Commentary on The Truth Imperative

Does Blockbuster Suck Worse Than Business Method Patents

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:25:00 -0700

Netflix sues Blockbuster to shut online service - U.S. Business - MSNBC.com

Yet another great busienss-method patent fight. Ugh.

Well, I can’t stand blockbuster, who, among other transgressions, got busted in a lawsuit for claiming in marketing, “No More Late Fees” but had a fee listed in the fine print for keeping videos longer than a week. But I can’t stand business method patents wielded as swords no matter who does it.

Favorite Words That Probably Arent Words

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:48:00 -0700

Sheeple

Irritainment

Adminisphere

To go along with other new entries in the Oxford English Dictionary

You can have lots of fun at Unwords

Another Study Showing Real Danger Of Cell Phone Use While Driving

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:48:00 -0700

I no longer work for a large US cellular company, so I am free to write about this topic. Even better, I can write about how the lobbying by the cellular phone industry has been what keeps laws from being enacted to protect the public. Now, I do agree with the position that there are a lot of things drivers do that are just as bad, if not worse (reading the newspaper on your steering wheel, reading email on a blackberry…) so why pick on cellphones, but the fact is that from a public threat perspective, there are way more people doing stupid shit while on their cellphone than all other distracted driving combined, I guarantee.

Appropriate Yet Unfortunate Commentary On The Times We Live In

Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:28:00 -0700

Daily Howler: Coulter makes ‘’errors’’ like other scribes breathe. But store-bought John Cloud couldn’t find them

ERNSTEIN WATCHES THINGS FALL APART: Congratulations to Carl Bernstein, perhaps our frankest press bigfoot. On last evening’s Special Report, Jim Angle cited a recent speech by the Watergate worthy:

ANGLE (4/19/05): Former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, who helped break the Watergate story, says journalism nowadays is squandering the public’s trust, insisting the, quote, “triumph of the idiot culture in news, particularly TV news, has weakened journalist drive for the truth.”