This has been a busy week for Microsoft. After Monday’s Microsoft Surface announcement and Wednesday’s announcement of Windows Phone 8, I feel it is necessary to see how the Smartphone/mobile world war is going. For those of you unfamiliar with…
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30 years of false representation: A love letter to charts
Suffice it to say you will not make a good impression with me by singing the praises of Ronald Reagan. I don’t think he was evil, I think he had an ideology that he truly believed would lead to a…
Free Market Fallacy
One of the frequent topics of conservatives and libertarians is the notion of market freedom. The idea is often expressed with longing. Take for example the discussion of the 2008 credit crisis. The story is often told how Fannie mae…
Governing to the 1%
Governing to the 1% There has been a lot of discussion about guns in the wake of the Arizona shooting. People have been trying to see how they can prevent the next tragedy and people in the days that followed…
How about erring on the side of life of the would-be-mother?
In the Pro-life vs. Pro-choice debate there is one argument that the pro-lifer’s throw up that they feel has no response. The so called erring on the side of life. The idea being, since no one can truly say when…
Shoot the hostage
There is a group of 41 psychopaths in D.C. and they have taken hostages. There ransom note says their demands need to be met before December 31. Time is running out, they refuse to negotiate. There is no way to…
The District of Plutocracy: Grand old Lie Part II
Last time I spoke about the election and the deficit lie. There is another lie that threads through our politics constantly. It’s the lie that says we all suffer the same burdens. It’s the lie that falsely unites us; make…
why you yes you need to vote this november
Why you, yes YOU, should vote this november It’s an off year election, one that promises to be a low turn out year. And why not, the past year has been nothing but one long example of how governments should…
It’s a new word everybody panic: or how our willful ignorance will lead us to kill each other.
Growing up, i didn’t really appreciate school. Frankly a lot of it always seemed like busy work. Until this morning, I didn’t think there was ever any real reason why I had to read Eugene O’Neill in high school. Today…
Rotten Food
Friendly’s in an effort to compete with the ever changing landscape of putting relatively unhealthy things in between two other relatively unhealthy things to make dangerously unhealthy things has a new product. They are competing with the infamous KFC double…