Reports are that people are getting fake TXT messages claiming to announce Obama’s VP pick. I’ve certainly gotten lots of spam claiming that Hillary is the VP pick for example.

A recent Pew research study shows that viewers of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are more informed about current events than “average consumers of NBC, ABC, Fox News, CNN, C-SPAN and daily newspapers.” Pathetic.

Again, nothing annoys me more than unadulterated lies and distortions that go out unchallenged. More evidence that we cannot rely on the mainstream media for fair and accurate reporting. It’s a shame.

Nothing annoys me more than someone using debunked, false, misleading, distorted information to support a position. And who decides to do this with a straight face, but John McCain. You know, we really should require our officials to not only be honest but to be well-informed on what they are talking about. McCain just falls down again with this gaffe showing how he is not only out of touch on the economy, but also on foreign policy – a supposed strong point of his.

Fascinating that we now know that the very mechanism of how our brain determines that we are full (satiety) relies on free radicals, but it is these same free radicals that actually negatively affect our very ability to detect satiety long-term! But carbs are soooo good.

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This is enough to make you vomit in your mouth. Yes, we are all having to pay more _individual_ taxes to make up for US corporations that use kickbacks and loopholes to avoid paying federal taxes. This should make the anti-tax people irate, especially since we live in a world where corporations are equivalent to individuals from a legal standpoint. How anyone can claim that they pay their fair share is beyond me.

This is an entertaining 6 minute video (out of Seattle no less) I documented many of the salient points here.

Legally, there is no requirement that you must have an ID to fly in the US. However, you may encounter lots of resistance. That’s why I, as a security professional, have not yet attempted to do so. My wife would probably not be as interested as I am in the answer…

Ahh, the holy grail. Basically, if anyone gets to photograph your medeco keys, any hacker can whittle a blank from that photo and bypass these “high security” locks.