March 6, 2012
The Devil You Know
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August 25, 2011
My Thoughts on Steve Jobs
This post was originally published at Cult of Mac
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December 2, 2010
WikiLeaks Proves DC Rancor is a Sham
Jayzus H. Christ, I go away from the Internet for a while and all hell breaks loose.
Having shimmied back down the rabbit hole in the last couple of days, my eyes are now bleeding from reading all the sturm und drang over supposed terrorist/sex criminal Julian Assange and his pariah website, WikiLeaks.
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November 9, 2010
This is How the Terrorists Won, Pt.2
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October 7, 2010
Happy Anniversary
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May 6, 2008
How Low Can You Go?
This post was originally published at OpenSalon, a beta-test group blogging project of Salon Media.
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February 14, 2008
Who Loves Ya, Baby?
The true origins of celebrating the notion of romantic love on February 14 are not well documented, though the exchange of elaborate, handmade gifts between paramours was well established by the middle of the eighteenth century in England, and began to really take off in the United States once Esther Howland (herself now considered something of a saint by the American Greeting Card Association) began selling mass-produced Valentine’s cards in the 1840s.
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January 22, 2008
A Wing And A Prayer
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke responded to worldwide stock market declines of 5% Monday with a 75 basis-point cut in the Fed Funds rate Tuesday morning. The Fed’s largest single rate cut in 23 years was more notable for its coming just a week before the regularly scheduled meeting of the Fed Board of Governors on January 30.
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November 8, 2007
Update on Freedom’s March
It’s been called “the defining struggle of our time” by the rootin’-tootin’est vice president this country has ever had. Faced with criticism over his policies, or doubt concerning progress in the so-called War on Terror, our least-popular president ever invariably fends off nattering nabobs of negativism with one of his own favorite mantras: “freedom’s on the march.”
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September 10, 2007
Study Shows 6 Is 9, After All
On January 15, 1968 the Jimi Hendrix Experience released its second album, Axis / Bold As Love, containing what would become the genre-defining psychedelic rock song, “If 6 Was 9.”
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