The Perfect Candidate

The Perfect Candidate

This is the first time I’ve done this here… but I’m going to take a poke at a specific meme that’s been kicking around the web for a while. That infographic seriously leaves a lot to be desired. In fact, it leaves out quite a bit of pertinent...
Walks Like A Duck

Walks Like A Duck

As a former UseNet and chat room aficionado, I spent years on the internet debating angry Christians and angry atheists, angry Muslims and angry feminists, angry Liberals and angry Conservatives, and angry Dems and angry NeoCons. Though all presented interesting...
Not The Same Thing At All

Not The Same Thing At All

So the Walmart of online-media-by-mail, Amazon.com, has now allowed its false “customers come first” mask to slip, revealing the ugly truth: it’s a corporation, and as such is now being pressured by its greedy shareholders to increase its profits...
Out With The Old

Out With The Old

A few words about our ever-useful (if sometimes ravenous) economic system, upon which rest the hopes and well being of the Western world: The god of capitalism is profit. In a capitalist environment, if a business venture of any kind wishes to survive, it must face...
Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose Your Own Adventure

There’s an interesting theory called Linguistic Determinism (sometimes referred to as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) that suggests that language limits the way we think about things. Meaning that if a language doesn’t have the necessary words to define a...