Can Ugly be a Roman numeral? That’s what the U stands for. I’m a pretty reserved dude for the most part. In the last 12 years, I’ve cried roughly 5-6 times that I really remember, and believe me, this last decade wasn’t too good to me. When my wife left me, that was one. When [...]
So, we started off the week watching the Saints play the dirtiest game they could possibly muster against the Vikings. Literally, Gregg Williams admitted that his game plan was to have his guys ignore penalties and try to injure a 40 year old future Hall of Famer. I’d say that’s going to come back to [...]
I heard that line again. If there is one phrase from this last decade that needs to die, it’s “We fight them there, so we don’t have to fight them here!” How, pray tell, do you stand up and cheer at the Olympics for a nation of people who hide and cower behind their troops [...]
Okay, so my old, exceptionally expensive laptop’s graphic cards blew up. Don’t work. Then my desktop died. Thankfully, in a pinch of spend craziness, I bought a sub-400 dollar netbook last year (MSi Wind, great netbook by the way)…and I used that to get myself a job. Had two offers on the table, one was [...]
Allow me to provide a perspective for you from the perspective of someone who came dangerously close to the point of no return. This will most likely offend your sensibilities, so be warned. Yes, it’s about society. More importantly, it’s about your society, and your social mores, and whether or not you participated in this, [...]
I don’t make it hidden that I’m a big fan of Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labor under President Clinton. However, I’ve got to say this. I don’t think the amount of the stimulus, at this point, is the problem with how the stimulus has been utilized so far. I think it’s really the number of federal employees going over various project submissions that has been the problem…there aren’t enough of them.
So the Cato Institute guys are rattling the Social Security cage again in order to gin up their Libertarian base like they do every year. As if a total repudiation of their philosophy worldwide wasn’t enough for them. Here’s why Social Security isn’t a Ponzi scam, and why neo-conservatives should really read up on Ponzi [...]
Generally, the Republican Party (and a couple of gutless Democrats) shelved the Mathew Shepard/James Byrd act for 12 years because, according to them, it would be an “unwarranted expansion of federal power” and an “unconstitutional thought-crimes law”. The reason is that it gives the Federal government the power to intercede in certain cases where the [...]
“So, you kids think you should have something to hope for? THINK AGAIN, PUNKS!”
With all the recent outages, it’s hard not to be at least a little suspicious. After all, every social networking technology wants to be tight with Twitter. They want their updates pumped out over everything because everyone is clamoring to be that central hub of the social network on the Internet. They know full well [...]