CSI Las Vegas Sputters Into Season 15
Up front, I have to admit that I am a big fan of the original CSI series. While I wouldn’t say I am one of the biggest fans or anything like that, I have...
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Signs Society Has Reached a Dangerous Tipping Point
A number of years ago, I read Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. It’s an interesting book that talk about how things change from being X...
Dave Hester Coming Back to Storage Wars
Here’s a pretty funny story. I wrote a couple of years back about Storage Wars, a show on A&E that sort of quietly preys on the bad economic times. It’s all about people who...
The Tragedy of Tony Stewart
This past weekend a tragedy occurred Saturday night in the world of racing. No, a driver wasn’t killed in a racing accident or critically injured in a fire, rather a driver was run over...
Can F1 Be Saved From Bernie Ecclestone?
Regular visitors to my blog will know I am a big fan of autoracing. NASCAR, F1, LeMans, I enjoy them all. I even follow more obscure forms of motorsport like world rally, Aussie V8...
Jerk Tech and Vapid Business Models
IN my daily quest to read all of the internet (I fail badly, as everyone else does) I ran across an interesting opinion piece of Techcrunch. In a story called Stop The JerkTech, Josh...
Is Claiming Fair Use Just a Nice Way to Pirate Stuff?
I read Mike Masnick over at Techdirt on a fairly regular basis, in part because he is an endless source of laughs for me. He has completely convinced himself of a bunch of different...
Whiners and Wind Ups In the New F1
Anyone who reads this blog knows that I am a fan of auto racing (and to an extent motorcycles as well). I have routinely and regularly called out NASCAR for their sleep inducing, near...
7 Ways Clickbait Will Destroy The Internet
Sarcasm is pretty much how I roll sometimes, and this is going to be one of those posts. Almost everyone surfing the internet has been a victim of click bait at one time or...
Why Rick Falkvinge Just Doesn’t Get It
Recently, Rick Falkvinge posted up another rather laughable article over at torrent freak, which is one of the few sites that seems to let him post with fairly free reign. Anyway, the piece, called...
AandE Folds Under Pressure and Brings Back Phil Robertson
It’s amazing what a whole bunch of public pressure can do to correct over zealous political correctness. It seems that A&E figured out which side of the bread their butter was on, and decided...
Lotus F1 Owner Thinks Most Teams In Financial Trouble
The financial troubles of Lotus F1 team got revealed late in the 2013 season, when driver Kimi Räikkönen stated without a doubt that he had not been paid at all for that season so...
Political Correctness Taken Too Far and Marks And Spencers
Here’s another story, just like the Duck Dynasty story, that shows that the public is no longer willing to get their rights trampled on just to be politically correct. The UK has a fairly...
Duck Dynasty versus Political Correctness
It’s been interesting to watch the fall out of the Duck Dynasty situation, and how the battle lines are being drawn up. If you have been hiding under a rock or watching nothing but...
