At least no one I’ve seen. But the U.S. Government should be damn thankful this happened the way that it did. We dodged a major bullet that could have been way, way, more damaging than this debacle has been. How could this have possibly been worse, you ask? Simple. What Read more…
So Charlie Stross has posted a lament about the dearth of Utopias in SF of late. If you follow my blog, you may already have a good idea of what I think about that. There are several issues I have with his post. (Probably all having to do with us Read more…
It doesn’t do a lot else though. Over time the revenue increase on hiking taxes is pretty much a wash with the downward pressure on revenue caused by the drag taxation causes on the economy. Here is a demonstration in handy chart form: The last two decades are particularly notable, Read more…
1. You can be a moderate, and be to the left of Barack Obama. 2. Calling for the death of novelists? No problem. 3. CBS couldn’t estimate the attendance at a three-year old’s birthday party. 4. Comedy Central does message control and suppression of the press better than some third-world Read more…
NPR was wrong because they did not afford him freedom of speech. They did it in a way that was unfair. The context was he was arguing with Bill O’Reilly, saying why he should not be so virulently anti-Muslim … It reminded me so much of the case with Shirley Sherrod. Read more…
I read a lot of political posts, some more obnoxious than others. To let my liberal readers know, if you are trying to actually convince someone of something (rather than rage or whine or perform public bonding with their chosen clique of like minded internet denizens) you should not use Read more…
So I’ve been reading a lot of stories like this one that has me a little worried. We have 25% of the world’s population under an authoritarian regime that’s just on the edge of holding things together. When you’re spending just as much on internal security as you are on Read more…
So Scalzi opines on Atlas Shrugged (which I’m currently reading for the first time, via a 64-hour long audiobook. If you’re curious, the book that filled the Atlas Shrugged slot in my teenage-reader political awakening was the Illuminatus! Trilogy. Yeah, I’m weird that way.) and while I don’t have a Read more…
Make that a boot stomping on a human face — forever. I actually had someone try and pull that on me in a debate, more or less in the sense “BUSH HAZ WORST RECORD ON CIVIL LIBERTIEZ EVAR.” This was true, when he was in office. But Obama has doubled Read more…
Elizabeth Moon upset a lot of people over the week and a half by posting about citizenship, the 9/11 attacks, and the proposed Cordoba cultural center a few blocks from Ground Zero. As she said about building the cultural center, she “should have been able to predict that this would Read more…