2008 August

I have this recurring nightmare…. I’m at work and surrounded by the largest collection of incompetents I have ever seen.  While I stand there, overwhelmed by the sheer volume of people who need individual lectures on how to find their own desktops, I notice the problem is only getting worse.
I’m just kidding, of course.   [...]

Here’s one we didn’t see coming:  the FBI had warned, back as early as 2004, that low interest rates were attracting shady business types.  Fortunately the FBI was on the case, so we had nothing to worry about.
Now if you’ll stop your goddamn snickering for a moment, I’ll also tell you that the FBI was [...]

I seem to be having rather a good time at the expense of the TSA lately.  In my defense I have to say that I’m not making this stuff up.  The TSA is just doing me the favor of being a particularly good target in the past few weeks.
The latest brouhaha (boobhaha?) took place at [...]

It’s well known that if you break a bone, you’ll be able to predict the weather in the future because the affected area will hurt in advance of rain.  This seems to be even worse with arthritis and fibromyalgia.
The most frequent response I get is that this is due to a change in barometric pressure.
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Two readers of this blog brought up this topic in reference to my post on job security for anti-abortion providers, so I figured I’d sound off (like I could suppress myself anyway).   Before I go any further, let it be known that the original post, as well as this one, was not a referendum on [...]

A coworker was having some trouble with his Dell computer.  He took it to Best Buy.  They took one look at it and proclaimed he needed a new motherboard.
He was not convinced and had it looked at elsewhere.  Turns out the motherboard was perfectly ok.
It would seem that since Best Buy carries Dell, they won’t [...]

A congressional investigation found that a very important terrorism database is on the verge of failure due to mismanagement and design flaws.
Let’s put aside for the moment my knee-jerk reactions to gov’t run databases and get right down to one of the reasons that always backs me up:  the folks who put them together can’t [...]

Yes, if you’re a city on the lookout for revenue enhancement.
No, if you’re a driver.
A study done at the USF College of Public Health showed that not only don’t red light cameras work, they increase crashes and injuries because drivers stop too quickly at the intersections.
Isn’t that lovely?
Rest assured that they’re not going anywhere.   [...]

The Bush administration is proposing stronger job protections for doctors who refuse to perform abortions because of religious or moral objections.
It would seem that they’re already doing much better than their counterparts.  When was the last time you heard of a building where abortions aren’t done blowing up?  As if there weren’t any other indication [...]

Why do we allow this?   More corporate records stored in close proximity to the web.
An Indian hacker is believed to have planted a keystroke logger in a Best Western computer, stole the credentials, then sold it to the Russian mob.  If you stayed at a Best Western in Europe, you had better start looking into [...]