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Terrible GOP healthcare rises from grave
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/351464-gop-odds-rise-on-obamacare-repealEarly estimate is 32 million more uninsured in 10 years if this passes.
About right
*Raises hand*
Modern Dance
I'm not a modern dance guy, but this was amazing. The lazy susan move in the middle is unreal.
The decline of AppleBees et al.
http://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-endanger-casual-dining-restaurants-2017-5The fast-casual industry grew by 550% from 1999 to 2014, The Washington Post reported. By 2020, the fast-casual market in the US is expected to reach $66.9 billion, according to the market-research company Technavio.It's true that AppleBees et al. are being killed by the...
Spot on
http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-great-betrayal-of-middle-americaIn its incoherence and lack of organization, Trump’s victory less resembled a modern social movement than a peasant’s revolt from the Middle Ages. His campaign lacked a coherent program, although its messenger, a New York narcissist, possessed a sixth sense that people “out thereâ€...
Trump foreign policy
https://apple.news/AmdVutPUZTzWogTTL6P_-SADonald Trump is doing damage to the deepest and most broadly agreed foreign-policy interests of the United States.It is not surprising that Trump is incompetent at this as well.
The Cult of Trump
http://www.mediaite.com/online/trumps-cult-was-designed-to-withstand-this-current-media-onslaught-and-thats-whats-happening/I have often referred to Trump’s most ardent supporters as being part of a cult. I have not used this term lightly or figuratively. It is my belief that, having dealt with many of these people online for almost two years now, they...
Trump administration falls apart
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/all-the-kings-men/526980/?utm_source=atltwThe Trump presidency was held togther by baling wire and chewing gum from the beginning.
Just 100 years ago…
http://cafehayek.com/2016/02/40405.html?utm_content=buffer63787&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=bufferWe are living like kings—better actually.
Essays
How Few Thoughts a Brain Holds 2
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, my brain returns to fan the flames of discontent while leaping off the bridge of rational thought and into the black night of a thousand mixed metaphors. Extra vitrol, no charge. Regarding the current NATO attacks on Kosovo, President Clinton talking "moral imperatives" is like Bill Cosby's Fat Albert advocating a diet plan for the marathon runners: There's simply no credibility. Is Clinton the worst foreign policy...
Freedom to be Stupid
My take on Hate Crime Laws and why they're bad idea numero uno. Saying what I think and thinking what I say have never been more dangerous. Or incomprehensible. Introduction One of the organizing principles of every civilized society is that each individual has an inalienable right to believe the most ludicrous nonsense there is. I'm not kidding. It's been codified numerous ways, the most famous probably being the First Amendment's freedom of religion and speech clauses and...
How Few Thoughts a Brain Holds
Random bits of news heartily deserving of extreme vitrolic commentary receive same for price of regular vitrol. My egg nog overdose comes early this year. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Y2K glitch in your PC. Dr. K gets his 60 Minutes of fame. At least he still does house calls. Opinion polls show this is a big plus. The most amazing thing about the current impeachment frenzy taking place in the nation's capital are those commentators (including, ahem, Vice President...
VUI: The New Paradigm
I talk. Computer listens. Computer does things. Finally somebody who cares what I have to say! 2001: A Space Odyssey a few years early. The latest in human-computer interaction, featuring the Macintosh. This story got me over 400 hits on the hit counter. Imagine what it was like for Steve Jobs in 1979 when he took his now-famous trip to Xerox' PARC research facility and discovered the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Here was the new paradigm in human-computer interaction...