I thought it might be interesting to run down how I plan to vote next month. Most of the time, it’s pretty easy to decide which way to vote. I think the government, local through federal, ought to keep away from providing welfare and entertainment and stick to law enforcement and defense. The candidates in [...]
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BusinessWeek Calls Our Economy “Kapitalism”
October 19th, 2008
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The latest issue of BusinessWeek, a national periodical, is titled “The Future of Kapitalism” and features Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in a post reminiscent of Vladimir Lenin. Wikipedia suggests the technique of replacing C with K in names started with the Yippies, but I remember it as a common tactic in punk rock for arguing [...]
Don’t let this “crisis” be another excuse to give away your rights
September 19th, 2008
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Have you seen this pattern before? The government enacts new laws that subvert natural behavior for the good of society The government waits for this subversion to create a crisis The government rushes in to trade your liberties for security from the crisis We saw this pattern seven years ago. Leading up to 9/11, the [...]
On Clear Night Sky: Zend Partners with Adobe
September 19th, 2008
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Last Tuesday Andi Gutmans announced that Zend was partnering with Adobe to get PHP and Flex working better with each other. I wrote an analysis on the Clear Night Sky blog. Read the entire post on CNS.
A Demonstration of the Virtue of Persistence
September 10th, 2008
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Bob Woodward recently wrote a book, The War Within, that chronicles what was going on in the White House in the past couple years. I haven’t read it, but I read excerpts on in Robert Tracinski’s TIA Daily newsletter which made me feel proud and inspired. This will be shocking to my friends in the [...]
