the "GOP Appalachian Trail Hiking Gang" would "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."

Here's a little advice for the women out there.  Suppose you're walking along minding your own business and you look around and suddenly you're in a Wilco song.

Get out.  Get the fuck out right now.  'Cause there's a very real possibility you're gonna get your ass beat real soon.