- cnet: Google has launch a new feature called Google Latitude. It allows you to give your close personal friends the chance to stalk you online. Basically, you let people see where you are at a given moment. This isn’t all that new, there are a couple of Twitter-related applications that will do the same thing. Unfortunately, since you’re depending on the person to input where they are, this would not stop Dan Deibert from his crusade to chip every child in the county.
- AP: President Obama announced today that he was putting a cap on the salaries of executives with financial institutions that get bailout money. The stock market seems to hate the idea, it took a nose dive after the news broke. I’m not sure how I feel about this one. The Libertarian in me says that the government shouldn’t be telling anyone how much money they can make, but at the same time I certainly can’t deny that once you take government money you give them some say in the matter. That’s why the government shouldn’t control anything. Novel idea, eh?
- Rasmussen: Support for the economic stimulus plan has eroded to the point that it’s about on par with the Iraq war at its nadir. I was never a fan, so I’d like to welcome all of you newcomers to the team. It looks like the Senate Republicans are going to hold the line on this one as they did in the House. Mitch McConnell was talking about the plan today and truly put the plan in perspective, it would be $1 million per day, every day since the birth of Christ. Actually that’s not quite accurate… it would be considerably more than $1 million per day. But who is counting?
- AP: President Obama also told Anderson Cooper that he hasn’t had a smoke on the White House grounds. I can and understand the argument for the President being a good role model and not publicly engaging in bad habits like smoking, but I’ll say it again. personally I would rather not have the person who is in posession of the nuclear codes to be jonesing for a cigarette. I say smoke all you want Barack. Side note: I hear tell that Laura Bush was a chain smoker.
