Category Archives: IMHO

Pat Who for President?

Okay Folks I’ve finally made my decision. My Presidential candidate of choice is Pat Paulson. Yessir, I had a flashback to my younger years when good ol’ Pat ran for President and cried when he didn’t win and Mister, that’s honesty in politics if I ever saw it.
Now it’s not that the present day candidates [...]

Not Smart Enough to Vote for Obama?

Hillary Clinton won W. Virginia in what Adam Nagourney of the New York Times calls an electoral shellacking. Well, good for her, it’s about time. However, Barack Obama’s advisors are waving her win aside blatantly hinting at the fact the state is filled with white, uneducated(?!!?) people.
To wit:
Mr. Obama’s advisers downplayed the West Virginia loss, [...]

It’s the Lottery’s Fault?

I read an article today in one of the local newspapers about the 30th anniversary of the Vermont lottery and the possibility of expanding the lottery in various yet unsaid ways. What caught my attention about this article was that among the interviews of local folks about how they felt about this possible expansion of [...]

FCC Auction: C-Block Minimum Bid Met. Was it Google?

$4,713,823,000! The high bid came this morning and placed on the highly desired C-block of frequencies that is being currently auctioned off by the FCC. Now the big question for me is who made the bid? I’m especially interested in this for one reason:
Google
Why Google? Back in August, 2007 I wrote up an article about [...]

No More Geriatrics in the White House

I have decided (just last night) that for the benefit and good of all people of the United States of America, we must no longer allow those who would qualify as senior citizens to be elected as Commander-in-Chief. No longer shall we allow those officials who qualify as candidates for Social Security, Geritol Complete  AARP [...]

Wikia Search-It’s an Alpha Guys, Lighten Up

Wikia Search hit the streets yesterday to rave…well…massive criticisms actually with blogger’s and prominent news sites lambasting the poor thing before it even made 10 paces out of the starting gate. And after one whole single day for public testing too! Come on people, it’s and alpha, okay? The developers make the choice as [...]

USA-Worst in Surveillance and Privacy?

How do you like this folks? In this years international privacy report the good old US of A has attained an absolute bottom of the barrel rating for privacy and surveillance of it’s citizens. Looking at this report would make you think that posters of George Orwell’s “Big Brother” are being put up on sides [...]