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The Romans had a habit of presenting crowns of various sorts to soldiers and generals who had earned them one way or another. There was a crown for breaking a siege; one for saving the life of a soldier; and so on. Very cool. Also, certain crowns merited freedom from taxes and the like. I think that we could profitably resume this custom. Let no Medal of Honour recipient ever pay any taxes again.

emms is the Emacs Multimedia System; it allows one to play audio and video (hence the multimedia…) from within emacs. Emacs, of course, is the Swiss Army text editor.

A man ran into the Oregon Senate and held a knife to his chest for about an hour. This really isn’t that big a deal, but an idiot senator (a Democrat, of course) says, We've tried to have as much public access as possible. Obviously, this is a dose of reality. How so? Who cares if a man manages to get into the Senate with a knife or other weapon? Surely everyone is armed and able to handle an attacker. Oh, they’re not—well that’s their own damned fault then.