Like I said the other day, I’m using a canned template that was created by somebody else (Denis Somar. I don’t want to knock the template in any way, on the contrary, I picked it because I liked the look. As I also mentioned the other day, it’s not exactly valid XHTML (although I think Denis made a good faith effort here).

At any rate, I figure the design will work until I have some time to create my own. The previous design wasn’t so much a design as it was an experiment in creating a Wordpress template.

Why am I repeating so much from the previous post?

Because I just found out that in IE6/PC the content was way down below the menus in the sidebar which means ~75% of people visiting my website may have thought there was no content. Oops.

The lesson here is to never assume that something you didn’t make yourself is going to work as advertised. (You would think I would know this already having grown up in a Microsoft world.) It’s also entirely possible that I made a change somewhere the caused the problem as well, even though I didn’t touch the code for the main divs.

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DocG suggested the following government reforms in the comments section of the conservative-yet-honest Balloon Juice blog:

Term limits, public financing of campaigns with a reasonable budget, elimination of spending personal money on seeking election to comgress, a sixty day campaigning window for ALL politically related money sources, 4 free daily 60 second spots on public airwave media during the 60 day window, banning lobbyists from providing anything of value to congresspersons, an absolute ban on former Congressmen from ever lobbying or providing legal advice to Congress or the administrative branch, build a new Capital building in South Dakota (modern communication has eliminated the need to huddle together in DC and the cost of living would be cheaper, its beautiful there, as well as dispersing power) are some ideas for real reform. Add your own to work for.

The bit about South Dakota may be a bit of tongue-in-cheek cheerleading, but these are excellent ideas. I’ve seen most recommended in liberal circles for some time, but I’m willing to bet that dries up the next time liberals come to power. The current leadership of both sides needs to go and some or all of the above needs to be implemented.

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“Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
–Herman Goering at the Nuremburg Trials

Sources:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWgoring.htm
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm

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