Happy New Year — Now Can We Get This One Right, Please?

So, I was thinking about an end of year post where I would do my best to go about cataloging all the joys and sorrows of the year. But you know what, fuck 2011. It doesn't deserve it, and it didn't earn it. The economy? Meh. The political climate? Meh. We lost a bunch of …

A taxing issue: Why California is being stupid

As some of you may have heard, California just enacted an Internet sales tax. Some states have already done so, and in difficult budgetary times, who can blame them - right? I mean, if you walk into a store and buy something, chances are you have to pay some sort of tax on it. And …

Hacking The Body Politic

The intersection (or lack thereof) between geeks and politics I'm going to start off by apologizing. I'm about to do something I hate to do, because I find it to be a cliché - I'm starting off a piece of writing with a definition. I only do it because I will be addressing several meanings …

The Weakness of the GOP

First, a few quotes: "The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood."  - Bette Davis "You cannot run away from weakness; …

Impure thoughts

We spend our whole lives putting labels on other people. And if we're honest, we can admit that one of the main reasons is we're lazy.

Every Day is Election Day

It is an often repeated conversation with my wife -- she hates shopping and I enjoy it. There seem to be a number of reasons for this breaking of gender stereotypes. My wife was the second oldest of six kids and had fewer luxuries growing up than I did -- shopping was a painful exercise …