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Comment on iDon’t Care by Minimum System Requirements « Tethered Swimming

Minimum System Requirements « Tethered Swimming — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:04:48 +0000

[...] same is rapidly becoming true for smart phones. Three and a half years ago I referred to the then new iPhone 1 as an ancestor to the “go anywhere, do anything” gadget [...]

Comment on Authoritarian Naivete by Wrinkled Skin: Our Last Line of Defense « Tethered Swimming

Wrinkled Skin: Our Last Line of Defense « Tethered Swimming — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:52:30 +0000

[...] fashioned intelligence and police work that actually works. And the third is that in the hands of small minded authority they can be used to severely restrict life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness here in the United [...]

Comment on The Prime Sin by Buffoons at Play « Tethered Swimming

Buffoons at Play « Tethered Swimming — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:21:06 +0000

[...] In and of itself that wouldn’t be all that problematic, except that he’s committed the Prime Sin and begun believing that he really is jus’ folks instead of a globe trotting, jet-set [...]

Comment on Some Sympathy for the Screamers by Big White Lie « Tethered Swimming

Big White Lie « Tethered Swimming — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:06:28 +0000

[...] them to, and vote for them because of it, are always going to be disappointed. They’ve been lied to and most of them will never face up to it, which means that their fury will never abate. Their [...]

Comment on Books Are Different by Shelf Pleasure « Tethered Swimming

Shelf Pleasure « Tethered Swimming — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:05:51 +0000

[...] written before about my belief that the death of the paper book has been greatly exaggerated, and this is another [...]

Comment on The Gulf of Mexico Does Not Have a Football Team by War Coverage « Tethered Swimming

War Coverage « Tethered Swimming — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:58:25 +0000

[...] couple of months ago I compared the media coverage of BP’s Gulf Whoopsie to the kind required for reporting a war. It’s not a [...]

Comment on The Sad, Unchanging Afghan Political Calculus by Getting Closer « Tethered Swimming

Getting Closer « Tethered Swimming — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:25:28 +0000

[...] don’t mean to keep harping on my cynical and impolite belief that the primary purpose of the Afghan War is to keep the Reds out of power here in America. But [...]

Comment on McChrystal: A Side Effect of Perpetual War by Getting Closer « Tethered Swimming

Getting Closer « Tethered Swimming — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:25:25 +0000

[...] don’t mean to keep harping on my cynical and impolite belief that the primary purpose of the Afghan War is to keep the Reds [...]

Comment on The Dichotomous Economy and The Atlantic Monthly by Idle Hands, Invisible Hands « Tethered Swimming

Idle Hands, Invisible Hands « Tethered Swimming — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:07:54 +0000

[...] in the Sky Mall catalog is still for sale. It’s the same reason The Atlantic Monthly picked a preppy looking white kid as its poster boy for the unemployed, its readers wouldn’t care otherwise. For those who [...]

Comment on Double Standard by Plata o Plomo « Tethered Swimming

Plata o Plomo « Tethered Swimming — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:04:30 +0000

[...] it deserves. The recent years of staggering violence in Mexico are just the latest symptom, only given play here when bullets find the occasional gringo. President Obama, our third consecutive chief [...]