The view from France

I am sitting here using WiFi to try and transact business because ... ATandfrikkinT have decided to unilaterally disable the international functions of my phone. Here's some irony: on the website they have an international helpline for you to call ... if you are having trouble with international roaming. You are locked outside but have to use a key to get inside to get the spare key. You have to send an e-mail to request help for internet connectivity problems.

This sort of logic seems similar to something that the IRS might use. Or Obama.

LA is big on the Arizona boycott ... but an Arizona power commissioner said that he'd be willing to pull the plug on L.A., since Arizona provides L.A. with 25% of its power.  You see, the boycott is limited to LA reviewing which contracts they'd jettison -- sort of having their political cake and eating it. Except that Wicked Witch Arizona just might refuse to play by LA's rules.  Now consider how stupid LA will look with power blackouts entering the hot summer and those considerate Liberals in Hollywood can't switch on the A/C in those 10,000+ sq. ft. houses? I just love the concept, but it does give one pause to think of States engaged in economic warfare with each other. Not good precedent, but there is no question that Arizona did not start it. They have the right to manage their own internal affairs as they want, irrespective of how fundamentally fruitless it might be.