Q: What’s the fastest way to make three million dollars? Editorial Note – this is not the original article. I pulled that article after conversing with a friend. His arguments pertaining to the article made me realize that what I had written did not meet my personal journalistic standards. The article was built on what [...]
11.26.08 | technology | bradley
For those of you who have to yet to see NBC’s Monday lineup from November 24, 2008, you might want to skip this post, as I’ll be using several plot points as evidence. As a writer, I tend to watch television with a semi-critical eye. Fully formed characters, well established settings, and plots that are [...]
South Park is normally a show that’s easily overlooked despite a general level of intelligence and classic Cato Institute-esque principles that tends to outstrip most other shows on television. It’s obvious to see why most people overlook the show, episode after episode it is the collection of 4th graders who, despite typical childhood tendencies, are [...]
It isn’t everyday, but most of them, that I see a single sticker on the back of a black SUV in the parking lot at work that positively bothers the hell out of me. That sticker is one of those annoying “Fake Country” stickers that instead of saying GB or DE pronounce someone affinity for [...]
On November 13th, Neil Young put forward an open letter outlining his proposal for how to fix the failing Detroit-based American automobile industry. NPR picked up the story on the 17th, and what proceeds is largely based on a comment I planned to reply with on NPR.org regarding the story. However, NPR’s comment system limits [...]
11.18.08 | feature, life, technology | bradley
Wired.com picked up on an AP story regarding Harvard law professor Charles Nesson challenging the RIAA’s legal campaign on some rather new grounds. I tend to follow the ongoing saga of the RIAA rather avidly, and cracked a smile when I saw a quote from Nesson. Apparently his goal is to “turn the courts away [...]
11.17.08 | technology | bradley
There’s a distinct chill in the air that marks as official the descent of fall onto central Virginia. I know this because today I am not in one of 130 other countries around the world, countries ranging from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan, countries which all have American soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen stationed there. Today I [...]
The emotional drain that was the 2008 Presidential Election came to a crescendo on, as one would expect, Tuesday night. Though I didn’t spend a great deal of time writing about the election (save for my final thought), I did fill my day reading about it, watching it, talking about it, and Twittering about it. [...]
Twenty-one months is a lifetime in this, the age of the ten second soundbite. Twenty-one months is forever in the world of the twenty-four hour news cycle. Twenty-one months is essentially a million moments, any of which can prove to be the point of disaster. And yet those string of moments, a million strong and [...]
I’ve had a bit of an on-again / off-again relationship with what has recently been termed social media. As I might have mentioned previously, I started my online life when I was a teenager by dialing into a local bulletin board system called TopGun. As the board was local, so were the majority of its [...]
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