As Mark Twain once rudely noted: “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Regardless of your political or sexual orientation it’s hard to disagree. The current Congress is the largest collection of brain-dead fuckwits since the previous Congress and no doubt the next … Continue reading Let’s Hang Congress
2012 Business Opportunity
Are you an unscrupulous deranged crank with the track record of a government budget forecaster? Do you have no shame and assume everyone around you is an inbred moron? Can you say one thing one day and the opposite the next and see no contradiction? Do you consider “evidence” to be shit that you make … Continue reading 2012 Business Opportunity
Hard Ass Skeptic Rules
I am a hard ass skeptic. A hard ass skeptic is somebody that holds: Ghosts do not existGods do not existUFOs are not alien spaceshipsThere are no YetisThere are no psychics9/11 was not an inside jobLife after death is nonsenseReincarnation is more nonsenseSomebody called Christ did not rise from the graveMohammed did not ascend to … Continue reading Hard Ass Skeptic Rules
Counting Gods
How many fingers do you need to count gods? If you are like most people you simply assume the set of gods is enumerable and then you start fighting over which value in the set of positive integers $latex \mathbb{Z}_{\geq0}&bg=cfcdcd$ or $latex {0, 1, 2, 3, \ldots, }&bg=cfcdcd$ is correct. This process is elegantly explained by … Continue reading Counting Gods
F# Sirens are Seducing
For the last few days I have been playing around with an early release of F#. F# looks like it might be a .Net language that I can stand! The alpha-geeks at Microsoft Research have convinced their corporate masters that the world needs a functional programming language that can be compiled and executed as efficiently … Continue reading F# Sirens are Seducing
Nobel Peace Prize Idol
My doubts about the Nobel Peace Prize started when Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho won during the Vietnam war. In my naive youth I thought a peace prize might have something to do with peace! I was so cute and unsophisticated in those days. As I aged I developed a robust sense of irony … Continue reading Nobel Peace Prize Idol
Google Earth Image Touring
In a scientific poll of one, (I sampled myself), Google Earth was voted the greatest free program on Earth. The brilliant developers at Google have managed to turn the most unlikely subject, geography, into a video game. And what a game it is! Google Earth doesn’t troll around in an adolescent make believe world. Google … Continue reading Google Earth Image Touring
My Olympic Spirit
The US tax payer dodged a bullet yesterday (October 2, 2009). The IOC, that cabal of corrupt whores, awarded the Olympics to Rio instead of Chicago. I've seen Rio, it's a beautiful city, and I pity the poor people there that will soon be paying out the wazoo for the dubious honor of enduring another … Continue reading My Olympic Spirit
Lens Lust
I suffer from a common and debilitating condition commonly referred to as NEM: Not Enough Money! NEM imposes all sorts of conditions and hardships on its victims. In my case NEM limits my lens lust. Without NEM I would have warehouses full of the finest cameras and lenses but as a lowly NEMite I am … Continue reading Lens Lust
Laws or Suggestions
Henry Waxman The other day while torturing myself with CNN I heard Henry Waxman, that living argument for congressional term limits, tell us that the new, all singing and dancing, US health care bill would not fund abortions or pick up the tab for illegal immigrants. Maybe Henry is telling the truth, hey it could … Continue reading Laws or Suggestions
Analyze the Data not the Drivel 