What kind of idiot expects a company to stay in business whilst losing money? HHS Secretary Sebelius (and her boss) http://bit.ly/avzu0b
Author: marc
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.
Remembering the Real American Dream
What is the American Dream? Is it dead? Some seem to think so. And they may well be right, according to the modern definition of that Dream. In computing the term Moore’s Law (no relation, sadly) means that “number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two…
The Father-Son Ad the NCAA Won’t Let Fans See
See anything offensive in this ad? The NCAA does. No wonder this country’s jacked up.
Dave Winer: “I want the collec…
Dave Winer: “I want the collective press to be like a microphone…that simply tells us what was said or done, without spin or savvy.” Yep.
Put People to Work by Lowering the Minimum Wage
It should be obvious to everyone that the minimum wage employers may legally pay workers is directly linked to the number of job openings companies will have at the unskilled end of the market. But evidently that bitter economic reality is lost on Democrats in Congress: the recent act of Congress that has caused the…
Of COBRA Bills and Other Snake Oil
Republican Senator Jim Bunning, who was known as a daffy baseball pitcher back in the day and a casual senator with a tendency to napping in session in the present, has given up his one-man speed bump imitation and will allow Democrats’ plan to extend COBRA benefits and subsidies to unemployed workers for an additional…
Court Packing Should Not be an Option for Obama
Steve Isaacs says that President Obama should take advantage of the Constitution’s failure to fix the number of Supreme Court justices and do an end-run around the court that dealt the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law a death blow last year. Why? Because he and other liberals fear that the courts might weigh in against the…
Rhode Island Teachers Fired, With Cause
Every teacher in what is demonstrably the worst-performing school district in the state of Rhode Island – which is to a Texan little more than a glorified county, in truth – has been fired. The state’s tiniest, poorest city has become the center of a national battle over dramatic school reform. On the one side,…
Global warming? I think not. I…
Global warming? I think not. It is snowing in Central Texas again, with March just right around the corner. Snow day, anyone?
Texas Man Blows Stack, Slams Plane into IRS Building
What made Joe Stack, 53, a computer programmer with a history of trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, write a lengthy diatribe blasting the government in general and the IRS in particular, then deliberately take to the air and crash his private plane into an office building housing the IRS’ “office of last resort”, killing…