Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
I sense much potential in this student who does project with me.  Much motivation there is in him.  But also much pride.  Pride leads to haste, haste leads to sloppiness, sloppiness leads to crashing programs.  Research training?  I know not.  There is the prophecy of the one who will bring funding to the school.  [...]

By Mona
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Attorney Frank Pignatelli  is the scum of the Earth. After getting busted [addendum: in Ohio] for conspiring with some of his clients facing drug charges and assisting them in trafficking, my emphasis:

He turned informant, and made 30 cases for the Government, including some against his clients. The latest defendant, a former [...]

By Thoreau
Over at another forum, various libertarians are arguing over whether it is anti-market to be upset that a CEO of an investment bank was spending $1.2 million redecorating his office while people were being fired.
It is certainly true that $1.2 million wasn’t making or breaking a company that went into tens of billions of [...]

By Thoreau
I have not paid much attention to the war in Afghanistan, but, then again, who in America really has?  Afghanistan is the war that, at least in the beginning, made sense:  We really were attacked by people based in Afghanistan, their government really was supporting those guys, so we really did have to go [...]

Unqualified Dog. August 14, 1994 – January 24, 2009