A psycho gunman was loose on a college campus this A.M. and is believed to have committed suicide. A second armed perpetrator is alleged and the search is underway for this person. I’ve asked this question before, but what ever happened to the era of quiet desperation when the terminally insane simply shot themselves? What’s…
Month: September 2010
Sad Day in Iran
In Iran, Canadian/Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan has been sentenced to 19.5 years in jail for his unsanctioned writings about the state of Iran. It’s a sad day for him, of course, but also for the Iranian people, who, governed by a grotesque set of fascist thugs masquerading as representatives of God, are no more free…
Drugs and Jail
Melanie Phillips: Prison is supposed to help inmates get on the straight and narrow. Yet when they go to jail they have arrived in junkie heaven.
Net Neutrality is about the ph…
Net Neutrality is about the physical medium and plumbing, not the virtual media. http://scripting.com/stories/2010/09/23/netNeutrality.html
RT @unclebobmartin Hat’s off t…
RT @unclebobmartin Hat’s off to the Republican Women! They’ve got the stodgy old GOP buggers on the run. // New blood is a good thing
Tough Times Humor
The economy is so bad that I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. I ordered a burger at McDonald’s, and the kid behind the counter asked, "Can you afford fries with that?" CEO’s are now playing miniature golf. If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you have to call and ask…
This is the result of the grea…
This is the result of the great social “experiment” known as Communism, the epitome of a God-less society: http://is.gd/ffnFe
Tim Berners-Lee: Internet acce…
Tim Berners-Lee: Internet access should be free to all. Fantasy. UN head: information a basic human right. But who pays? http://is.gd/ffe7V
Don’t ask, don’t tell is one o…
Don’t ask, don’t tell is one of those fringe issues that divides for no purpose. Mainstreamers should simply ignore the issue as pointless
9/11 – Nine Years Later
Nine years ago I was working in my home office when the first tower was struck at the World Trade Center. Glued to the television as the skyscraper, a monument to western civilization’s ingenuity crumbled, I understood, truly for the first time, the existential, exponential relationship between creation and destruction. More than anything, the Muslim…