View from the new office at sunset.

A case for the iPad, in philosophy at least. I’m not a fan, I wouldn’t buy one (it’s a toy not a tool in my book), but it’s an interesting step in the evolution of computing.

Man, I miss writing for this site. It’s seems silly, as it’s my goddamn website, but circumstances of late have left me with little more than a series of blockquaoted articles with little significance.

No, I find myself wrapped up in things that the wade of living-in-the-Jeep times would scoff at. Concerns of things like career and responsibility. Hippy Wade meets Yuppie wade. It’s like a narcotics market-model…first it’s just a flat screen TV, just to watch movies on…suddenly you turn around and there’s a townhouse and a personal trainer in your midst…and it turns out you really like it.

It’s fine, we killed of hippy wade a long time ago, after the organic toilet paper incident, and we even still regularly frequent the hotel subaru in the summer times road warrior reenactments (plus coffee, minus the post-apocalyptic bits). Still though this time of year especially, i do miss the prospect of getting the hell-out-of-town and heading out to the desert for a few days, whether it be to climb, ride a bike or just stare off at the naked expanse of West Texas. Something.

Normally I despise Flash in any and all flavors, but the Mohawk’s site, really has a nice header. Just wish it didn’t reload on every damn page.

If the financial crisis has taught us anything it’s that money and greed are two powerful forces that can blind us to the path’s we’re on as a society. Government’s role here is to help apply the brakes to the invisible hand of the market, to temper it with a smattering of moral framework, with the goal of protecting and supporting those that pure capitalism would ignore (and crush). This framework grows directly from our popular electorate, which acts as an objective force in the  whole government gig, making sure that no one person/citizen becomes to powerful via excessive influence or wealth – the goal being that the common man can always run for office, should he want to effect change in his country.

Sweeping aside a century-old understanding and overruling two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections. The ruling was a vindication, the majority said, of the First Amendment’s most basic free speech principle — that the government has no business regulating political speech. The dissenters said allowing corporate money to flood the political marketplace will corrupt democracy. The 5-to-4 decision represented a sharp doctrinal shift, and it will have major political and practical consequences. Specialists in campaign finance law said they expected the decision, which also applies to labor unions and other organizations, to reshape the way elections are conducted.

Well, fuck.

The US is unfairly catching a lot of flack of not getting more aid and assistance into Port au Prince. One issue, if you’ll check your geography, is that it’s an island and we can’t drive there, the other is the insanely small airport.

It’s not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It’s that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.”

Yup.

Amazing how Conan’s Resignation letter was funnier than the last 17 years of Leno-hosted shows combined, particularly the sign off, “Have a great day and, for the record, I am truly sorry about my hair; it’s always been that way.”