Bush shakes up economic team

Bush has an economic team?

A little bit of this, a little bit of that

So I finally have a few spare minutes to blog. A pain-in-the-ass freelance assignment for my former employer sopped up all my free time this week. But the extra cash is always nice.

Thanksgiving weekend was really nice. I stayed with Andrea and work out of IBD's Silicon Valley office that Friday. Being able to spend a lot of time with Andrea at a leisurely pace was nice. We got to see the newly re-opened Union Square in San Francisco and Santana Row, a high-end residential and retail village of sorts in San Jose. It was all pretty fancy, but I heard that a studio apartment right in the heart of the development was renting for $1,200 a month -- exactly what I was paying for a room in San Jose. If only I were still making that kind of money.

This weekend is Andrea's and my 1-year dating anniversary. Man, it went by fast. What a crappy year it would have been without her. Anyway, she flies in late Friday night. I think we'll just hang around Westwood on Friday and drive up to Santa Barbara on Saturday. Maybe we'll even get to see Chad and Susan on Sunday, though Chad has certian romantic obligations of his own, considering it's her birthday. Maybe I'll have new pictures to post. Andrea says I've gained more weight since I moved, so we'll just have to compare photos. For the record, the scale still says 150.

Now it's not just slippery-slope alarmism...

In terror war, 2nd track for suspects

"The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects — U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike — may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system, lawyers inside and outside the government say."