Not that I ever did any ditch surfing, but that standing water in the roadside ditches…. I lived in Houston (actually, Clear Lake and League City) for two years and saw ditches like this filled with water like this a lot. Hat tip (again) to Dave Barry. ..bruce w..
Megan McArdle, my favorite blogging economist, has a lengthy, thoughtful analysis of what the retirement of the Baby Boomer generation may mean to America: As the Boomers age, they will consume fewer of the things that we produce efficiently, and more of the things that we provide relatively inefficiently. Productivity is notoriously difficult to project, […]
It’s even stranger than you think. Hat tip to Dave Barry. ..bruce w..
The Onion, not content with mere print/web journalism, has moved into video as well: In The Know: Are We Giving The Robots That Run Our Society Too Much Power? ..bruce w..
As noted in Works in Progress, I’m writing a book called Surviving Complexity, which deals with the challenges of IT development and deployment. Over at my personal website, I’ve posted material adapted from the first chapter of that book: In my forthcoming book, Surviving Complexity, the very first chapter is called “The Wetware Crisis”. This […]
Lost in the Election and Brittany din, the cold wind of recession is starting to blow hard enough that even the mainstream media types are starting to see smell it. Worse yet the deflation triggers are continuing to fire faster and harder since Christmas. Some of the facts: The Dollar continues to weaken against other […]
For reasons that I don’t understand, the polito-tards decided to shove the primaries as early as they could in 2008. This is going to cause 2 really unfortunate things: 1) The Primaries will turn into “American Idol – The President” – A larger portion of Americans care less about the important issues we all face. […]
…historians and social anthropologists will still be mining “The Simpsons” for insights into 20th/21st Century civilization. But apparently not via YouTube — the clip I linked to disappeared (“We’re sorry, this video is no longer available”) just a few hours after I posted it. Ah, well. Anyway, hat tip to Eschaton while it lasted. ..bruce […]
You’ve heard about the Clinton-crying-in-New-Hampshire incident — now see the footage: Hat tip to PowerLine. UPDATE! The clip below is frankly more entertaining (in any sense) and better-acted than the one above — pretty sad (but not surprising) when Andrew Lloyd Weber gets upstaged by “some random chick on YouTube”: Hat tip to The Jawa […]
Broken Primaries – Suggested Alternatives
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 […]
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