Category Archives: Business

In Praise Of Entrepreneurs

Over at Pajamas Media, I have some thoughts this morning on Steve Jobs and people who really change the world.

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The business of Apple was business, not politics.

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Did Jobs die from quackery?

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Here’s the WSJ obit.

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More thoughts from Lileks.

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Michael Malone remembers Steve Jobs.

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How his philosophy changed technology.

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The Onion says we’re doomed.

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Rob Long: The right kind of tyrant.

A Letter To The Marching Morons

From David Freddoso:

Those people you left stuck in traffic have a hard time paying their bills and rents and health insurance and mortgages. They worry about things like finding decent schools for their children to attend and making sure they don’t get fired at work, and fixing leaking roofs and chimneys.

You know what they don’t worry about, ever? Smashing patriarchy and capitalism.

So when your organizers go on television and say things like, “It’s revolution, not reform!” and they’re not joking, those words might give some of these narrow-minded people an unpleasant, October 1917 kind of feeling.

Read all.

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The pathology of capitalism, new and improved with trutherism.

Who Is More Anti-Science?

Republicans, or Democrats?

My biggest problem with Democrats is that they’re anti-economics, with devastating results over the past decades.

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Skeptical about skepticism.

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Speaking of Republicans being anti-science, I don’t agree with Herman Cain that being gay is “a choice.” Being straight was never a “choice” for me.

The Smart

…and the dumb:

The president’s reaction? “He turned to me and said, ‘Oil and gas will be important for the next few years. But we need to go on to green and alternative energy. [Energy] Secretary [Steven] Chu has assured me that within five years, we can have a battery developed that will make a car with the equivalent of 130 miles per gallon.’” Mr. Hamm holds his head in his hands and says, “Even if you believed that, why would you want to stop oil and gas development? It was pretty disappointing.”

I guess I’d be disappointed, if I had had any expectations of brilliance on his part. But I never had any reason to, other than the bien pensant telling me I should.