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The Strategy of a Failed Candidate?
While my opinions of both CNN and TIME are best kept heavily muted, I continue to have a high opinion of Fareed Zakaria; and I am impressed that TIME has allowed him to pursue projects leading to articles that plumb far deeper than the usual superficiality...
Woman Charged for Allegedly Sexually Abusing Five-year-old Girl And Streaming Assault Footage Over the Internet
A Manalapan, N.J., woman has been charged for allegedly sexually abusing a five-year-old girl on more than one occasion and streaming footage of a sexual assault over the Internet. How People Arrived Here: which prison is byron kingbird at, abused girl...
Television Trumps Cinema Again At the Golden Globes
Once again curiosity got the better of me when it came to reviewing the results of the Golden Globes. However, while last year my curiosity was directed at Melissa Leo, this year there really was not anything in the movies category that drew my attention....
Free Market Health Care
According to an Associate Press story filed by Joseph Pisani this past Saturday, Groupon (along with other daily deals sites) is moving into health care. In other words coupon-based marketing is now flourishing, at least on the Web, in areas such...
Farewell, Firefox
I never made an explicit New Year’s resolution to bail on Firefox in 2012. I just realized that, while most of the other software I have been using has been catching up with all the monkey wrenches thrown at them by Lion, Firefox was the one piece...
Steve Jobs Without the Hagiography
I was wondering whether or not The New York Review of Books would select Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs for consideration and, if so, whom would be assigned the task. The answer can be found in the latest issue (January 12), in which Sue Halpern is...
The Gilded Cage of Slavery
One of my favorite themes has been the extent to which the world the Internet has made has become a world that is steadily reducing workers to a new generation of slaves. The general concept is not a new one. Last April I had quoted Karl Marx on the...
Objectivism on the Side of the Angels
After reading Hugo Slim’s review for the London Telegraph of Steven Pinker’s new book The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes, I am not sure I really want to slog through all 802 pages of the book itself....
