Month: April 2005

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Strength

04/05/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Strength
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them.  There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard Byrd
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Hello, my name is Jeem

04/05/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Hello, my name is Jeem
Over the weekend, I took in the BBC’s “The Kumars At No. 42”–a hilarious sitcom/talk-show hybrid featuring an extended Indian family that has immigrated to London.  To help pay the bills, these fictional Kumars, incongruously, […]
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Gateway drugs

04/04/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Gateway drugs
I was reading the CTO Connection in Infoworld on 29 March 2005 where the Chad Dickerson said, “Some call the iPod the ‘gateway drug’ to the OS X platform.”  What a great reference.  The only […]
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Extremism

04/03/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Extremism
Extremism is so easy.  You’ve got your position, and that’s it.  It doesn’t take much thought.  And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.Clint […]
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Homeland Security Self-Examination

04/03/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Homeland Security Self-Examination
by Ray LesserHomeland Security is the job of all patriotic Americans.  Although the FBI, CIA and hundreds of other government agencies are spending millions of man-hours and billions of tax dollars trying their best to […]
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Why was this man CEO?

04/02/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Why was this man CEO?
I know what I don’t know.  To this day, I don’t know technology, and I don’t know finance or accounting.Bernie Ebbers, former WorldCom CEO, testifying in his trial for fraud that he had no konwledge […]