Kathy Sierra's situation with threats sent to her blog is intolerable, but sometimes the reaction to it - being applied to sites found unpleasant - is wrong too. Let's ALL grow up some.

I'm normally one who sees the term limits for Presidents as a good thing - because it means that regardless of how crappy a President is, he'll be out of office soon enough anyway. But I'm wrong. Bush has to go. NOW.

I really hate the fact that - with one exception - I'll have looked forward to when each and every American President I've seen is out of office. I've supported Bush grudgingly, just like I supported Clinton grudgingly, and the previous Bush, and.

And now we see if invading Iraq was worth all the blood, sweat, and tears. I'm sort of "for" the Iraq war, with a number of reservations. For one thing, I hate war. I recognize that it's not always avoidable, and I think that once you've commi

I watched CBS' coverage of Live 8 last night to catch the resurrection of the Floyd. Very disappointed, as "Money" got interrupted after the lead. I've decided I can't sign the Live 8 petition. Some great music, from what I saw - especially depen

Andy Oliver has written an article on journalistic ethics, with his standard barb at JDJ because they posted a competitor's ad and ignored his POI article. Enough, Andy. It's gotten old. There's no point in continuing to hold a grudge for me becau

I read an article in Discover magazine (February's issue, not on stands yet) about what would happen to the earth if mankind were to disappear from it. The authors went through some detail about New York in a few centuries and after another ice age,

It's with great sadness that I read all the details of the tsunami that hit Indonesia and the rest of the Indian Ocean. It's hard to imagine the scale of destruction - just looking at death tolls, it's stunning. In my own history, the only point o

Okay, let's get this straight - the Democrats get slaughtered in the 2004 election, so their response is... to rinse and repeat. They went left for the 2004 election, and the people spoke out in droves. "Not going there," they said. The Democrats

A blogger recently got angry at Bush over the kidnapping of another innocent in Iraq, with a litany of protest: the victim paid to get a job in Iraq, was shipped off without compensation, and now stands in danger of losing his life. Damn Bush! Thi

Thank you, Senator Kerry, for many things. First, thank you for running for President. I appreciate your willingness to step into the arena, not only in the Senate, but on the national scale. I understand your intent to make positive change, and t

You know, when it really gets down to brass tacks, Michael Crichton said it best: the earth doesn't need saving. Mankind might need saving, sure, but the earth will go on without us, with barely a nod to our reign, if we cease to exist in a nuclear w

From Joel Spolsky, talking about the death of the Windows API: (I know, I know, at this point the 2.3% of the world that uses Macintoshes are warming up their email programs to send me a scathing letter about how much they love their Macs. Once ag

I think it's no surprise that I enjoy debate and gentlemanly conflict. (Stop laughing.) I think it's my soul longing to be some kind of warrior yet rejecting the urge to be a violent person, so it's an expression of a competitive nature. Of course

I've always been ambivalent abou faith and politics. Some people (and you know who you are) seem rabidly upset about the idea that someone in office might actually, you know, believe in something, and then act upon that belief. Me, I'm all for it