Miscellaneous

My new favorite Congressman

Last Saturday, there was a special election in the 14th Congressional District of Illinois, fat bastard Dennis Hastert's old stomping ground. Democrat Bill Foster won the election, which came as a bit of surprise in the Republican stronghold. I'm always happy to see a Dem take a Republican's seat, not that the Dems are necessarily that much better.

But in this case, I'm particularly happy, because Representative Foster is also a nerd. He's a physicist with a Ph.D. from Harvard, and he knows how to write software code. In assembly (for the non-nerds out there, that's some true nerd shit, trust me). He spent 22 years working at Fermi, studying high energy particles, and he's even done circuit design.

To most of our readers, none of this likely means shit. But it warms the cockles of my nerdy little heart, it truly does.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on March 17, 2008 (boomark / email).