Through the Keyhole

We're not good at predicting the future

[As we try to plan for and retool for the future,] We’re going to get it wrong. We’re not good at predicting the future. Change is exponential, and our incorrect guesses are incrementally wrong.

– Cory Ondrjka, one of the founders of Second Life (quote courtesy of David Warlick)

Would you like fries with that?

Uninformed in technology = illiterate in technology. Illiterate in technology = “Would you like fries with that?”

– Scott Floyd, Oh. no. he. didn’t.

White House cuts CDC testimony

Before the report made it to the Senate, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) cut 10 pages from a 14–page document from the Centers for Disease Control on the health and disease risks associated with global warming.

OMB spokesman Sean Kevelighan … [said] that OMB reviews take into consideration "whether they ... line up well with the national priorities of the administration."

Sources: White House cut testimony - CNN.com.

Global warming IS occurring. It may be a matter of dispute in some circles as to its cause, but as far as I know there’s no dispute that it actually is happening. So what national priorities might warrent preventing the Senate from knowing about the health and disease risks associated with climate change?

The Gingrich affair

So Newt Gingrich admits having an affair while leading the charge to impeach President Clinton for the same, but says he shouldn't be viewed as a hypocrite?

Woohoo for the Senator from South Carolina!

Yes, Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) does indeed get it right.

And this is why we don't live in North Carolina

Congressman Robin Hayes (R-NC) wants our military to spread Christianity.

Blogging the private lives of others

CNN.com has an interesting article on a lawsuit between two U.S. Senate aides. One is suing the other for making detailed posts about their sexual encounters on her public blog. At issue in the case is whether one person has the right to blog about the private life of someone else...

Outrageous comments in 2006

Media Matters' collection of the most outrageous comments of 2006 is very scary stuff...

Margaret Spellings and Santa

This cartoon about Margaret Spellings and Santa is pretty funny...

No more habeas corpus?

Regardless of how we feel about the war on terror, the current President, etc., as American citizens we all should be troubled by the recent passage of the Military Commissions Act.