Updated Iran missile launch photo!
Here’s the real thing: Hat tip to Kevin Williamson at the National Review Media blog. ..bruce w..
Author Archive: bfwebster
Webster is Principal and Founder at Bruce F. Webster & Associates, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University. He works with organizations to help them with troubled or failed information technology (IT) projects. He has also worked in several dozen legal cases as a consultant and as a testifying expert, both in the United States and Japan. He can be reached at bwebster@bfwa.com, or you can follow him on Twitter as @bfwebster.
Video o’ the day
Featuring some of the worst lip syncing and most embarrassing dance moves ever seen, even in a 60s music video: Still, I must confess I’ve always liked the song. Hat tip to the lovely and erudite Ann Althouse. ..bruce w..
How many times have you read this?
Just fill in the blanks: An ineffectual international organisation yesterday issued a stark warning about a situation it has absolutely no power to change, the latest in a series of self-serving interventions by toothless intergovernmental bodies. “We are seriously concerned about this most serious outbreak of seriousness,” said the head of the institution, either a […]
Godspeed, Jon, and come home soon
Our son Jon left Camp Pendleton on July 3rd to start his long journey to Iraq. He went up to March AFB; from there, he flew to Maine, then to Germany, and then to Kuwait, where it was probably still July 4th when he arrived. I thought of him while sitting with Sandra on our […]
“WALL-E”: a brief review (w/spoilers)
You could probably devise an interesting psychological profiling test around a person’s favorite Pixar film; mine happens to be “The Incredibles”, so make of that what you will. What is telling is that Pixar has yet to make either a bad or an unsuccessful movie, a pretty stunning achievement given the river of diluted sludge […]
Video o’ the day
More brilliance from the Onion: Entertainment Scientists Warn Miley Cyrus Will Be Depleted by 2013 “Humanity will be reduced to roving bands of barbarians….” Heh. ..bruce w..
The Heller decision and its aftermath
Frank J. and Harvey (at IMAO) have all the breaking news. First the Supreme Court decision itself: JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. We consider whether a District of Columbia prohibition on the possession of usable handguns in the home violates the Second Amendment to the Constitution. We turn first to the meaning […]
Video o’ the day
Joe Cocker’s cover of “A Little Help from My Friends” at Woodstock in 1969 is legendary for both his spasmotic gyrations and the incomprehensibility of his lyrics. It’s just remarkable fun to watch and listen to (and now you’ll know where John Belushi got those moves from). But now — and I have to assumue […]
Speaking of election idiocy…
…here’s the latest on the Democratic National Convention coming here to Denver in six weeks or so: The host committee for the Democratic National Convention wanted 15,000 fanny packs for volunteers. But they had to be made of organic cotton. By unionized labor. In the USA. Official merchandiser Bob DeMasse scoured the country. His weary […]
A modest proposal for our Presidential primary system
As I watch the race-to-the-bottom train wreck that our national Presidential election is turning into — with four more months and two national conventions still ahead of us — I find myself asking, as do so many others, “Just how did we end up here?” On the one hand, I’m grateful — as a political […]
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