sundry, son of various

Most recent missive from madame Editrix suggests that BURNING BRIDGES may be out in May, not June. Nor July, as originally originally scheduled.

Urrr?

Updates if they happen.

Copyedit ETA Friday morning. Guess I know what my plans for this weekend are, then.


And in other news, there is no other news. Yet. *twitches* *glares in various directions* Have I mentioned recently how very very bad I am at waiting? Not a patient meerkat, no.


And because it's not sundry without a random meme...

( The Theme Song Meme )

more randomosity (political, personal , tv)

from the AP wire: LOS ANGELES - A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutionally vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.

...The judge's 45-page ruling was a reversal of her own tentative findings last July in which she indicated she would uphold wide powers asserted by Bush under an anti-terror financing law. She delayed her ruling then to allow more legal briefs to be filed.

She also struck down the provision in which Bush had authorized the secretary of the treasury to designate anyone who "assists, sponsors or provides services to" or is "otherwise associated with" a designated group.

However, she let stand sections of the order that penalize those who provide "services" to designated terrorist groups. She said such services would include the humanitarian aid and rights training proposed by the plaintiffs.

In 2004, (Judge) Collins ruled that portions of the Patriot Act were too vague and, even after Congress amended the act in 2005, she ruled the provisions remained too vague to be understood by a person of average intelligence and were therefore unconstitutional.

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Was supposed to go out and shoot some pool, but the call of Shit That Needs Doing was too great, as CGAG meets tomorrow and I had only read one of the two submissions (oher than my own, natch). I am Virtuous. Also, had no desire to get my ass whupped by the sharks who call themselves my friends. And also? Am feeling somwhat bah humbuggy and didn't want to bring them down, too.

So I stayed in, worked, and watched tv with the cats.

( tv talk )

Bah. Also humbug.