"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
John Robb says political memes increasingly rule and are deciding the future. I disagree. Memes and the internet in general are indeed superb ways to get a message out. However, as I learned when helping organize Iraq anti-war protests, the…
Sometimes a movie captures the zeitgeist of the times. Our times are increasingly edgy, disjointed, cynical, with no one sure what is going to be happening next, except that normal rules no longer apply. So what better metaphor for that…
Yes, Hugo Chavez, and now Maduro, made huge blunders in “managing” the economy of Venezuela, if what they did could even be called managing. It’s more like a slow-motion sequence of disasters that is now escalating. Yes, they screwed up,…
Credit cards with chips can be hacked, and it’s not because their internal security is faulty. The primary issue is retailers not encrypting the transactions because, golly, that will cost them money. So, they’re leaving the doors open and hoping…
A few years ago at the RNC: “Hey, those Tea Party people are making quite a ruckus. Let’s invite them into the party. Then we can co-opt them and use them to defeat the Democrats.” <cackles with glee> Some months…