Recently The Smoking Gun revealed the identities of the formerly anonymous social engineers behind PrankNet. Members called strangers via Skype and convinced them to smash their windows by claiming that there was a gas leak, or urinate on each other by claiming that it was the only antidote to chemical burns from fire suppresant chemicals. They ( Read more... )

So this is interesting. Saturday was the Washington, Kansas, and Louisiana state Republican primaries. McCain lost handily in the eastern states: Louisiana and Kansas. Polls closed in Washington and the votes started getting counted. McCain and Hucabee traded spots as the leader and with 87% of the precincts reporting in... nothing happened. ( Read more... )

For a while I was interested in Ron Paul. He interviews well, isn't afraid to buck the party line, and seemed like the kind of conservative that could have kept us out of the trouble that we've gotten into the past eight years.

But my brief love affair with this quirky libertarian came crashing back to earth when I started reading his old ( Read more... )

Various family members and cow-orkers have apparently been doing a bit of reading on the internets. In the past two hours I have been informed in breathless, hushed, sincere, irony-free tones that:

• Electronic voting machines are insecure
  
• Ron Paul is crazy
  
• Doctor Phil is an opportunist