Maybe There’s Something Wrong with the Audience.
And we wonder why Democrats don’t get elected. Pelosi’s big reaction to the lying, stealing, unethical, immoral, illogical, repressive, oppressive, regressive Republican administration and Congress is an “eleventh priveleged resolution” against their lunacy and idiocy. So let’s unpack this. The purpose of my privileged resolutions is to put the Republican Congress, over and over again, [...]
Financial Applications
I can’t seem to find one that’s easy to use. Every single one suffers from feature creep and this need to import data like Quicken. Well, Quicken’s not so hot. The integration with financial institutions (like my credit union) is touch-and-go. And there’s so many freaking buttons and they’re all so hard to use. Honestly, [...]
Live Green, Go Yellow, Be Lazy
GM’s trying to jump on the environmentalist bandwagon with their Live Green, Go Yellow campaign. The way I see it, they’re doing some minor engineering and hoping to get as much props as Toyota or Honda for releasing hybrid vehicles. But, really, how much work does it take to get a car that runs off [...]
Air America Radio Broke my Heart
Air America is going to start charging for their podcasts and streams. Considering I have to constantly justify the $10/month I pay for hosting and the $20/month I pay for Safari to Hillary, I’m probably not going to be able to justify the $60/year to podcast the Majority Report. I’ve already emailed them about my [...]
Alton Brown Broke my Heart
AB‘s got a few videos on GE‘s site about their fancy-pants, super-expensive appliances. Having watched the one on the Trivection ovens, I don’t think I can stomach any more. He broke my heart about 3/4 of the way through. He said he liked electric stoves. Not just any electric stoves, but those stupid glass top [...]
My Master Speaks
Don’t believe everything you read. Joss Whedon hasn’t killed Firefly, DVD sales are through the roof (Serenity is #1 on Amazon, and Firefly is at #6), and the fan base has never been more vibrant. All Joss was talking about in this article is that he had the chance to tell the story he wanted [...]
BBC NEWS | Technology | UN debut for $100 laptop for poor
BBC NEWS | Technology | UN debut for $100 laptop for poor “Every single problem you can think of, poverty, peace, the environment, is solved with education or including education,” said Professor Negroponte. I call bullshit on that statement. The problem in the poorest of the poor countries isn’t lack of education; it’s lack of [...]
Organized Labor and Immigration
On Sept. 15, Thom Hartmann raised a good point about the link between the decline in union membership and immigration. As he filled in for Janeane and Sam, he said something like this: When you had most of the US labor force unionized, if a boss hired an illegal worker that he could pay less [...]
Bush Administration Pays Groups for Favorable Op-Eds
via the DCCC Apparently, the Department of Education has been paying off educational advocacy groups to produce opinion pieces and ads that promote Bush policies. According to Rep. George Miller (D-CA), senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee: The Department allowed this egregious use of taxpayer dollars to continue with such consistency [...]
We should be scared
Hurricane Katrina has shown everyone, allies and enemies, that we are unable to respond to a disaster even if we’re given several days notice. Imagine if, instead of having 80% of the city evacuated, imagine if a terrorist had detonated a truck filled with explosives next to one of the levees? Imagine if we had [...]