Jamie Grove, who writes a thoughtful and interesting blog, posted a critique of a critique he got from me (and another from Eden) as part of Brain Harvest’s Fresh Eyes critiquing service. I’m a sucker for attention, so it’s incredibly flattering to read anything that both mentions me by name and spells that name correctly. [...]
She is the gift that keeps on giving. Bachmann was on Sean Hannity’s radio show recently. Choice cuts: Economics works equally in any country. Where freedom is tried, the people rejoice. But where tyranny is enforced upon the people, as Barack Obama is doing, the people suffer and mourn. And there was this exchange: Bachmann: Right [...]
Goddamnit. Electric cars have been getting a lot of buzz lately, but a more immediately viable transportation fuel of the future could be liquid derived from coal. Scientists have devised a new way to transform coal into gas for your car using far less energy than the current process. The advance makes scaling up [...]
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Michele Bachmann brings the stupid like few others in the history of mankind. You can see the confusion on Geithner and Bernanke’s faces give way to astonishment, recognition, and finally, disgust.
“Facilitate architectural governance and participate as an acting member of the design committee and other corporate teams.”
This chick bores me half the time, infuriates me half the time, and amazes me half the time. This is that latter half.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
You’re never as alone as you feel.
Today I got rejected from the job I figured I’d probably land. After a fourty minute interview the guy decided I probably wasn’t a good fit, which is fine – I probably wasn’t. This was a job as a tech writer, which I’ve never had before, and which I had reservations about, but my reservations [...]
It turns out there is a western country will full legalization; including heroin and cocaine. Portugtal. Via Glenn Greenwald: In 2001, Portugal became the only EU-member state to decriminalize drugs, a distinction which continues through to the present. Last year, working with the Cato Institute, I went to that country in order to research the effects of the [...]
In my last days at BAE the venerable Fox and Friends would invariably include a daily segment where somebody or other took Obama to task for being “negative.” This attitude, which is ludicrous on its face, becomes less confusing once you remember that a significant portion of the United States doesn’t live in a reality-based [...]