The Radical Moderate

Other than the regular rocket fire aimed at Israeli civilians?

One article talks about a Pal news agency shutting down over Palestinian Authority high handedness. Freedom of the press isn't a good thing even for "moderate" Arabs. Another shows Hamas not allowing Gazans to go on Hajj. They claim Islam is central to everything they do, and Hajj is a major requirement of Muslims, so why prevent travel? It seems that travel was organized by the PA and Fatah. So, Islam takes a back seat to internecine violence. That's not new, but when will more people openly discuss that?

In this week's News of the Weird, there's a very funny bit, if you're an old enough techie.

"Facing a state budget crisis in July, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fired about 10,000 temporary and part-time workers and ordered the 200,000 permanent employees to be paid only the minimum wage of $6.55 an hour until the legislature passed a crisis-solving budget. However, a week later the State Controller John Chiang pointed out that state payroll records could not be changed to accommodate the cut because they were written in the antiquated COBOL computer language, and virtually the only state employees who knew the code were some of the part-timers Schwarzenegger had just fired. [Sacramento Bee, 8-5-08]"