Is Es Stultus
Posted on May 31, 2004 - Filed Under government | Leave a Comment
BT, a staunch Republican Yankee, writes, “Jerry Springer was selected as a delgate to the Democratic National Convention. Res Ipsa Loquitur … the whole thing speaks for itself.”
I replied, “Along with Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of the world’s 6th-largest economy, this nation is headed down the well-televised, mass-marketed joke it has long yearned to […]
Everyday, I Tell You, Everyday …
Posted on May 26, 2004 - Filed Under government | 1 Comment
From Yahoo!News:
A U.S. Appeals Court on Wednesday ruled that a Bush administration directive seeking to stop Oregon doctors from helping terminally ill patients commit suicide was unlawful and unenforceable.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision said U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft overstepped his authority when he
ordered Oregon doctors to ignore a state law that allowed […]
Current To Casinos
Posted on May 6, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, science & technology | Leave a Comment
André-Marie Ampère, a parent of electromagnetism and for whom the unit of measure of electrical current is named, also wrote a book called Considerations On The Mathematical Theory of Chance. The book proves that the more you gamble, the lower your odds of winning against the house. Someone’s got to tell those oil-industry […]
Read More..>>More Outsourcing Output
Posted on May 5, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, government, science & technology | Leave a Comment
The only risks that the US run are:
(a) conservatism/orthodoxy (freaking out and becoming increasingly xenophobic - happened to the Hindus during Muslim invasions of India and look what that did to Hindu feminism - went down the toilet),
(b) laziness - too many consumers reliant on the creativity of too few producers, and
(c) […]





