Rants and Rayguns

This One Even I Find Hard To Believe

saintonge — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:44:02 +0000

Uncle Sammy wants to buy you a golf cart . And the angel said unto them, "Be not afraid! For, behold, ...

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Business Opportunity

saintonge — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:17:32 +0000

Having just dealt with what Microsoft laughingly calls customer support, I have an idea. How about a computer company that treats you honestly? "Hello, this is ...

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A Naysayer

saintonge — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:35:29 +0000

It seems a heretic mocked Our New Messiah™ three years ago. Among ...

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A Brief Note For the History Books

saintonge — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:34:00 +0000

I hadn't intended to comment on the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the President of the United States, but I find there is something about the event worth saying after all. The cut off for nominations for the ...

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More Schadenfreude

saintonge — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:30:24 +0000

Poor Danny Rather. CBS was so mean to him. Oh, after they kicked him off the Evening News, they did continue to pay him his annual salary of $6,000,000.00 (Six Million Dollars), but they didn't use him on the air enough, and as a ...

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Another Book Recommendation

saintonge — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:32:09 +0000

Monster Hunter International, by Larry Coriea. Just go buy it and read it. It's awesome. ...

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One of the Advantages of Not Being a Paid Commentator

saintonge — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:53:43 +0000

I don't have to say anything about the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Which is peculiarly appropriate, because he never did anything worth mentioning. But I will share with you one quote from 1969, when ...

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A Book Recommendation

saintonge — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:38:57 +0000

Spies, The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev. Vassiliev cowrote The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America--The Stalin Era, a task for which he was uniquely qualified — for ...

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The Germans Have a Word For It.

saintonge — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:54:47 +0000

And the word in question is "schadenfreude". It's the joy taken in someone else's misfortune. I shouldn't indulge in it, but sometimes I just can't help myself. And this is one ...

Too Good to be True, but It Is

saintonge — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:01:00 +0000

Dan Rather wants a presidential commission to meet, to consider how to "save" the news business, or the "truly free and independent press",

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