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 […]
The media tends to operate on a hype/anti-hype cycle (following Shannon’s theorem that the value of information is inversely proportional to its probability). So it was refreshing to read this post over at The Jawa Report that takes the current poll swings among Republican presidential candidates — each of which has been declared ‘toast’ or […]
Well, the circus that is the Iowa Caucuses is complete, and I am thankful for that. Never before have I seen the media make a bigger fuss over a tiny handful of voters and what their whims were. To see teams of analysts and pundits attempt to draw broad conclusions over what is (apologies to […]
First off, I have to cite a wonderful new blog from the folks that bring us Gizmodo, this new critter being called io9, and it’s all about Science Fiction and things surrounding it. A fabulous read if you are wandering around the house with your iPod Touch tinkering. One of the articles up there now […]
Unqualified Reservations is a new addition to my daily blog reading, largely because of posts like this one: A better way to think of our present financial system is to compare it to Microsoft Windows. Windows is indeed complicated. It is astoundingly, brilliantly, profoundly complicated. If there is anyone in the world, even at Microsoft, […]
Just ask Jeff Jarvis: — Google is the “fastest growing company in the history of the world.” – Times of London, 1/29/06 — Google controls 65.1% of all searches in the U.S. at the end of 2007 and 86% of all searches in the UK, according to measurement company Hitwise. — Google was searched 4.4 […]
Language Log is one of my favorite blogs. It is a gathering of linguists, mostly unrepentant descriptivists, who don’t hesitate to bring to bear their full education and resources on, well, issues that only language geeks (like myself) would wonder about. Here, as a sterling example, are a pair of posts exploring the origin of […]
