“I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.” – RFK
Posted in politics on Mar 8th, 2004
Not too long ago, the Tennessee Dental Society sued to stop a “danger to patients”: professional tooth cleaning. Not that they had anything against professional tooth cleaning; they wanted the professionals to be dentists and their employees, not dental hygienists in independent practice. One of the hygienists protested that her price was lower, and therefore [...]
Posted in politics on Mar 1st, 2004
Dear Aiden, I think you remember the conversation we had recently at this software conference in Dublin. You came up to me and told me h ow the stuff I was talking about was mostly useless, because it is closed-source, people need to pay for it and that compani es charging for software are evil [...]
Posted in politics on Feb 29th, 2004
Week of real hatred News film critic Jami Bernard suffers backlash to ‘Passion’ review Christ (Jim Caviezel) struggles with the Cross. In 18 years as a professional movie critic, I’ve never gotten the response that I had this week to my one-star review of “The Passion of the Christ.” I knew the reaction would be [...]
Posted in politics on Feb 26th, 2004
“The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.” – George W. Bush “If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.” – George W. Bush “One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’.” – George W. Bush “I have made good [...]
Posted in politics on Feb 26th, 2004
WCBS 880 | wcbs880.com Rooney: As God Told Me … A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney Feb 22, 2004 7:39 pm US/Eastern It doesn’t seem right, but religion has been in the news a lot recently. Pat Robertson says that God has spoken to him and told him that George W. Bush will be re-elected [...]
