500 Words or Fewer
Perhaps there need to be word limits on legislation. the legislation was a 262-page amendment to a far larger appropriations bill. What Created This MonsterR...
Author: Will Cox
How Did People Watch TV Before the Internet?
We’re watching NCIS, and I can’t help but wondering what their jurisdiction is. If the show is in any way representative, they investigate pretty mu...
Bible Verse of the Day: Acts 16:37
“They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now throw us out secretly? No! Let them co...
The Castle
At the age of 19, Murat Kurnaz vanished into America’s shadow prison system in the war on terror. He was from Germany, traveling in Pakistan, and was pick...
Bible Verse of the Day: Acts 22:25
“Is it lawful for you to flog a man who is a Roman citizen and uncondemned?â€
Here We Go Again
School budget season has started. This year’s spending increase: 7.2%.
There’s Always Hope
I hope that Barack Obama will win the Democratic Party’s nomination. And I hope this, despite some evidence to the contrary, because I hope that he will n...
Apple Makes Useless Design Decisions Too
Which jackass at Apple thought that it was more important for iCal to leave 50% of a day as white space and display ellipses than to display the entries that I&...
Great Speech, but…
Why, in a speech about a more perfect union, does Barack Obama mention Israel? … a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in ...
Kick the Ankle Biters
One Howard Kurtz appears to be employed by The Washington Post to read the web and regurgitate it with perspective. Must be nice. A while back, in evaluating wh...
Check Your Textbooks
One of the problems with government schooling is the textbooks, particularly the history texts, which tend to become little more than a combination of puff piec...
Bowdlerization
sed -E 's/(dumb|stupid)//g'
Your World. Delivered.
I had nothing to do with this Discordian activity:
Are you now, or have you ever been, a [BLANK]
Because so many people have such trouble with logic — and do not understand that though A is a member of B, all B are not A — let me point out the f...
Mandating Health Insurance Will Increase Costs
Providing a health care subsidy or mandating the purchase of health insurance will artificially increase demand which, assuming supply remains constant, will ra...
Counterdisintermediation, in an attempt to remain relevant
A famous character once opined, Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. The executives at ABC are determined to prove that axiom by launching a video-...
Jackass of the Week
It might be interesting for a while to have a “jackass of the week” feature, but there are only 52 weeks in the year, and many, many more jackasses ...