Idiot Bureaucrats

bfwebster on March 7th, 2011

Robert Vacca wrote his work The Coming Dark Age back  in the eco-70s. His basic premise was that our technological and logistical infrastructure was becoming so complex and inter-dependent that a major failure somewhere would trigger a domino effect, causing civilization to grind to a halt. Vacca underestimated the ability of complex systems — particularly [...]

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bfwebster on January 26th, 2011

Yeah, I’m back blogging, a bit at a time. The San Diego City Council, having passed one of those lame anti-Walmart superstore ordinances, is now having to backtrack after Walmart managed to get over 50,000 petition signatures in less that three weeks to put the ordinance to an actual public vote: The ordinance approved in [...]

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bfwebster on November 17th, 2010

You must have known that our favorite Taiwanese news animators would chime in quickly. ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on November 16th, 2010

For those wondering, here’s some information on the singer’s reference to “2257″. Hat tip to Paul Chesser over at the American Spectator blog.

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bfwebster on November 15th, 2010

[Instalanche™ in progress; thanks to Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit for the link!] It’s pretty hard to read this as anything but pure vindictiveness and intimidation on the part of the Transportation Security Agency: The Transportation Security Administration has opened an investigation targeting John Tyner, 31, the Oceanside man who was ejected from the San Diego International [...]

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