Q: What do you get when you hire a right-wing commentator and a reporter to the White House?A: A Common Porter. Someone to shoulder the burden of “Message of the Day” for a debased chief executive.
Category: Essay
ERCOT’s Fair Weather Operations Center
For those of us needing to keep large infrastructures up, but not in the Homeland Security fold, utility web pages of agencies (e.g., water, power, dams, and transportation) are great ways to know what’s happening. Today ERCOT lost balance of…
Celebrating Freedom, Remembering the Enslaved
On this Pesach holiday, let’s remember: Holocaust survivors freed from slave labor Freedom for women and African-Americans Liberation of gays, lesbians and transexuals from the shackles of shame Still enslaved and yearning for freedom: The poor and disadvantaged in Israel…
The Sins of the Fathers
Haredi Jerusalem is aboil over a teenaged father being charged and jailed for admitting killing his infant son, threatening violence in the streets of Jerusalem. Passover did not spare the Jewish babe killed during the month of Nissan. The Tenth…
Intel using Apple as a Whip for PC Manufacturers?
I had two interesting conversations this past week. One was with some Intel mid-range folks, who were pushing really hard for my organization to embrace the new Intel Macs. We’re currently freezing all Apple purchases, because some of our key…
Democracy & the Middle East
In my last post I went over the vote count. In that analysis, Kadima had a 61-seat majority among its solid allies: Labor, Meretz and the Pensioners’ Party. That majority, with the decision today to move one seat from Labor…
When Bullshit Calls Journalists Listen: Iranian Superweapons
Journalists are wimps. Iran, the country that doesn’t have the spare parts to keep its thirty year old aircraft in the air, has superweapons! Missiles that can’t be tracked, can avoid radar, yet are MIRVed. Torpedoes that fly underwater at…
Kyoto Meets Komen
I can’t run the only organization that has this problem. On one hand, our plant management folks are talking about the millions of dollars we can save each year in deploying power management software on our computers. With over one…
Progress at the Speed of Demographics
The 17th Knesset elections are over, and unless something drastic occurs, Kadima, with its kleptocratic leadership and legacy agenda from Ariel Sharon, will form the next government. The election results were Sharon’s last vote of public confidence, especially in light…
No Mysteries
Hamas says it won’t arrest militants who attack Israel Incoming Palestinian interior minister Said Seyam: Hamas will try to coordinate militants’ operations. Okay, let’s string these together: Hamas, an organization with an avowed goal to destroy Israel, is now in…