The not-so-liberal guys at the Economist did a bit of digging and discovered what Molly Ivins already knew — which is that Dubya screwed up Texas before he started screwing up the United States. In Dubya’s defense, Texas was pretty screwed up even before he became governor.
Entries from May 2001
May 18th, 2001 · Comments Off
May 17th, 2001 · Comments Off
Just for the record, Gracenote is about as sleazy as it gets. They turned the contributions of thousands of people to an open project into a profit-making enterprise that’s being used to bludgeon the very users that did all of their work for them. The lesson here is that you should be careful [...]
May 17th, 2001 · Comments Off
Craig Mundie to Linus Torvalds: I see your Sir Isaac Newton, and raise you Alfred North Whitehead, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford.
May 17th, 2001 · Comments Off
I don’t have time to respond in detail to Andrew Leonard’s appraisal of the world of Free Software in a post-Eazel world, but suffice it to say that there’s lots to disagree with in there.
May 17th, 2001 · Comments Off
From one single term President to another: Jimmy Carter tells Dubya to quit exaggerating the energy crisis.
May 17th, 2001 · Comments Off
Sun to drop support for Java after the 1.4 release. FUD or an April Fool’s joke, you be the judge.
May 16th, 2001 · Comments Off
It’ll be interesting to see the fallout from this letter written by the editor of Out magazine, urging his boyfriend, a major league baseball player, to come out of the closet.
May 16th, 2001 · Comments Off
You think Tony Soprano knows how to blue box? Kevin Paulsen’s report on mob-sponsored phreaking for profit in Las Vegas is a fascinating read.
May 16th, 2001 · Comments Off
So John Ashcroft is holding voluntary prayer meetings before work every morning that all of his employees are invited to attend. If you ask me, that’s inappropriate. I don’t hold his religion against him, but I feel like he ought to practice it in private, outside the context of his office, especially given [...]
May 16th, 2001 · Comments Off
A bunch of people sent me links about the “energy crisis”. I haven’t gotten around to sifting through them all yet because I’m still completely swamped at work, but I promise that I will. Anyway, I appreciate all the stuff people dug up, and I hope to post something here in the near [...]