Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Wed, 28 Sep 2005

What do you have to do to get pardoned by the President?

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Congratulations to Tom Delay on his long-awaited indictment, and continuing sympathies to the people he is supposed to represent.

It's interesting, as the Center for American Progress points out, that on this same day, the President granted fourteen pardons.

Now I'm not going to assume that any of these pardons were done for political reasons (though I agree that doing it today is a good smokescreen). But it's fascinating to look at who is on the list and what their offenses were. Mail fraud, counterfeiting, drug dealers, mailing a threatening letter, and so forth.

The strangest offense: "Property damage by use of explosives and destruction of an energy facility."