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Saturday, 18 December 2010
Friday, 17 December 2010
While granting that the Fokker franchise is a long way from "Taxi Driver" or "The Graduate", if they're going to agree to shill for their latest film on the talk show circuit, shouldn't DeNiro and Hoffman at least sit up straight in their chairs?Watching Letterman read past movie glories from sheets of paper while his guests schlumped down in their seats was probably as painful to perform as it was to watch, but I'm not a professional TV watcher, while they are considered highly-regarded actors.So act interested, will ya? What an awkward segme...
Monday, 13 December 2010
Saturday, 11 December 2010
Monday, 6 December 2010
Saturday, 4 December 2010
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people....To destroy this invisible government, to befoul this unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of statesmanship. - Theodore RooseveltBully. Bully....
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Monday, 22 November 2010
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Monday, 8 November 2010
I've been doing a slow burn since the election as the avalanche of excuses for why Dems lost the House and some key Senate seats has roared down the media mountain.Thankfully, David Sirota has taken the time to summarize the issues at hand.Go fuck yourself because all of your arguments are about what policies should be pursued to rescue Democratic politicians' electoral future, rather than about what policies are needed to rescue, say, the fucking country's future. Additionally, go fuck yourself because if you know so much about winning elections...
Friday, 5 November 2010
How Matt Taibbi is able to continually squeeze through the bullshit and come out crystal clear on the other side is beyond me, but his analysis of the Olbermann campaign contribution kerfuffle is spot-on.We had a whole generation of journalists who sat by and did nothing while, for instance, George Bush led us into an idiotic war on a lie, plus thousands more who spent day after day collecting checks by covering Britney's hair and Tiger's text messages and other stupidities while the economy blew up and two bloody wars went on mostly unexamined......
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
I listened to part of Obama's post-election presser today, and I had to turn it off. I thought about what he was saying and knew I had a problem with it, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why.Thankfully, there's Paul Krugman:Nobody cares about this stuff — they care about results. Nobody really cares about earmarks; they’re just code for spending less (less on somebody else, of course, not me). Nobody cares about civility and bipartisanship, which in practice are code for Democrats giving in to Republican demands. Nobody cares about parliamentary...
Sunday, 31 October 2010
Saturday, 30 October 2010
Sunday, 24 October 2010
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Baffled as to why these misperceptions still exist.Could someone please tell journalists to write 1000 words on reality. I realize this might be more difficult than simply cutting and pasting press releases from the GOP, and columnists might not get invited to the cool parties anymore, but for crying out loud.On a positive note, I'll bet half of Americans can name eight contestants on Dancing With The Stars....
The Citizens United decision was terrible on several levels. We're already seeing the effects of torrential special interest money cascading through this election cycle. I just want to veg out and watch an hour of television, but that means sitting through a monsoon of campaign ads full of lies, half-truths, selective interpretations, and negativity. I can't do it.Money rules politics and government. It always has, and it always will. The system is engineered to ensure that never changes. I get it.Thankfully, there are still a couple of folks who...
It's really lousy that a lone, low-ranking military intelligence operative could violate his oath and our morality by leaking hundreds of thousands of electronic documents gathered during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.That said, if the press corp was doing its job, and our government could tell the truth and maintain some sort of temerity to stick to American values and traditions, Wikileaks would be irrelevant.We reap what we sow sometimes. Let...
Friday, 22 October 2010
Thursday, 21 October 2010
This is a fascinating piece in Scientific American about the six primary steps in the escape theory that culminates in probable suicide when all the criteria are met.In considering people’s motivations for killing themselves, it is essential to recognize that most suicides are driven by a flash flood of strong emotions, not rational, philosophical thoughts in which the pros and cons are evaluated critically. And, as I mentioned in last week’s column on the evolutionary biology of suicide, from a psychological science perspective,...
Monday, 18 October 2010
Brian Krebs, writing in his Krebs on Security blog, comments on reports from Microsoft that the number of attacks against Java vulnerabilities has overtaken attacks against Adobe products. Adobe is obviously breathing a sigh of relief.Says Krebs:My research shows the reason for the spike, and it precedes the 3rd quarter of 2010: Java exploits have been folded into a number of the top “exploit packs,” commercial crimeware kits sold in the hacker underground that make it simple to seed hacked or malicious sites with code that exploits a variety of...
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Love Matt Taibbi:But these Tea Partyers make themselves fair game with their preposterous absolutist stance on government. If you call Obamacare radical socialism and unemployment insurance a parasitic welfare state program—well, guess what, asshole, you’re going to get rung up when we find out you had your whole family living off state medical aid and farm subsidi...
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Gin and Tacos has a plaintive piece on the absolute futility of expecting either party to solve the unemployment dilemma via more magical "job retraining" programs:The problem, of course, is that we can retrain people until the cows come home and it won't matter because the jobs aren't there. We keep adding more people to the game of musical chairs, and if the number of chairs doesn't increase it really doesn't matter how quick the players are. So when the White House announces the thousandth "job training initiative" of the last 20 years in response...
Saturday, 2 October 2010
Friday, 1 October 2010
Saturday, 25 September 2010
I think Peter Daou is right:America is in an Age of Denial, a time in which intolerable injustices are widely ignored, from preventable hunger, poverty and disease to irreversible environmental destruction to the global oppression of girls and women.It is an age where wealth disparities are at record levels, where a war based on lies and deceptions that resulted in unimaginable carnage is heralded as a success, where the assault on basic rights and liberties is greeted with a yawn — if not a che...
Friday, 24 September 2010
If you're not shielding the ATM keypad before entering your PIN number, this video will demonstrate the error of your ways.With the use of card skimming devices on the rise, and given the public's inability to determine if an ATM has been compromised, shielding the keypad is one of the only defenses available.Via Gaw...
Thursday, 23 September 2010
Monday, 20 September 2010
Monday, 13 September 2010
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Matt Taibbi is poking at David Brooks again, but I happen to agree with this particular passage:A few weeks before that I tried on a friend’s recommendation to get into Entourage and gave up after it struck me that it was the same show as Sex and the City – a drama about a foursome of impulsive yuppies with lots of disposable income who spend half of each show buying brand-name consumer products to make them feel better about having no brains/soul. And the plot of pretty much every reality show is the same: ordinary middle American Joes with poor...
Friday, 27 August 2010
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Saturday, 7 August 2010
Friday, 6 August 2010
Thursday, 5 August 2010
If a tree falls in the woods and there's no one there to hear it, does it still make a sound? Such is the conundrum faced by philosophers for generations.What if a critical flaw in Adobe Reader was demonstrated before a group of security professionals at the Black Hat conference and none of them made a sound, either?That's what Charlie Miller must be thinking. He's the security expert that presented the vulnerability at Black Hat. His lament? "Adobe...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
My penis is very ergonomic. I should know. I've been holding it for nearly fifty years.I wouldn't mind having a BioErgonomic pen, even though I do a lot more typing that writing these days. Anything that's better for my body gets a thumbs-up.But does it need to look like a johnson? And will the tip dry out if I don't put the cap back on?Can I call it the Bic Dick?Does it come with its own rollerballs?Does the ink turn the paper yellowish over time?I...
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I've started taking a super-powerful antibiotic that targets bacterial infections, and the warning label says that severe, rampant diarrhea may occur, sometimes weeks or months after treatment.I guess killing the good bacteria in your gastrointestinal system while also knocking off bad bacteria elsewhere is something of a trade-off. I hope I'm not in the middle of a long car ride if this kicks in. That would suck.For everyo...
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Monday, 2 August 2010
Various news agencies and bloggers are at different levels of Defcon over the White House Correspondents Association decision to move Fox to the front row in the White House briefing room.No one outside of this infuriating clique cares unless the result is lower unemployment, exits from two wars, and no more hungry childr...
Sunday, 1 August 2010
Dear Coke Talk goes all Professor Peabody when asked about the vacuous phrase, "Drill, baby, drill."The etymology of the phrase “drill, baby, drill” is derived from the legendary words attributed to Bill Epton, a militant black activist who was jailed for uttering “burn, baby, burn” in response to the Harlem riots of 1964And:Once upon a time in America, a black man was convicted and imprisoned because the words “burn, baby, burn” were an incitement...
Saturday, 31 July 2010
Friday, 30 July 2010
Recent surveys detailed at TechDirt inform us that the US ranks about 27th in broadband download and upload speeds, behind such technological powerhouses as Kyrgyzstan.I'm calling this the "Borat Effect," so you'll need to pay me if you use that. Real moneys, too.We're falling behind is just about everything due to two factors: greed and cowardice. US broadband providers want to extract as much profit from their business as possible while providing...
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