Archive for October, 2011
While I am sympathetic to the general ideas of the Occupy Wall Street movement, I’m worried that there are some within it that have dreams of becoming martyrs. I’m reading the book Nixonland by Rick Perlstein, and it details how politicos like Richard Nixon were able to use the images of tear gassed rioters in [...]
October 26th, 2011 | Posted in Business Matters, History, Politics, Random Rant, Television | 1 Comment
Sarah Ruthless: “Out of this war, the greatest since the beginning of history, a new world must be born, a world that would justify the sacrifices offered by humanity. This new world must be a world in which there shall be no exploitation of the weak by the strong, of the good by the evil; [...]
October 19th, 2011 | Posted in Business Matters, History, TSE Chat Room | No Comments
Last night as I slipped into a Nyquil induced coma I was reading of the new Siri feature and how it differs from the existing voice recognition features on Android phones. Siri is widely expected to become self-aware and I found myself in a world were she did. Six months after I secured my iPhone [...]
October 14th, 2011 | Posted in Humor, Random Rant, Television | 3 Comments
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October 12th, 2011 | Posted in 2012, Humor, Politics, Television | No Comments
We are just beyond one year from the 2012 United States presidential election, and at this point the cast of characters are essentially set. The combination of time and contenders who have bowed out, have us set with the incumbent Democrat and his main Republican challengers. The Republican field has some returning faces from 2008, [...]
October 12th, 2011 | Posted in 2008, 2012, Health Care Reform, History, Politics | No Comments
Last evening, as I do most Wednesday evenings I had dinner with my parents at their home. We all exchanged stories of our discussions with coworkers about our unfortunate incident with the deer outside of Keystone Heights and my mother discussed issues she was having with her iPhone. All three of us are iPhone owners, [...]
October 6th, 2011 | Posted in Business Matters, History, Sunshine Empire Masters Series | No Comments
Last night reviewing the analytics of my website I found that I received one keyword search visit from the term “dixie chicks called bush nazi.” I’d actually not heard the news of Bocephus spouting off about Obama being a Nazi. But I’ve always found it fascinating about the conservative character, that when presented with such [...]
October 4th, 2011 | Posted in 2012, History, Iraq War, Music, Politics, World Affairs | No Comments
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October 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Business Matters, Humor, Politics | No Comments