On Iran
With the kind of brutal logic of which often only dictators are capable, Stalin once said: “He who casts the vote decides nothing. He who counts the vote decides everything.” How many democratic elections since he uttered those words have…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month June 2009
Jim Cramer calls yet another bottom in housing
Presumably on the theory that if he makes enough calls, sooner or later one of them might be right, Jim Cramer just said we are at the real housing bottom now. Honest. Forget all the other bottoms I called. The…
Don Bogle of the Ventures passes
C&L Surf-rock, the genre perfected by the Ventures, is written off by the foolish as a kind of novelty style, but when done right the blend of jazz rhythms, twangy rock and roll guitar and subtle latin flavor is one…
Iran’s most senior ayatollah: Election was rigged
This is huge, and confirms there is a massive split in the ruling class of Iran.
DOSbox. DOS emulator for XP and Vista
DOSbox is an open source emulator that will run ancient DOS programs in XP and Vista, including Vista 64. Among my arcane specialties, I sometimes convert and migrate Clipper database programs to modern platforms. Needed to run Clipper on my…