What Would Jesus Say?
Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 08:19:57 AM PDT
Presented for your reaction... I encountered this car in a CVS parking lot. Thanks to the amazing abilities of technologists to compress cameras into cell phones, you get to see what I saw. I was with my family (wife, and three young teens).
I Asked my kids what they saw. What do you see?
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Sam Harris: Head in the Sand Liberals?
Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 07:13:46 AM PDT
I thought I would never revive this dKos ID but Sam Harris stirred me to write.
Many of you know him as the guy who wrote "The End of Faith." Today, he publishes a new article in the LA Times titled, Head-in-the-Sand Liberals: Western civilization really is at risk from Muslim extremists.
Sam makes his point quickly:
But my correspondence with liberals has convinced me that liberalism has grown dangerously out of touch with the realities of our world -- specifically with what devout Muslims actually believe about the West, about paradise and about the ultimate ascendance of their faith.
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Koppel on NPR! Speaking Truth!
Wed Jun 14, 2006 at 04:58:34 AM PDT
I guess it was a good thing that my kids missed the bus today. I was 2 minutes out of the driveway when "Senior NPR News Correspondent" Ted Koppel joined Steve Inskeep to discuss the situation in Iraq.
At first, I did not believe what I was hearing. I wondered if this was a "fund raising" trick (My Boston affiliate is WBUR and they always want money).
It was no trick...
Now, about What Ted had to say...
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US Czech Republic World Cup Game (Spoiler inside) POLL
Mon Jun 12, 2006 at 11:07:48 AM PDT
If you don't want to know the score, don't read on.
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Fight Liar with Liar
Sat Jun 10, 2006 at 09:29:54 AM PDT
I just read the post
Yearly Kos Attacked.... In this post Nik Jam tells us about the nut cases at Fox making up stuff like
Zarqawi was caught the day their convention opens. This is -- the left is demoralized by this.
I'm confused, when did we get demoralized?
I have to wonder, do they sit in a room all day thinking up this crap? And who writes this shit?
I say,
Let's fight Liar with Liar.
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What Have I Done? NOT Armando or Zarqawi!
Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 05:44:42 PM PDT
A few weeks ago, I went to my second democratic town committee meeting. A friend nominated me and the committee voted me in. This was the first overt political act I had ever committed outside of voting.
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Quotes I live by...
Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 07:27:30 AM PDT
In 1988, I took a job managing a DEC Vax VMS Computer and supporting 180 future users. To put it another way, my new employer threw me into a computer-ignorant sea with only my wits and keyboard.
Here we had this lovely MicroVax II, "tons" of disk space, terminals on a third of the desks, and maybe ten users. It was a sad state of affairs. My mission, should I choose to accept it, get people using the computer...
The biggest barrier to use was lack of terminals. So with a bit of cash, we doubled the number of terminals. The naturally curious dove right in. The rest needed carrots and sticks.
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Should I Teach?
Mon Jun 05, 2006 at 11:17:16 AM PDT
I was employed in a smallish engineering firm. Then in a Fortune 1000 company. Next I started a consulting practice and have consulted to Fortune 50 companies. I just sold my management-training/consulting firm. I earned a chunk of cash, but not enough to retire. I am 45 years old. I have two degrees in engineering, can write software, build networks, and computers. I can design courses for and teach adults. I communicate well both on paper and orally. I write occasionally (some of you
actually read my posts :-) yet I am much more persuasive in person then on paper.
I cannot decide my next move...
Media Bias Bullshit
Fri Jun 02, 2006 at 10:52:39 AM PDT
I have probably read a dozen diaries or blog posts in the
past week where the writer mentions "media bias." (Here is one,
and another,
and another.)
The tone of most of these pieces suggests that the media should be unbiased or
that reporters should provide balance. An unbiased media is a myth. The media has
always been biased; it will always be biased.
Ok, THIS is Funny
Tue May 30, 2006 at 04:22:27 PM PDT
I don't know that this is worth a diary but the link was just sent to me - I laughed out loud (and so did my 13 year old son).
It's an animation based on the Wizard of Oz with Hillary Clinton as dorthy, and all the usual suspects...
Enjoy
Link (opens in a new window)
Yearly Kos is an Opportunity...
Sat May 27, 2006 at 09:47:16 AM PDT
... an opportunity for all of us ..."B-Arkers" to make the recommended list!
What is a "B-Arker" You
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy readers know what I mean:
B-Arker -
The useless third of the population (consisting of hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, management consultants, telephone sanitizers and the like) were packed into the B-Ark, one of three giant Ark spaceships, and told that everyone else would follow shortly in the other two. The other two thirds of the population, of course, did not follow and "led full, rich and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from unsanitary telephones.
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail
Wed May 24, 2006 at 03:13:08 PM PDT
Jared Diamond won a Pulitzer Prize for his book
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies. I read Guns a few years ago so my memory of it is fuzzy. What I do recall is this: Diamond sets out to explain why Europeans took over the world and not South Americans, Africans or any other subset of the human race.
Diamond suggests that the root cause of the Europeans success was climate and soil fertility coupled with a ready supply of plants and animals suitable for domestication.
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I Took A Stand
Sat May 20, 2006 at 07:46:32 AM PDT
Cross Posted at
A Rational Being
Thereisnospoon's Diary says we should take a stand. He (or she) is right. It is easy to be against something. But that's not the same as being for something. Being against something just means that someone else is setting the agenda and we react. We become the tail of the dog...
Limousinegate: Who are the prostitutes?
Thu May 04, 2006 at 05:12:58 AM PDT
I'm in a rush but want to alert all about the work by Ken Silverstein at Harpers Magazine regarding the Limousine company that shuttled republicans and prostitutes to various DC Hotels.
You can read Silverstein's posts here:
April 27,
May 1,
May 3
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Oxymoron Day - Your Turn
Mon May 01, 2006 at 08:10:41 AM PDT
In the spirit of
Law Day I declare today OXYMORON Day.
What is an Oxymoron? Here is how the American Heritage Dictonary defines it:
A Rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in "deafening silence" and "mornful optimist."
I think we can do better than the Bush Administration.
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Does Monster.Com Suck?
Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 01:49:54 PM PDT
Does Monster.com Suck?
I now refer to the job sites as resume and job application black holes. I think the analogy is a good one. In space, the black hole sucks up everything in its path, crushing objects like shoes on potato chips. In cyber-space, Monster and the others suck up resumes and job applications. Once swallowed, they are never heard from again.
Perhaps it is me. Perhaps I am too old, too experienced, and a lousy resume writer but I cannot seem to get a job, hell I cannot even get an interview, through the on-line job sites. These sites include Monster.com, HotJobs, Careerbuilder, Dice and others. Fortunately, I am employed and not desperate. This allows me to be choosy. But in order to be choosy, don't I have to have choices?
You can read my story, but I really want your participation in the survey below.
Carnival of the Godless
Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 07:43:56 AM PDT
From the Shamless Commerce Department at Car Talk Plaza - whoops, wrong source.
For those of you who are interested, the 38th Carnival of the Godless is up at A Rational Being
This week you'll find posts from PZ Myers (Pharyngula), Alonzo Fyfe (Atheist Ethicist), Brent Rasmussen (Unscrewing the Inscrutable - DarkSyde's regular hang-out), and a number of other worthy posts.
Enjoy,
ARB
Armando's Oversimplification of Joe [POLL]
Sun Mar 19, 2006 at 09:52:59 AM PDT
So I'm poking around dKos this morning and I find Armando's provocative flame of
Joe Lieberman. I read it. Cool. That Armando, he has a way with words. I only wish to be as gifted. I also notice that Armando has an excellent memory for all things Joementum. He deftly pulled up quotes from as far back as 2003 to prove that good ol' Joe's ability to self-contradict is, well, um, Senatorial.
While this is not one of Armando's best rants, it certainly gets the blood boiling, even the blood of we who cannot vote for or against Joe. But to call Joe "supremely stupid" is in a phrase, supremely stupid.
