May 2008
“Hope, St. Augustine wrote, has two beautiful daughters. They are anger and...”
– Chris Hedges
“Rejecting militarism and empire would not be entirely unprecedented for the...”
– The Way to a Just Foreign Policy
‘Guest workers’ or modern slavery? →
Why switching to Mac was the right move for me →
“The unspoken truth is that these businesses don’t hire illegal aliens...”
– Slavery alive and well in U.S.
Simple math on food costs →
Everybody keeps asking me if they should hold off... →
“We have strict drug laws written by those who generously use the drug alcohol....”
– Ron Paul: Hero Against the Evil Drug War
“Pity the poor word “elite,” which simply means “the best” as an adjective and...”
– Susan Jacoby
“I grew up watching the after school cartoons of Speed Racer, Marine Boy, and...”
– Lisa Pease
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the...”
– William Pitt
Meme
Ten years ago I was: Working as a corporate code monkey, building an an interactive, dynamic testing facility powered by ISPF Dialog Manager, dynamically generated JCL, Assembler, TSO CLIST, REXX and IMS (an old school hierarchical database management system that is still in use at many big Fortune 500 companies). Though I left this well known charge card giant in 2001, my system still lives and...
“The first time I ever saw him speak, I remember having the doors blown off my...”
– Mr. Lessig Goes to Washington
“It turns out that for the past 3 decades, we’ve had a George Costanza...”
– The Big Picture
Not only is former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm a shill... →
Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3 →
“This is nothing less than compelling evidence that, in terms of our...”
– CNN/ABC reporter: Corporate executives forced pro-Bush, pro-war narrative
Top seven reasons "Why I love to write code" →
“If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White...”
– Scott McClellan
“OK. When the Bush administration ends and there are all those ‘kiss and...”
– McClellan is telling the truth
The Geopolitics of $130 Oil →
Climate Change Already Affecting U.S. Water, Land,... →
“That is one of the simplest and most clearly written bits of legislation...”
– Corrections: In Which the New York Times Perpetuates the Myth It Created — That Bush Won Florida in 2000
“Greed is not merely a private matter, something to rant about or laugh about as...”
– Susan Jacoby
The Republican War on Voting →
“Many of the lobbying connections the press has dug up on McCain have been...”
– Big Trouble?
Blogging--It's Good for You →
Indeed. Writing can be a therapeutic elixir. (via dawnowar, bui)
“Critics of high taxes and generous government benefits sometimes imagine that...”
– Sweden: Image and Reality
Compared to Other Liquids, Gasoline is Cheap →
“In the real world national borders, commercial rivalries and political...”
– Storm warning for cloud computing
John McSame →
Remembering Sydney Pollack →
“Your theory of a doughnut shaped universe is intriguing… I may have to...”
– Is the universe a doughnut?
A man awakes from anesthesia to find a nurse... →
Government lawyers told federal judges that the... →
WatchRobert Ballard: Exploring the ocean’s hidden worlds
Is There a Cure for the 'Distraction Virus'? →