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The Republicans are clueless, the Democrats are evil, and we must be drunk.

So my old party, the Republicans, are worried that they might be out of power for a long time. Uh, ok. Maybe you should have been thinking about this for the last 10 years as you squandered one of the greatest political opportunities in history. It’s too late for you, Republicans. You died a long [...]

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Yes we can….commit financial suicide.

Looks like Congress passed the huge, huge spending bill. It’s a clearly defined, economically sound strategy that is targeted like a laser beam on the specific problems in our economy. Um…yeah. It’s really just a huge ball o’ money. Pork barrel spending, to be cliche about it. I mean seriously. It’s just a huge chunk [...]

Filed under:economy, politics

Lack of Discipline is a Federal resource.

There is one thing the Federal Government has a huge supply of. That is the lack of discipline. You would think that lack of discipline indicates something you do not have. But not in this case. Lack of discipline is the only thing keeping the charade of our economy going, so it is “something”. The [...]

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Good luck buying a car in Cali

Obama is letting states decide what auto emissions should be. Which sounds brilliant. Let’s get off this foreign oil! You car companies better get off your tails and do something about this! Hello? Car companies? You ok? Oh yeah, many of the car companies are dead, zombified wrecks. Dead companies don’t tend to innovate. Plus, [...]

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The death of Circuit City

So Circuit City is no more. If you owned stock in CC, it’s now worth nothing…as the fire sale of assets will leave no remaining value. Circuit City fell victim to one of the primary fallacies in dealing with technology. They were, after all, a company primarily involved in tech even if it was selling [...]

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My daughter memorized the Countrywide commercial

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DRM-less iTunes

At long last Apple has finally dropped DRM in it’s iTunes music store. This is huge, although it was barely noticed because Steve Jobs wasn’t at Macworld. Anyway, DRM is a silly strategy that only hurts the people who buy music. It doesn’t stop piracy. It breaks. It can make all your songs not work [...]

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High Tech Chicken

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Roman fight in Germany

This is cool. Turns out the opening scene of Gladiator might be accurate.

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