Author: mike

So I noticed this comment from an earlier story about female sexual predators: Thank you for posting this on your website. I am Richard Pena’s oldest sister and I appreciate the way you portrayed...

I’ve covered this before, but one of the main reasons the Bush Gang is so convinced that they know what kind of nasty war stuff Iraq has is because they sold it to Iraq...

So someone else reminded me that Iraq controls the largest single source of above-ground fresh water in the Middle East: the confluence between the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the Greater and Lesser Zabs. This...

So apparently teen girls are abandoning beef in droves, and this has ranchers very concerned. THey have set up a cheesy website, Cool-2-B-Real (!), where teen girls are reminded that Real girls are “keepin’...

So my server was down for longer than I anticipated… I added a new 800GB RAID-5 disk subsystem and wrestling with the various components was tough. This server runs on an old-yet-exquisitely-tuned dual P3...

So David sent me this sweet little summary of the currency co nspi racy theory about why — in the face of a staggering lack of “evidence” f or a causus belli and astonishgly...

So James Frey has one or two things to say about Dave Eggers and his A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A book that I thought was mediocre was being hailed as the best...

So I read about this latest mutation of the venerable Ponzi Scheme: Matrix Websites that sell positions at the top of the pyramid to people for hundreds of dollars, disguised as “ebooks” or $500...

So my dear friend Roger Carasso has started his own blog. Maybe this means he’ll have less time to post comments here? I think of all the people I have ever talked to, his...

So I was reminded by someone to check out the earlier failed electric scooter Segway predecessors, especially Clive Sinclair’s C5. I actually saw one of these joyless little machines once, buzzing along the road...