David Brooks: Nothing To See Here
Sean MurphyI find Brooks to be a shallow, self-aggrandizing bootlicker of the first order. Clueless as an Ayn Rand reader, culpable as a clergyman, and haughty as a wealthy heir. HERE he…
Selling The Stories Of Our Lives: Technology and Privacy (Part Three)
THE PRICE OF ONLINE PAYMENT The final frontier, at least for now, where online interaction and privacy may or may not find practical synergy is mobile payment. Predictably, the convenience…
Selling The Stories Of Our Lives: Technology and Privacy (Part Two)
PRIVACY VERSUS PROFIT: THE NEXT BIG DEBATE Not many people would oppose the proposition that consumers enjoy convenience and appreciate value. As the Internet has expanded and advanced, free content…
Selling The Stories Of Our Lives: Technology and Privacy (Part One)
*Recent events reminded me that the issues of privacy are not recent. Indeed, the notion of "other people" knowing what you are doing at all times was very much a…
How Caddyshack Explains Everything (Revisited)
7/22/2009: Listening to the disingenuous whining of the G.O.P. regarding the outrageous and irresponsible debt Obama is creating provokes various reactions. Here are ten of them. (But first, the image…
The Iron Maiden
As far as I'm concerned, this was Margaret Thatcher's finest work. (And yes that is both a political and artistic statement.) The ever-reliable Charles Pierce puts things succinctly in perspective,…
On April Fools’ Day: Celebrating America’s Irreplaceable Court Jester
Take this joke, please. Or this one: Funny, for sure. But cut with way more than a sliver of dead seriousness. This is what Bill Hicks brought to the planet,…
Iraq: Ten Years Gone
What's ten years and a couple trillion dollars between friends, huh? And I mean, it's not like anyone could have seen this coming, right? Right. Anyone who's read this blog knows…
Wishing For Eternity So Dick Cheney Could Spend It In Disgrace
I'm not sure what it says about me, but I've gone on record declaring, at times, a fervent wish that there was a God. Because if there was a God,…
Bob Woodward, Badly Wired
Fascinating piece. I remember reading Wired at the time and hating it, not because it was so ceaselessly negative but that, even as a young teenager, I understood nuance and…