Cyberspaced out

2008-10-31T10:29:00.000-07:00

Okay, I haven't kept up this blog. Partially, it's because of health problems and overtime at work. But partially, it was the fact that my initial candidate, Hillary, didn't win. It did get me down for a while. Of course I backed Obama, I'm a Democrat, but I wasn't terribly enthusiastic. But seeing him closer up for months now, seeing how absolutely brilliant his campaign has been, has raised my

2008-01-07T12:16:00.000-08:00

I had never seen this guy before, and he looks really intense and maybe even weird. His name is Robert Zubrin, and he popped up on my TV screen on C-Net on Jan. 6. His topic was simple: how do we break the monopoly power of OPEC? That's the relevant question of the 21st century, and I had never heard of anyone give such a detailed analysis of how to get there. Well, he simplifies the process in

2007-12-31T15:30:00.002-08:00

2007-12-16T11:48:00.000-08:00

2007-11-07T18:50:00.001-08:00

Coalition of the Clueless.That's who's on the other side of the picket line in the WGA strike, and the most distinct voice today is Michael Eisner. He's blaming it all on Steve Jobs. Really, Mikey? That is the epitome of stupid, and you ought to know better. The fact that you don't is the reason you lost your studio, Mike. Now, I don't know the breakdown of the price in movie and TV downloads in

2007-10-29T23:25:00.000-07:00

Crazy people of the day. Norman Podhoretz on the MacNeil News Hour. Why should we bomb Iran? Well, because, and I kid you not, if we had taken action earlier against Hitler, we could have avoided the Second World War. That's it, the whole sum of his analysis: Ahmedinijad is the new Hitler.Iran has an economy the size of Finland. They may get a few A-bombs eventually, but at least according to

2007-10-23T12:34:00.000-07:00

Pete Stark was right.There is very little evidence, at this point, that Bush is acting out of any other motivation besides a narcissistic sadism. Right now, he's going down as the worst president ever, in charge of the most misguided military operation ever, that is hemorrhaging money and lives at a rate you normally don't see outside movies like Halloween 69, all for the benefit of high oil

2007-10-22T11:43:00.000-07:00

I've decided to keep up this blog on a more regular basis. Maybe it's the approach of the elections. There was a Republican debate (yawn) last night, where the hangers-on in Vulcan's blacksmith shop played with anvils and hammers, the Red Sox (yay!) won the ALCS, and the lovely Valerie Plame was on 60 Minutes. It's a tempo that's picking up, and by October '08, it will be unstoppable. I went to

2007-10-18T10:07:00.000-07:00

2007-10-17T01:37:00.001-07:00

Somebody I know -- ha, ha -- recorded a question for Jimmy Carter. He submitted it to CNN and didn't remember to watch. Then he went in to work the next day, and he was a big celebrity. It was amazing to have been a huge YouTube head that could have crushed the tiny ex-president with his huge jaw.

2006-03-10T21:17:00.000-08:00

Google News

2004-03-21T11:04:00.000-08:00

Saw a couple of TV programs: one was a political humor colloquy on C-Span. This confirmed that a) Stephen Colbert is one of the quickest, funniest guys around, b) Drew Carey is a likeable, non-extreme conservative, and c) that one of my former idols, Phil Hendrie, has become one of his own cartoonish characters: Phil Gasbag, the "Roosevelt-loving," FOX Democrat. I guess he's been hanging around

2004-02-22T15:34:00.000-08:00

Salon.com News | Schwarzenegger argues for White House run The idiot's been in office, what, three months, and his name is already coming up in presidential rumors? What on Earth has he done? Answer: demagogued his way to Sacramento, with the help of the military-showbiz complex, cut the car tax by $4 billion, and made one spastic attempt after another to cut "waste". Oh, by waste, which he

2004-02-20T17:20:00.000-08:00

More and more, it's going to be a race between religion and common sense, and common sense isn't doing very well right now. The new rubric among the spongeheads is "secularists," as if the last century or so has been a horror film in these United States, when secular society has been in the ascendant. Ecclesiastical fatheads are in the ascendant everywhere, from Iran to the U.S. Apparenly, none

2003-02-19T06:22:00.000-08:00

Woke up to hearing a guy talking about the inevitable panic, long lines and wretchedness that would come if we're hit by a biological agent. Duct tape is the least of it, folks. Wonderful days. Sure glad we have an illiterate election thief in charge.

2001-10-14T16:49:00.000-07:00

You know, I'm just egotistical enough that I think I will like this blogging stuff. I'm now trying out an Applescript that will make a blog even if I'm not at the site. I'm still trying out how to read many other people's writings. Contents of blogs are individual, but their context is collective. No?

2001-10-14T15:58:00.000-07:00

The thought goes like this: most of the time we think of privacy the wrong way. What privacy rests on, paradoxically, is positive I.D. Your thumbprint, or your D.N.A., are technical wonders, because they are Unique Identifiers: they give verifiable evidence of your individual existence. In the computer age, these things can be tied to various database clusters: your credit, your medical and