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Right, Democrats oppose choices.

Sorry to keep ranting, but I’m pissed.

According to this news story, Bush said (at a fundraiser, because that’s all any politician does and will do until 2005), while “a Democrat in the White House would bring higher taxes while opposing ‘every idea that gives Americans more authority and more choices and more control over our [...]

Janet Jackson, Outrage

As the brahaha of Janet Jacksons bare breast at the Superbowl growls down to a low boil, Im going to take the time to here suggest that this little incident is not worth the tittles nor the jots being spent on it.

Janet Jacksons breast is not an outrage. In fact, its quite nice.

The exploding federal [...]

The Body Electric Neon

This morning I was in the library researching a book of photographs by Cole Weston. The book was beautifully designed on high-quality laminate paper to showcase the succinct color quality inherant to Weston’s sensibility. When I came to a Xeroxed page of the photo “Nude in Window, Arizona, 1979,” I was momentarily confused. [...]

My religion isn’t your business — and your business isn’t religion.

I’m not claiming that proselytizing is more common now that a born-again Christian is in the White House, but it seems to be seeping into standard business more frequently—or maybe that’s just this month. Here’s a few stories you might have missed since Nipplegate. Did you hear about the Texas pharmacist who refused to fill [...]

Your product is only as good as your marketing?

Tthere are some basic flaws in the reasoning behind Forbes’ “The Worst Cars of All-Time” list (which are typical of Forbes magazine in general):

1. That it was the “inferior” makers in the American market that were drummed out by the more “quality” Big Three. This rests on the assumption that the Almighty Marketplace shall always [...]