Stuff about politics and politicians.
At first glance, something like this seems to be a good idea for consumers. But as a software developer, I can say with complete certainty that it would drive the cost of software into the stratosphere, and run every software company that’s smaller than Microsoft or IBM out of business. And if Microsoft had the …
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Uh-oh, looks like french fries are about to become “freedom fries” again. 😉
For someone like me, who always tries to trace the reasons for human behaviors, there were a couple of very odd interviews on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report this week. These shows almost always interview recently-published authors on book-promotion tours. The interviews are set up by the authors’ publicists, to get the word …
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…now all you have to do is fix the economy, win the war on terrorism, and part the Red Sea, and you might just be remembered as something more than the first African-American US President. Good luck. I suspect you’re going to need it.
…and the only guy that scares the piss out of the Antichrist.” (With thanks to today’s Dilbert Blog entry.)
I love seeing politicians being caught in their own traps.
In a conversation a while back, I needed a word to express the opposite of authoritarian. I couldn’t find one in my memory, which struck me as odd, so I later looked it up. It seems that there is no English word that describes the opposite of authoritarian; the closest thing I found, after perusing …