A Peculiar Blog

Once again Iran is in the news, once again it’s because they’re refusing to halt their uranium enrichment program. The US state department is once again talking about sanctions:

Just in case you thought China was the only country doing stuff like this, they’re not. The Iranian government is working on a law that’s going to “toughen punishment for harming mental security in society” (translation: give the government more license to kill people that openly disagree with it.) They’re already blocking websites that either have sexual content, anything religious that does not agree with Islamic doctrines, and of course, anything that doesn’t agree with government approved politics.

The mortgage industry took a big hit not too long ago when a major lender ended up having to be sold off at bargain basement prices along with a huge load of government bailout money to go along with it. Now with more major financial institutions looking at serious trouble, there’s talk going on about he shot of another government bailout to keep the economy from suffering any more than it already has.

Lawrence Roberts is one of those names that most people using the Internet have probably never heard or read before. He’s one of the people that were involved in developing what has come to be the Internet that we all use today. Specifically, He did a lot of the groundbreaking work in “networking through data packets”

This Columbia University computer science professor has decided to get into the “big brothe” act and has co-founded a New York-based company named Sense Networks to (you guessed it) sell tracking software to other companies.

He spoke recently at the National Governors Association’s semiannual meeting and talked about a growing polarization in America. He made this 44 minute speech, citing statistics about voting habits and such, painting the picture that apparently people in this country are physically segregating themselves into groups that all tend to vote the same.

This election has turned out to have been rigged eight ways from Sunday so that Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe could continue to stay in power. From what I’ve read, there’s really no question about it, the election was totally bogus and Mugabe shouldn’t be Zimbabwe’s President any more than Hannibal Lecter.

I just saw this article on Time about something that’s got to be one of the flat out dumbest things I’ve heard about in quite a while. The practice of sending text messages while driving.

According to an article on PC Pro, media giant Rupert Murdoch was provoked into an “angry outburst” over the fact that somehow, Facebook has managed to overtake MySpace.
Thing is, I’ve got accounts on both sites and I have to say that without doubt, Facebook is the slower, more aggravating site to use. And I’m [...]

Well, the economic news is continuing to slide and things aren’t looking good. According to the labor department, employers cut another 62,000 jobs in June, bringing the total to around 400,000 or so since January ‘08.
The cause? Well, lets just say that I think it’s reasonable to lay the blame for so many [...]