Posted on 03/14/2017 in misc • Tagged with Economics, Politics
A couple of weeks ago the Techdirt podcast featured a fascinating interview with Robert H Frank, Professor at Cornell and author of the recently released Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy. This is a subject I've debated a few times on various Internet forums, usually ...
Posted on 03/08/2017 in misc • Tagged with Healthcare, Politics
2 Minutes To Midnight
The recent news that the doomsday clock had been moved up to 2-1/2 minutes until midnight very naturally had me thinking about the classic Iron Maiden tune 2 Minutes To Midnight. A protest song about nuclear war, Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson says the song is ...
Posted on 02/01/2017 in misc • Tagged with Politics, Internet, Facebook, Twitter
We are less than two weeks into the reign of Trump the Orange. How are you holding up? I'm pretty much exhausted. This is a quick, off the-top-of-my-head list of the things that are causing me to wake up 2 or 3 times a night.
Posted on 12/31/2016 in misc • Tagged with Site-News, Internet, Politics
ODonnellWeb is old enough to drink! And after the shit show of a year that was 2016, it’s going to need to drink heavily as it kicks 2016 in the ass on its way out. No wait, that might be me I’m talking about there. (Actually we are ...
Posted on 12/26/2016 in misc • Tagged with Site-News, Internet, Politics
I’ve been trying to figure out what to say about 2016 for a couple of weeks now, and I’ve decided maybe it’s best if we just never speak of it again. So onward to 2017. It has to be better, right?
Right?
OK, maybe one last thought ...