Mother of all hypocrisies

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U.S. Representative Ed Schrock has abrubtly withdrawn from his reelection bid, after allegations that he was gay surfaced on a weblog a few weeks ago. Oh, and there are audio tapes of him trying to arrange trysts for gay sex. Normally, that'd be no big deal, but this guy was one of the most conservative members of Congress and co-sponsored the proposed Anti-Gay Marriage amendment. He's also scored a 92% favorable rating from the Christian Coalition. Think they'll take back their endorsement now?

There's more, including an audio clip, and a transcript of one of the phone sex calls at Raw Story.

The Virginia Pilot reported in October 2000 that Schrock favored ending the Clinton administration's ''don't ask, don't tell'' policy on gays in the military, BlogActive noted.

"He supports asking enlistees whether they have had homosexual experiences in an effort to to try to keep gays from serving. 'You're in the showers with them, you're in the bunk room with them, you're in staterooms with them,' Schrock said."

Indeed, Schrock should know, he was in the Navy for 24 years, rising from Ensign to the rank of Captain.

And, while normally I wouldn't consider being gay a reason to quit, it strikes me as more than a bit of poetic justice that Schrock is now out of a job, considering he voted against protecting homosexuals from discrimination in the workplace.

Elementary, my dear Watson

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I'm going to help out the Marietta, Georgia police with this one:

Police said Hutcherson and Brohm -- friends since high school -- were drinking at a bar Saturday night and left after Brohm said he felt sick.

Brohm, 23, apparently was leaning out of the window when Hutcherson hit the support wire about a mile and a half from the bar, but police did not know why.

By using my powers of deduction, I'm going to guess that Brohm thought he was going to throw up, and that's why he was leaning out the window, minutes after leaving a bar where he complained he felt sick, but hey, what do I know?

Now Hiring

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The University of Northern Iowa is now looking to hire a Programmer Analyst.

NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information management, or related field required. Candidates must possess an understanding of administrative uses of computing services, have a working knowledge of SQL, knowledge or exposure to a relational DBMS, and course work or practical experience with modern programming languages such as Java, Perl, C++. Experience with UNIX operating systems, Oracle DBMS, and Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle Reports, Oracle Forms, Oracle Discoverer, JSP, and familiarity with University standards and practices preferred.

McAfee Anti-Spyware

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I saw today that Staples has McAfee AntiSpyware free after rebate, so I picked up a copy. I re-did my home machine when XP SP2 was released, so it's pretty clean. After installing and updating McAfee's product, I did a scan, and it detected 3 things: "Adult Links": This was something related to the ICQ search bar that ICQ annoyingly installed in IE, but since I don't use IE, I really hand't worried about removing it yet.

"ABCKeylogger" mouse/keystroke logger: This is what it thinks my registry entry for Macromedia Flash files is, as well as my Windows Update/Auto Update .adm template. Don't ask me why, I looked them over, and they're completely normal as far as I can tell. If you can hide a keylogger in an .adm file, you're pretty clever.

"BackAttack" remote administration tool: Again, this is what it thinks of my .mfp file association in the registry, and all it contains is "MacromediaFlashPaper.MacromediaFlashPaper"

So, in conclusion, McAfee Anti-Spyware seems to be worth about what I paid for it, after rebate. :)