REAL SILLY The following op-ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle is worth some attention involving an initiative called RealDVD* by Real Networks.  Titled the "Movie industry's shortsighted fight", it explains: "Thomas Edison, probably America's best-known and most prominent inventor of all time...

Hey, Senator Kerry, how long until the next Spending Orgyâ„¢, my toga is in the cleaners. Not Party Time Clearly, this is no time to party. Economic indicators are deeply troubling. Household debt-to-income levels are at historic highs, and estimates show that homes continue to be overvalued by as m...

For decades the IBM slogan seemed to be everywhere. THINK, it read, simply and starkly. It is apparently long phased out, but the advice remains as good as ever. I was reminded of that on a recent trip to another city, where I witnessed an interaction between two young men, one about four and a half...

It seems that more and more people these days confuse accountability and consequences with ultimatums and punishment. I thought it would be a good idea to sort this out, since the former is a part of a strong, healthy culture, while the latter is a major factor in an abusive one. Accountability stem...

I'm back and getting in the swing of things. I hope to get to most, if not all lingering emails and comments throughout the day, among other business matters to attend to. The day before leaving for Puerto Vallarta, I was fortunate to get my Amazon order for Fat Head and watched it during ...

Funny that this never got mentioned during the campaign last fall, and even now it’s the BBC that’s brought this event to light. BBC reporter Ian Pannell, discussing the Nosedive in Afghan-US relations, traces the current woes back to a visit last year by Joe Biden to Afghanistan, during...

(Via Instapundit) Now that Kaus can actually read the debt bill that the Democrats just passed - a courtesy delayed to everybody who wasn’t a lobbyist - he’s kind of alarmed that his political party has decided to cater to its base by bringing back rules that encourage the formation of a...

I’ve been acquainted with this quote for quite a few years, now, but following the events surrounding the first several weeks of the Obama administration and his allies in Congress, culminating in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, for the first time I truly understand what th...

A British family settling down for a dinner party were held up by an armed gang who burst into their house and threatened their 5-year-old daughter. The gang of up to five men, all wearing hats or hoods with scarves covering their faces, demanded that the terrified owners and their two guests tell t...

that a adult film star porn star smut star feels that they can run against a “disgraced” politician and actually win a Senate Seat. Potentially running with the slogan “Screwing People Honestly”, Stormy Daniels said she is prepared to wrestle Louisiana Senator David Vitter, i...