Month: September 2012

Charles Pierce has a bit to say concerning the upcoming debates: What do people expect from Romney at this point? He did the fan dance for his lunatic base, and it got him the nomination, but it boxed him in on so many issues that it made running in the general election an almost impossible… Continue reading Pierce on Supposed “Do or Die” Debate

I was trying to install Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012. I could actually install Visual Studio Professional 2012 with my license. But Visual Studio Professional 2012 is not supported in my arcane, ancient, outdated operating system. You see, this dinosaur still lumbers on on the mummified limbs of Windows Vista. An infinitesimally small number of… Continue reading “Business Model” Means “Method of Screwing Customers”

If you think any of the following are true, you should be under professional supervision: Joe McCarthy was not a power hungry drunk with sociopathic tendcencies. Communism has been a serious threat to this country in the past couple of decades. Barack Obama’s birth announcement was falsely entered into the Honolulu Advertiser a couple of… Continue reading Why Do We Fail to Call Idiots Idiots?

Today, the shuttle Endeavor crossed over Southern New Mexico one last time. It flew from Biggs Army Airfield over White Sands Missile Range and west from the NASA facility on WSMR’s western boundary towards its final resting place at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, CA. I watched the mated behemoths of the Boeing… Continue reading Last Flight of a Space Shuttle

Republican politicos count on working class and middle class (for that matter, the lower tiers of the upper class) people to vote against their own financial interest. That much is clear. What is not so clear is why the Democrats allow their opponents to play this game (perhaps it is related to the gelatin-based spinal… Continue reading What About Payroll Taxes?