Category Archives: Social Commentary
Columbus Day
I meant to post on this yesterday, whichToday is the real day, not the fake one the government made up to create a three-day weekend. Here’s an oldie but a goody on how we may be celebrating the wrong Italian.
The Drug War
Forty years of failure.
Continuing To Be President
Why does Obama want to do it?
The Media And Obama
They loved him to death. More on the divorce theme.
The Libertarian Democrat And Fifties Radios
Some thoughts from Lileks.
I was struck by the prices of those old AM radios. I hadn’t realized how expensive they were back then. In today’s dollars, you’d be paying two or three hundred for an AM radio, though it would probably have much better sound quality than a modern one. The tubes have their own audio quality that remains hard (and expensive) to replicate with solid state. Of course, they were also built to last, and unlike a modern device, repairable.
Wake Up, America
Wayne Allyn Root
…says it will be a landslide for Romney.
I’ve long though that the most likely outcome. It’s just not 2008 any more.
Fun With Statistics
There’s a 99% chance that whoever filed this brief is not licensed to practice law.
Heh.
Common Phrases
…from obsolete technologies. I liked the long list of phrases that were originally nautical from the British Navy.