[Thanks for all the incoming links, especially from Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit. And for those of you who have wondered, here’s why Ray Bradbury wasn’t included in the list below.] Arthur C. Clarke died today, at age 90. He was the last of the Big Three — Isaac Asimov, Clarke, and Robert Heinlein — to […]
In a recent private discussion thread, one of the participants cited our current problems as a shortage of liquidity (available cash) brought on by failed sub-prime mortgage lending. We are not a liquidity crisis, but a debt crisis. The banks have some idea of how bad the problem really is, but most people don’t know […]
It’s not often that you see a blog hit it out of the park right form the start, but this one has: Stuff White People Like. It’s one of the few blogs where I went back through the archives and read every single entry. Most entries make me laugh; some make me wince (at myself). […]
Last night was another Tuesday primary swarm. Once again it was a parade of newsies working hard to create a story. Some of the specifics: John McCain completed his bid to be the Republican nominee for 2008. Congratulations to him. It is my honest opinion that he was the weakest contender for the GOP slot, […]
Friday afternoon has come in California. It’s a bright sunny day with temperatures near 70 across most of San Diego county, with the birds on my front porch singing and enjoying a full load of seed in the feeder. The cats are on my office futon couch in rapt attention as the birds queue up […]
I was amazed to find this bit of data over at Time’s blog: Here are the numbers just for the 19 states where both parties had elections yesterday Obama/Clinton voters: 14,460,149 McCain/Romney/Huckabee voters: 8,367,694 Or, 73% more Democratic voters than Republican voters. A lot of this is huge Democratic numbers in New York and California. […]
I have been highly critical of the manner in which the US Presidential primaries are being conducted for the 2008 elections. In part because I believe, especially this time, that they are organized in such a way (and covered by the media in such a way) that the resulting nominee might be un-electable. It’s quite […]
Some months back I raised a cautionary flag over what I considered to be the excessively high valuation of VMWare (“Uh oh…Tech Crash 2.0?”). I got caught in the original (though largely unacknowledged) tech crash in the 1988-1991 time frame and so was able to see (and avoid) what is largely (if incorrectly) termed the […]
“But what about Bradbury?”
I’ve gotten some feedback on my memorial for Arthur C. Clarke, both direct and indirect, that the “Big Three” should include Ray Bradbury, either by expanding it to the “Big Four” or by dropping one of the “Big Three” (usually Heinlein). My response is that Bradbury doesn’t belong in that group for two critical reasons. […]
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