The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Learning to Love Volatility
In a world that constantly throws big, unexpected events our way, we must learn to benefit from disorder, writes Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324735104578120953311383448.html
This is a _really_ interesting article, I strongly recommend it to my reader(s). …
A friend of mine sent me an email asking to leverage my MBA education to learn about government manipulation of interest rates. I decided to go ahead and respond to him through a blog post since I figured it might …
FBI’s abuse of the surveillance state is the real scandal needing investigation
That the stars of America’s national security establishment are being devoured by out-of-control surveillance is a form of sweet justice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/13/petraeus-surveillance-state-fbi
As Glenn put it: “…there is some …
Fake tech gear has infiltrated the U.S. government
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/08/technology/security/counterfeit-tech/index.html?source=cnn_bin
What is really amazing to me is the totally unspoken story about the non-governmental costs associated with this exact same issue. Because the government has historically been required to go with …
US Muslim placed on no-fly list is unable to see his ailing mother
Despite never having been charged with any crime, an Air Force veteran is effectively exiled from his own country
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/05/muslim-no-fly-qatar
I know I talked about easing up …
I don’t have that many reader(s), but felt that I would do my tiny part in promgulating yet another instance of partisian involvement in the operation of supposed non-partisan arms of the government…
Republican Pressure Leads to Withdrawal of Fact-Based …
Prior to my looking at the third-party candidates and reviewing them I am going to quickly describe my views so my reader(s) know from what direction I cast my gaze. I doubt this will be all encompassing (and I am …
The progressive case against Obama
Bottom line: The president is complicit in creating an increasingly unequal — and unjust — society
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/27/the_progressive_case_against_obama/
I am not totally sold on the author’s case for the third party. There is the plausible case …
Is the middle class an endangered species?
After losing ground for four decades, middle America increasingly looks doomed. Here’s how it happened
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/is_the_middle_class_an_endangered_species/
This is likely to be a rambling post, brace yourself… I have felt in my gut for …
It seems that there is no longer any point in droning on and on about the ‘impending’ police state, it is now fully embedded in concrete:
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent
Complete with a newly coined, …