There’s a story out now in a book by NY Times reporter James Risen which points to two acts of phenomenal incompetence by the CIA. One is sending an Iranian double agent information which led to the complete dismantling of the CIA spy network in Iran. Hard to know if Read more…
Now this is what makes international politics so interesting. Russia decides they are going to punish the West-leaning current government of the Ukraine by demanding that they suddenly pay 4 times as much for natural gas then they used to. Apparently, that is the price you pay for surviving an Read more…
Let’s hear it for John E Jones III, whose ruling today helps beat back the tide of creationist crap flooding America’s school systems. Hopefully, one day even the kids in Kansas will get their science free of Christian fundamentalist propaganda.
I love this dude Ahmadinejad. He’s so nuts. He’s like a slightly saner version of the Taliban. He’s doing the exact same wacky things they did. Pretty soon he’ll be blowing up statues of Buddha in the desert. I can sympathize a little though. I’ve wanted to ban Western music Read more…
I’m always happy when I see interesting questions like this one raised in a public forum. Even if it is a topic so ‘hot button’ that people can rarely have a civil dicussion about it. In the end though, I have to disagree with the notion of legally “choosing” to Read more…
“Um, yes your honor, I took $2.5 million in bribes, but can I just finish out my term? Pleeeeease? Oh look, a yellow terror alert!” Man. I really really hate politicians.
As an Eagles fan since 1999, when Philadelphia became the first town that I moved to after college, I would just like to take this opportunity to tell both Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader, who seem to feel fit to pass judgement on the decisions of the Eagles coaching staff Read more…
What a novel concept for a music company, “let’s create software that blows up the computers of our customers!”
What the hell were these guys thinking in the first place? Developing malware to be put onto the machines of people who use their products without their knowledge, to monitor their activities and prevent them from doing things that Sony doesn’t want.
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I am really ambivalent about cynicism. On the one hand, I love to engage in it and appreciate it. On the other, I find people who are nothing but cynics intolerably boring. But this example from my pal Jack Rogers, where he was responding to a fairly dumb email thread Read more…
I have to assume that Bill Gates is a pretty smart guy. So when he says things like, there’s going to be a “sea change” in the software industry, I tend to take his word for it. I have to credit my imminently intelligent friend Ian for first explaining to Read more…