Month: February 2008
Check Your Textbooks
One of the problems with government schooling is the textbooks, particularly the history texts, which tend to become little more than a combination of puff piec...
Bowdlerization
sed -E 's/(dumb|stupid)//g'
Your World. Delivered.
I had nothing to do with this Discordian activity:
Are you now, or have you ever been, a [BLANK]
Because so many people have such trouble with logic — and do not understand that though A is a member of B, all B are not A — let me point out the f...
Mandating Health Insurance Will Increase Costs
Providing a health care subsidy or mandating the purchase of health insurance will artificially increase demand which, assuming supply remains constant, will ra...
Counterdisintermediation, in an attempt to remain relevant
A famous character once opined, Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. The executives at ABC are determined to prove that axiom by launching a video-...
Jackass of the Week
It might be interesting for a while to have a “jackass of the week” feature, but there are only 52 weeks in the year, and many, many more jackasses ...
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Lowering My Health Care Costs
If Mrs. Clinton, or Messrs. McCain or Obama would like to lower health care costs, then perhaps they could encourage Congress to start by requiring that all ins...
What My Amazon Wishlist Wants
I have 180 or so items on my wishlist at Amazon. There are a couple of things that would come in handy. The obvious one would be the ability to search through i...
Telephonus Interruptus
Perhaps I have a one-track mind recently, but on viewing this public service announcement [via Movie Marketing Madness, via Rick], I understood the tagline R...
Wanted: Party Loyalty
By way of Rick Klau‘s shared items in Google Reader, I learned that They — and by “They” I mean Patrick Ruffini — have it in for R...
Against the Dragnet
Dear Senator Clinton: You should be ashamed. Dear Senator Schumer: Thank you for voting to remove the telecom immunity provision from the contemptible bill rece...
On the Superdelegate Question
Taegan Goddard quotes Todd Purdum, It would mean that Clinton’s only hope of winning would be some kind of backroom deal…. Might I suggest that perhaps th...
Snow Days at Google
Avinash Kaushik posted a list of ten things to envy about working at Google, which are, oddly enough, similar to the reasons Joel Spolsky says I would love bein...
Why I don’t like John McCain, either
John McCain once again demonstrated why he’s not my choice for President. For details see EFF v. AT&T.