Archive for the “Rants” category

What is Your Obligation to Your Lender?

March 25, 2008

Initially I was going to include this in the next issue of “Comments on Comments,” but it’s awfully long, and despite having recently posted a handful of thought-provoking posts (at least, IMO) in the last week or so, the comments have been few and far between. I didn’t want to let this wait any [...]

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Kwame’s Rant

March 12, 2008

King Kwame is back at it again, ruining last night’s “State of the City Address” with an unscripted tirade, complete with the “n-word.”
In reference to the ongoing train-wreck that is Kwame’s mayoral résumé, (e.g., the recent sex-with-his-top-aide-scandal, the misappropriation of public funds, new developments in the dead-stripper allegations…) he says,
This unethical, illegal lynch mob [...]

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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Customer of DTE Energy?

March 11, 2008

Via FSK’s shared items, I came across this Techdirt article about false positives in Employment Eligibility Verification, and the nightmare they’d be sure to cause hundreds or thousands of decent people.

My Cato colleague Jim Harper has a new paper looking at proposals to implement a nationwide electronic “employment eligibility verification” program. This was one of [...]

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Why Is Nextel Still in Business?

February 20, 2008

I just got an email from Corporate, saying that we’re finally able to use Blackberry devices with our network. I checked my current carrier, Nextel/Sprint to see what they’re offering…
Surprise! The same fucking blackberry 7100 that was brand new, three fucking years ago.
It’s also the only Blackberry device they offer that is compatible [...]

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