I finally got a chance to watch Rachel Boynton's excellent documentary "Our Brand is Crisis", a film I have been meaning to see since it came out sometime in 2006.  This one really set my wheels turning.   I don't have too much to say about the first 2/3rds of the film, as this is the [...]

An earnest attempt to encourage the inevitable transition of our economies would place small business at the center of the strategy.  Now personally, because of my libertarian leanings, I am not one to put much faith in government programs and massive intervention, but seeing as we are already spending upwards of 7 trillion dollars on [...]

There is some reason to believe that the coming Obama presidency will be much more hawkish than many people have anticipated.  To step back in time for a moment, let us recall Obama's controversial remarks back in August of 2007 during the heated primary elections.  In regards to Pakistan, then Senator Obama had this to [...]

Yesterday, in an interview on Democracy Now!, Michael Moore had this to say about an Obama presidency:I’m also hoping that Senator Obama is, you know, like all politicians: you know, they don’t always keep their campaign promises, right? I mean, it’s not unusual. It’s certainly not unexpected. They just don’t always keep their campaign promises. So, somehow I’ve [...]

Is Open Source a political statement? Many would argue yes, and just as many would argue no. Linux Torvalds, with his pragmatic and non-ideological approach to kernel development, stands in stark contrast to the uncompromising idealist Richard Stallman. Yet Linus, despite his pragmatism, is as much a [...]