Obama Attorney General choice Eric Holder calls for “reasonable regulations on how people interact on the internet”.

I’d wouldn’t define “reasonable” as anything more than “none” in that context, but I have the feeling that he feels differently.

[Read more →]

Imagine that tiny invisible flying nanobots equipped with cameras exist and are cheaply available to anyone. Privacy is effectively a thing of the past, since anyone can be spied on at any time without their knowledge.
Will we modify our private behavior to not do anything we wouldn’t want other people to know about, or […]

[Read more →]

There’s an interesting brouhaha going on in the California Theater community. The Sacremento Bee reports:
Gay and lesbian artists called Monday for an artistic and audience boycott of California Musical Theatre after learning that its artistic director donated $1,000 to a campaign that backed banning gay marriage in California.
Scott Eckern was not available for comment […]

[Read more →]

The terrific PJ O’Rourke has a great article in the Weekly Standard entitled We Blew It. It’s complete genius and I urge you to read the entire thing.
My favorite bit:
What will destroy our country and us is not the financial crisis but the fact that liberals think the free market is some kind of […]

[Read more →]

Is it a journalist’s job to make a given Presidency work? Is it a journalist’s job to “help the country”? I had thought the job was to relate the facts and inform people so they can make up their own minds, but apparently Chris Matthews disagrees.

[Read more →]

As everybody probably knows, Michael Crichton died the other day. I thought I would take the opportunity to link to a great speech he gave at CalTech in 2003 entitled Do Aliens Cause Global Warming?
My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials […]

[Read more →]

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

[Read more →]

It’s over, and Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States of America.
I congratulate him and his supporters, and I’m glad we have elected the first black President, even if I think he’s a socialist.
He’s OUR President. Not just you who voted for him and support him, but […]

[Read more →]

From a friend (who shall remain nameless but did vote for Obama):
- Idiot white guy comes along when times are good…
- Idiot white guy ruins everything….
- Idiot black guy is hired to fix things - promising change…
- Idiot black guy makes change after change after change….
- Idiot black guy makes things worse…
- 4 years later […]

[Read more →]

It’s finally here. The big day.
I voted this morning for Bob Barr, AKA “None of the Above, With a Mustache”. Living in a solidly blue state, I have the freedom of voting my conscience, because McCain has no chance in New Jersey, and if he did he would be winning everywhere else and […]

[Read more →]