Quid me terret. If I were to have opinions on Dr. Kurzweil, they would not be typed. If I had opinions on Singularity, they would not be readable by machine. If a negative is inevitable, then fear of it transpiring is no longer paranoia.

So it is written, so do I see it.

PS Second shortest rant ever.

Americans have traditionally been defined by two things, people who distrust authority and who love a good fight. It's how we came to be a country and it's how we have continued to define ourselves. It rarely matters what the authority is, someone in this country will start fighting it. One of the more recent and bloody of these battles has been ( Read more... )

In what can usually be ascribed to a slow news day, CNN has dramatically increased their coverage of autism. They even made a special section for it. Except that it's not just some random slow news day, today was Autism Awareness Day (which I didn't know until I was writing this blog). For too long, autism was ignored or seen as just a ( Read more... )

In yet another example of the Government Accountability Office (or GAO) being one of the best and most vicious agencies in the American government, a report about exactly how much money the Pentagon is wasting on countless programs and just how bad those programs are for the US military. One of the programs was the replacement for Marine One, the ( Read more... )

Sorry for lack of rants, managed to pull a couple of muscles ranting. I'm just that good. But, tonight, we marked the sad anniversary and grim milestones that 5 years of American war in Iraq and 4000 American soldiers killed in Iraq. That doesn't count other coalition deaths, Iraqi civilian deaths, nor does it include exactly how many terrorists we ( Read more... )

It's clear that Hillary has won the March 4 Primaries in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island yesterday, and in Ohio by a pretty handy margin. She pulled out what she needed to in order to convince people she's real player in this race and is making it impossible to write her off. While mathematically it's almost impossible for either side to win, it will ( Read more... )

Accurately measuring public opinion is the holy grail of politics: we all know what it looks like, we all want to get there and we all have different views of how to get there and what it means. Some will say that if you know public opinion, you can hear what people are concerned about and govern from there. Others say that if you know the hearts ( Read more... )

Last week, the FBI announced they had done something very, very smart in conducting separate investigations parallel to the CIA involving the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. This move was announced about the same time as this memo came to light. This is setting the stage for securing convictions in an American court for some of the most notorious ( Read more... )

Today, the primaries for Maryland, Virginia and DC are taking place and the past couple of days here have seen a lot of canvassing. Casa del Ranter has gotten calls from each of the major candidates, and two from the Obama and Clinton camps. In fact, the Obama camp had a volunteer call me up by name and ask me to vote. Most of the calls were what ( Read more... )

Yes, another state of the union, and there was nothing great that happened and nothing great he put forward. He had no real bold visions for the future, but seemed to be visions of the past. Granted, they were visions of HIS version of the past, including his bringing up discredited "terrorist plots". He did mention all the key events of the past ( Read more... )