Blog O'Stuff

This is not from some tinfoiler: The real US  unemployment rate  is 16 percent if persons who have dropped out of the  labor pool  and tho...

This morning I installed the latest build of Chromium for Mac.  This is the port of Google's Chrome browser to OS X.  It's still co...

ZOMG!

Will It All Come Tumbling Down? A couple key points from the piece: So let me see if I get this right.   At 5% of non-performing loans ...

Nat Hentoff, not exactly a member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, is scared of the Obama Administration .  He is right to be. ...

On one of the mailing lists where I participate, we were talking about pocket computers.   Jerry Pournelle has referred to his iPhone as app...

"J" in this case refers to Jefferson, not Joke. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from...

First , we have a black man who created a fake Facebook account, posing as a white supremacist threatening to kill black people because Obam...

Obviously, the title of this post is a well known pro-choice slogan, which conveniently ignores the presence of a second person, i.e., the u...

An old prospector shuffled into town leading an old tired mule. The old man headed straight for the only saloon in town to clear his parched...

From Speigel Online : [T]he global financial and economic crisis has stifled the boom in container shipping, and it has happened almost ov...

I would like to see a documented case of opponents of Obamacare engaging in astroturfing.  The Obama administration and the leftist press ar...

As quoted by the former mayor of NYC, Ed Koch, who is an Obama supporter: Most alarming for people like me, who at 84 years of age recentl...

eCost.com is selling refurbished Panasonic Toughbooks for $385. LINK . The specs are modest by current standards but one would make a good ...

The weather today was crummy -- hot, humid, and scattered thunderstorms.  So, instead of going to the range as I'd planned, I stayed hom...

Another item of note over the past week was my purchase of a new MacBook for Judith.  She's been using a G4 iBook which she's had si...

Actually, it was a four day weekend, since I took Thursday and Friday off so Judith, the girls and I could take an overnight getaway down to...

What a busy weekend. On Saturday my father and I went up the annual Gunmakers Fair put on by Dixon's Muzzleloading Shop .  I had not g...

And just where exactly is this money supposed to come from? WASHINGTON -- Government support aimed at cushioning the effects of the finan...