Monday, October 10, 2011

DOWN WITH EVIL CORPORATIONS!

CALIFORNIA BANS: Unloaded guns and teenage tanning sessions -- but not things that can do real harm.
HEH. Krugman schools his army (follow his link).
OBAMA COALITION uncoalescing?
ARE DEMOCRATS INSANE? Democrats Offer Solidarity to Wall Street Protestors.


On the plus side, there will be plenty of employment for SEIU, Teamsters, and other unionists to pick up the trash.
YOU ONLY THOUGHT YOU HAD PRIVACY: Another Major U.S. Medical Data Record Breach -- 4.9 Million Patients Affected. Which is why I will continue to oppose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_health_recordElectronic Health Records until they are encrypted and locked with a password available only to me.
WHY MIGHTY OAKS from little acorns grow: the tree rats bury their stash. If each squirrel were to eat 100 acorns each, I'd still need 1,000 squirrels to clean up the yard.
PAUL JACOB on Occupied America: I do want to work with every willing American to end the occupation of our constitutional, democratic republic by a political class filled with mucky-mucks from Wall Street, and other boulevards, who wallow in bailouts and special privileges bestowed upon them by the power-obsessed politicians on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue."

I can applaud the thought, but I doubt that "Occupy Wall Street" is the place to start.

The one thing that seems to be common to all 'do good' organizations, government and non-government alike, is that politics trumps practicality every time.
HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED: The top 10 programming languages. I used to be a very good programmer, and now I don't recognize a single one.
"THE POLITICAL RACE CARD ought to be ... an ugly memory -- something no decent voter, activist, or candidate would dream of brandishing." Don't bet on it.
THE WISDOM OF A $12 HAIRCUT: it's all about caffeine and sugar.