Within mere hours of of Kenya Airways Flight 507 going down, the world knew about it. My own dashboard showed me an alarmingly large red circle in my Buzztracker, noting a major event of world news. It’s truly amazing that we’ve reached a level of technology and information sharing that we have a near consensus-awareness [...]
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In the latest scandalous developments from our current Presidential administration (it’s important to note the latest since so much comes so fast these days), we learn that nearly five million email messages have now gone missing. Normally that might be a nuisance but once the missing messages become the focus of an intense search for [...]
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This is simply one of the most well-written tongue-in-cheek works of satire I’ve found in some time… truly worthy of The Colbert Report. [George Bush] has worked to change his strategy and listen to all voices… We should commend George Bush not only for his courageous leadership abroad, but also here at home. Or… is [...]
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I haven’t been truly excited to vote in this country’s Presidential elections since… Well, before I was born. I imagine I would have been very excited to vote for Kennedy. Unfortunately, that was before my time. Since then my strategy has been a simple one: Vote against. There is always someone that we should vote [...]
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President Bush, facing opposition from both parties over his plan to send more troops to Iraq, said he has the authority to act no matter what Congress wants. “I fully understand they could try to stop me from doing it. But I’ve made my decision. And we’re going forward,” Bush told CBS’ “60 Minutes” in [...]
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Before the “war on terror” America was well regarded. We actually had an advantage in the global economy — as a global superpower that had not abused our power (at least not too blatantly) we were by and large looked upon favorably. We had a big stick, and as long as we didn’t use it, [...]
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We need to give up some of our freedoms in order to keep democracy alive and preserve our safety. Much to my dismay, some people actually believe this (as evidenced by a conversation I had recently, from whence I borrowed this quote). It doesn’t seem to matter that “giving up our freedom” is essentially at [...]
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Asimov wrote that “violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” George W. Bush took us to war long before it was a “last resort.” I’ve got to wonder, then, what does this imply for us as a people, a nation that stands by and watches as the atrocities continue to pile up. But at [...]
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Just your typical wish list for the coming year, in no particular order. (Once again, my resolution list isn’t that interesting: Achieve two more ranks in Karate, which would bring me to 5th Kyu, and spend as much time at the dojo as possible). The impeachment of George Bush (yep, still hoping). A few democratic [...]
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As Bush continues to cover up the ugly truth about his “war on terror” (aka his “crusade for oil”) his misdirections and outright lies are getting more and more blatant. For instance, does anyone believe that he underestimated the war casualty count by a factor of 20? Talk about a numbers game! On October 11 [...]
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I recently read The Decline Of Education In California by Sarah Knopp, a chapter in California Under Corporate Rule (Peter Miguel Camejo). As a treatise on the state of our education system it’s thought provoking but horribly dismaying. Education has been on a decline throughout the United States since the 1970′s and it’s not stopping. [...]
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Recently, this quote caught my attention. Attributed to the Editor of Vanity Fair magazine (Graydon Carter) on Ring Of Fire: “You know how President Bush sounds like whenever he explains something that he understands, whenever he feels he has to give an explanation? He always sounds like he’s talking to idiots. I think the reason [...]
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This is me. Martial artist, zen student, programmer, writer and author, technologist, father of two, photographer and a resident of Los Angeles (well, the outskirts of it).
I also publish Rational Scrum and am President & CEO of Hyrax International LLC, delivering comprehensive process improvements to its clientele. Specialities include audit and assessment of program areas such as project management, quality assurance, risk management and customer satisfaction as well as delivering focused initiatives to improve customer efficiency.
