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Unbowed, or more likely ignorant, of their previous fisking, The New York Times editorial writers continue to demostrate that I am overqualified for an editorial writing job at the nation's "paper of record." The judicial nominations debate reached a new low this week when a Republican senator compared his Democratic colleagues to Hitler. Granted, Sen. […]

Wired News reported earlier this week that a UCLA professor is working on what it accurately calls "an extremely restrictive form of digital rights management to protect DVD movies." I've criticized the Federal Communications Commission and the movie industry before for their efforts to curtail the principle of "fair use" by promoting the over-the-top, restrictive […]

But otherwise, I've never really liked Pepsi products -- so I don't have to boycott them for the utter idiocy of their COO. I mentioned Pepsi Exec Indra Nooyi's little "the world is like a hand and the continents are fingers" analogy to a few people at work. You know, everyone was able to guess […]

The only compromise on judges that I will be willing to endorse is the Patterico compromise.

An anonymous commenter in the post below had the following to say: With regard to judges and the filibuster--please note--what goes round comes round. Republicans better hope that they stay in the majority! Well, I certainly hope the GOP stays in the majority. However, I also believe that if the Republicans caved -- preserving the […]

I've had my digital video recorder saving the Senate debate on judicial nominees for posterity's sake, and I continue to be flabbergasted by one of the Democrats' weak claims to legitimacy. It's something that has been has been seen elsewhere -- like this op-ed piece in Wednesday's Union-Tribune -- but has now made it to […]

Nope, I wasn't among the marginally insane who stood in line for hours yesterday, skipped work and stayed up late to see the latest "Star Wars" flick. I'll see it before the weekend's out -- probably at the last showing Sunday night in an effort to avoid some of the crowds. Instead I stayed home […]

The only good thing about the continuing Newsweek flap over Gitmo is that they keep showing the cover of the issue that the story appeared in.

Democratic Reps. David Obey and John Dingell are asking for an investigation into the head of the "Corporation" for Public Broadcasting's Kenneth Tomlinson after he has initiated reforms to make the network's programming more balanced wacko right-wing. There was one statement in Obey and Dingell's letter that nearly caused me to spray water all over […]

The New York Times decision to put its columnists and editorials behind a subscription-only service is going to save me quite a bit of time responding to dishonest garbage like this. Unless the Democrats are smart enough to back down and delay their filibuster fight for a Supreme Court nominee, the Republicans are going to […]