The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Healing Butt-Hurt: Theory and Practice

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION Today Mrs. Other McCain got the news that we had been turned down on a rental application for what we had hoped would be our new home, which is rather a bitter pill, considering that we now have less than five days to find a new home. Selah. It has been five weeks […]

Chicken Isn’t Sufficiently Plucked Already (CISPA)

by Smitty Slashdot links RT, saying that after all the SOPA/PIPA kerfuffle, the Really Smart Folks in Congress have another variation on the theme: H.R. 3523, a piece of legislation dubbed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (or CISPA for short), has been created under the guise of being a necessary implement in America’s […]

Nostalgia Is Not a Business Strategy

The introduction: John R. MacArthur is publisher of Harper’s Magazine and a monthly contributor to The Providence Journal, among other publications. This essay is one of this year’s Delacorte Lectures at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Oh, boy. You know this one’s gonna be a hoot: Long before I took myself off Facebook, I doubted […]

Software Enhanced Politics: Perl Flip-Flop

by Smitty Coding is actually fun, not that I have time to do much anymore, because you can work on small problems and actually solve them. In politics, you talk about solving problems as though a closed-form solution was somehow obtainable. In the blog world, you can compare this site to a retail shopping trip […]

RSS Subscription Note

by Smitty In an effort to defray some of the hosting cost, I finally go around to an AdSense account, and put ads into the RSS feed. This seems to have blown away the 250 or so die hard readers of this blog. Should have expected such. At any rate, sign up for our RSS […]

#OccupyFederalCommunications Fail

by Smitty Slashdot reports: About 200 customers of the Central Maine Power Company recently noticed something odd after the utility installed smart meters in their homes: household electronics, including wireless devices, stopped working, or behaved erratically. Many Smart Meters broadcast in the 2.4GHz frequency range. Unfortunately, so do many of the consumer gadgets we take […]

Fannie, Freddy, Newt, Sitting In A Tree: But Do Not Say ‘Newt Lob-A-Bee’

by Smitty A Fox clip with Napolitano and crew, discussing Newt’s fishy assertion he did no lobbying, and moving into the mortgage question in general. As far as doing anything with the housing crisis, the answer is the States. The houses in question all exist in States. That the Federal government is involved at all […]

Sometimes The Gadgets Pay Off

by Smitty For whatever reason, the shift to a different host isn’t playing well with the blog. The details are messy, but a browser request going from http://kxm.209.mwp.accessdomain.com to a readable blog post involves an awful lot of fragile steps. And that’s when everything works correctly. When you get shenanigans like what OWS Exposed is […]

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