Archive for May, 2010

Random update

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

I’ll start by mentioning the places I didn’t go this week: Honolulu, HI and Canton, OH (thereby connecting those two iconic American cities for, perhaps, the very first time).
Canton and Honolulu share something: they both have newspapers that are combining. Happily, I won’t be having much to do with either project for now.

I didn’t have to go to Hawaii because those folks have their shit together enough… Continue reading

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Thursday, May 20th, 2010

I just watched another Avatar ad. Wow. That looks like the worst movie since Titanic. Maybe even worse than Titanic. Wow… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Ah, Rand Paul. Thanks, dude

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

So this Rand Paul character wins the Republican Senate primary in Kentucky. For a seat left in contention thanks to the resignation of the really good baseball player and, arguably, lousy Senator Bunning.

Rand Paul is a self-identified libertarian, and has, now, exposed some of the problems I have always had with libertarians. Chiefly, the libertarian idea that the occult hand of the market will correct errors — any… Continue reading