I’m not particularly a big fan of web-based relationships or communities. But Paterson’s new essay on the topic is a good one. Read it. I think there are definite possibilities in the spaces he describes. The question for me is whether our “forced” participation in the current system will allow enough of us sufficient time…
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Marc is a software developer, writer, and part-time political know-it-all who currently resides in Texas in the good ol' U.S.A.
Illegal Immigration = Identity Theft?
Dave Navarrette wonders why La Migra is spinning their daring raid on several chicken plants as “a crackdown on identity theft“. I don’t think this is any mystery: it’s because the other branches of the government and a certain political party that benefits from illegal immigration don’t care about the root crime itself. Immigration is…
Guy’s Inspiring Business Story of the Year
Read Guy Kawasaki’s interview with Aziza Mohmmand, an Afghani female entrepreneur – wow. Prime Q&A: Question: What did you like the most and the least about America? Answer: What I liked was the discipline in driving, great roads, advancement in the infrastructure of the country, respect, cooperation of people with each other, the value of…
Bad Liberal Ideas
Here’s a blog entry that shows, yet again, why liberals shouldn’t be elected dog catcher, let alone to a real job. The prime quote: Principal Paul Richards said a key reason for stopping the practice [ed. of printing the names of honor roll students in the local paper] is its contribution to students’ stress level…
MySpace to be Safer?
MySpace is trying to make itself safe for kids but it’s a waste of time and effort. Don’t be fooled – there is no reliable way to keep human trash from trolling for underage victims given the current state of the Net. Do we really want to eliminate that sort of behavior? Sure, but at…
Civilians in Iraq
The Chronicle says that 3,709 Iraqi civilians were killed in October 2006. Kind of puts the ~100 American troops in perspective a bit, doesn’t it? At some level we – the U.S – have to accept part of the responsibility, I think, when the TCOTWII, Total Cost of the War in Iraq, is computed.
“Experts” Pan Houston’s Sekula-Gibbs
Shelly Sekula-Gibbs ran off all of Tom DeLay’s staffers – hooray! That ought to be a good thing but now the so-called experts are all up in arms against her. Gary Polland, a former Harris County Republican chairman: “if she decides to run in two years, the story will be, ‘That’s right, Shelley was in…
D-R-A-F-T
That’s what Charles Rangel of New York wants to re-instate. He says: There’s no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft, and members of Congress and the administration thought that…
4 Years Ago Today: Big Brother is Coming
4 years ago I wrote: The fact is, there is always going to be a certain amount of risk involved in living. No President can change that by ordering profiles created on each of us. A better first step would be to build a working immigration and naturalization system. Non-citizens inherently have lower expectations of…
Lou Dobbs Democrats
Lou Dobbs: “It seems nothing frightens our free trade and pro-illegal immigration orthodoxies more than putting the common good and the national interest above dominant special interests, corporate America and, of course, our darling elites in both political parties and the media.”