A failing memory?

October 6, 2004

Evidence suggests that John Edwards is fit to be a heartbeat away from being President but calls into question Cheney's fitness. How is it he can't remember standing right next to John Edwards while being Vice President? It does help to explain why we're at war with a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.

A broken record?

October 5, 2004

A month after serving as standard-bearer for the Republican's "contract with Nevada" assemblyman Chad Christensen is once again being asked to answer why he again has violated Nevada's campaign finance laws. The 7-item contract with Nevada suggests a new and different direction. The actions of it's supporters suggest they're up to the same old tricks.

Doubletalk

Think, but not too much. Think different, but not too different

Dave Winer, in his DaveNet site, asked last week about where the thinkers are. In part he suggests this conventional wisdom (Earth's Website):

Thinking isn't important, feeling is what's important.
Logic isn't important, intuition is what's important.
Science isn't important, perception is what's important.
This is pure bullshit!

As I often do, I found myself agreeing with his ideas. Why then, if somebody is really interested in thinking would they post a link to the story I'm about to talk about. It baffles me. Dave linked to Fred Langa's opinion piece on Apple's Heavy Hand Strikes Again as if it were news worthy. The irony of the whole thing is that both a reference to wanting people to think about technology and the link to Langa's piece were posted on the same day and appear a few lines away from one another.

In fact it is little more than uninformed mac-bashing. Why are windows advocates so scared of the little iMac? Maybe it's just too much to handle having a highly useable, highly customizable computer that most second graders can set up.

Point by point

Let's look at Langa's points (or misinformation) one at a time.

And now, Apple appears to have planted another anti-clone land mine in the new Mac OS 8.5, which mostly plays cosmetic catch-up to Windows, adding features that have been in the Microsoft OS for years.

Another Bush flip-flop?

September 30, 2004

With documents revealed today where George Bush said he had "inadequate time" to serve in the national guard. How will he wiggle around his past claims that he completed his service.

Trade Secrets Radio: Former President Bush II

September 25, 2004

Trade Secrets has a photo of Bush II contemplating his upcoming retirement. As a former president the Bushes will have over $250,000 a year in lifetime retirement. While many of the employees of the the companies like Enron who helped crown Bush II will have $0.

Do you understand?

September 19, 2004

Here's one for Dave Winer's list of fact checkers. The Associated Press has a section on the Electoral College in which it asks "Do you really understand how our electoral system works?"

The interactive system then proceeds to tell how the system works. Problem is it is wrong. The explanation claims the Constitution of the United States says that electors are selected by a popular vote in each of the states. Bzzzt! It doesn't. The Constitution hasn't changed (on this issue) for nearly a century and a half. Perhaps it would be a good time for a new fact checker. (There are probably some available from CBS who should be looking for work).

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