The media and everyone else who acted out on a 16-year-old kid from Kentucky have a blanket excuse for their own ludicrous behavior. They were triggered. The word “snowflake” used to refer to thin-skinned millennials. Now the term applies to anyone who is offended by innocuous things – you know,[…] Read On
I can’t believe I’m actually doing this. I had hoped that all this big bad Facebook nonsense would go away on its own but now I can see that’s not going to happen. And all the breathless, sensationalist hype over a 6,000+ word NY Times expose Delay, Deny and Deflect: How[…] Read On
I was a superhero junky growing up. I wasn’t partial to Marvel or DC Comics but there has always been a distinct difference between the two: Marvel’s writing was more personal, its characters more real. Accessible. Lovable. Hateable too. In a word, Marvel’s superheroes were more human. That was comic[…] Read On
It’s one thing to play the blame game to avoid accountability, it’s another thing entirely to fan the flames of violence for political gain. That’s a game where everyone loses. ICYMI, everyone is losing their sh*t over who’s to blame for the pipe bombs mailed to a who’s who of[…] Read On
When I first read Bloomberg Business Week’s “The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies,” I thought, nah, Apple and Amazon getting hacked by Chinese operatives through a hardware implant on Super Micro servers assembled in China seems extremely unlikely. Now I’m sure of it.[…] Read On
Vincent: I’m gonna take a piss. Mia: That’s a little bit more information than I needed, Vince, but go right ahead. – Pulp Fiction Too much information. The witty reply has become so popular it even has its own acronym, TMI. Snarky retort aside, is it true in a broader sense?[…] Read On
We have no problem turning a blind eye to human rights atrocities, until the spotlight turns on us. Over the past 24 hours all eyes have turned to Washington and Silicon Valley in the wake of the alleged brutal torture and murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The controversial[…] Read On