Inventing the Next Amazing Thing

Woody Norris, inventor and chairman of American Technology Corp., demonstrates one of his newest innovations that he calls HyperSonic Sound or HSS and talks about his untraditional approach to inventing and education. As he puts it: “Almost nothing has been invented yet.”

Fans of dystopian fiction (or those with a conspiratorial [...]

Augmented Reality

A very nifty website from the “ecoimagination” folks at General Electric to promote their so-called Smart Grid initiatives.

Cutting Through Rush’s Bull

Last night on CNN’s “No Bias, No Bull” program, Campbell Brown put Rush Limbaugh in her crosshairs over the comedian’s attack on business reporter Ali Velshi (who’s Canadian, btw) after he’d criticized parts of Limpballs’ recent Wall Street Journal article.

Here’s the transcript of the rest of the exchange between Brown [...]

Unambiguously Racist

It’s kind of pathetic when someone who evidently has no respect for free speech, who clearly doesn’t have the slightest understanding what the demonstration involved was about, and who apparently doesn’t seem to have any of the facts of the matter straight (he must not have bothered to read the article that he linked to, [...]

Uh-Oh…

In case (like me) you missed this report by Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes last month regarding the second wave of expected defaults on the way, it’s good to keep this in mind when considering some of the actions presently being contemplated by the U.S. government and others to bail out the global financial system. [...]

Trickle Up Economics

Is it possible that Jon Stewart is smarter than Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke?
Earlier this week, on The Daily Show, Stewart suggested in an offhand way, that simply giving the $2 trillion dollars in “stimulus” money (or bail-out money… whatever), directly to the American people for the sole use of paying down their consumer debt. Start [...]

The Crimson Permanent Assurance

Amidst all of the economic gloom and doom, it’s refreshing to take a somewhat more lighthearted view of banking and high finance…

“And so, heartened by their initial success, the desperate (and reasonably violent) men of the Permanent Assurance… battled on. Until, as the sun sets slowly [...]

Harper’s “Creepy” Budget

Fairly predictable criticism from the usual suspects regarding the so-called Conservatives’ feckless new SOS (“Save Our Skins”) budget.

What’s perhaps somewhat less expected was the relatively unvarnished reaction of Harper’s political mentor a couple of days ago:
“I spent five years getting Harper into power, so God knows I want him [...]

“Change” Comes to the RNC

After six ballots, former Maryland Lt. Gov., Fox News commenter and dooche Michael Steele edged out South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson, 91 votes to 77, to become the new chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Obviously, the fact that Steele is the first African-American to hold the post is a significant [...]

Ad Nausea

I’m sure everyone not living under a rock has heard the NDP’s radio ads that were launched immediately after Ignatieff announced that he would be supporting the Conservative government’s deeply “flawed” budget without any significant amendments whatsoever.

Sadly for the NDP, almost nobody outside their traditional base of support will take [...]