Quote of the Day

| September 20, 2005

In memory of the man who gave us the “laser,” Gordon Gould: “If I were creating a world, I wouldn’t mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o’clock, day one!” – Evil personified, in “Time Bandits” (But could he give us sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their […]

Sooo-weeee

| September 20, 2005

The newly-initiated PorkBusters blog-campaign to find waste in the federal budget is a good idea, but it won’t do a lick of good unless the people who actually appropriate the money can be persuaded or pressured not to do so. I would therefore propose an appropriations rule (or perhaps even a law) which might have […]