Last year was not good for race relations in the US. To be honest there really hasn’t been a “good year” but there have been non-bad years 2014 though was not one of them. A lot of people on my…
Tag: rants
Why I Don’t Care About the Second Amendment Rights Fight
I’ve said many times before that I don’t want to ban guns. With the amount of guns on the market already and the amount that would likely sell before a ban took effect, it would not only be ineffective it…
Government’s really bad week
Apparently someone put all the federal government agencies in a pot and put them on a low flame and now suddenly they all started popping with scandals like kernels of corn. Wow that is a great simile, I should stop…
Facebook Home: The Good, The Bad, and the WTF HTC
Facebook announced the long rumored Facebook Phone. What is interesting about it is that it’s more than a phone. In fact the phone is secondary to the experience. What Facebook really announced was Facebook home, an app the brings Facebook front and center starting with a…
Fiscal Follies – Understanding the Fiscal Cliff
Imagine you’re sick. Imagine that for a while your doctors thought you’d actually die but you managed to plug along and were actually showing signs of getting better. But here is the thing you’ve been sick for years and while…
Renewable Energy Is Worth 90 Billion Dollars of Government Funding
One of the most remarkable statements to come out of last week’s presidential debates was Romney’s claim about Obama’s energy policies. Romney claimed that Obama had wasted 90 billion dollars in subsidies and loans on renewable energy, and that half…
Liberal Freebies: A Discussion About the Poor in America
One of the constant tropes of the conservative populi is some variation of the bread and circus argument. The idea that liberals and Democrats, to lure people to vote for them, will simply offer more freebies to their base so…
A Vote for the Republican Party is a Vote Against American Democracy
As provocative as that title is I’m not making an entirely hyperbolic claim. Let me be clear from the outset, I’m not claiming that Republicans are un-American, or that their policies are anathema to democracy. This post in fact has…
Software patents must die!
This week in a startling move Apple was granted a preliminary injunction on the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the Google reference phone. The preliminary injunction was granted due to a claim of patent infringement on Samsungs part regarding…
Conservatives it’s an election year do you know where your party stands?
I am a liberal, this should be clear to anyone who has read any two posts I’ve put up here, but still it’s good to be honest. When I started this blog I didn’t know what I would end up…