Month: December 2004

  • "safe for democracy"

    The Pakistani dictator has broken a promise to step down by the end of the year because his political opponents are a “threat to democracy.” “This is the voice of the majority and the minority should accept the voice of the majority” said General Pervez Musharraf, who seized power from an elected government in 1993.…

  • A review of Rick Warren's “The Purpose Driven Life”

    Here is the undiluted evil of “The Purpose Driven Life,” from the third paragraph of the book: “We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams, and my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s…

  • Flu shot surplus

    After a panic over a flu shot shortage, the media is now reporting a flu shot surplus. What else would you expect from socialized medicine?

  • Great story: Welcome to capitalism, North Korean comrades

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  • Finally: CEO as heroes

    In the last few days, I have been encouraged by several media presentations of businessmen as heroes. In particular, the bios of David Oreck and Donald Trump presented productivity, rationality, passion, innovation, and even egoism as virtues. Is it just me, or has there been a change from the usual vilification of CEO’s as egotistical…

  • 3

    I just finished watching “3,” the new ESPN documentary of Dale Earnhardt . Though I am not a NASCAR fan, I found it to be a great sports movie. Dale Earnhardt is portrayed as uncompromising egoist : racing is his life, and nothing less than perfection is acceptable – on the track, or in his…

  • Origins of the Internet

    It’s easy to take the Internet for granted, in these times of universal internet access and affordable broadband. But it wasn’t always so, and the Institute of Internet History has undertaken the task of creating a “full and faithful” documentary of the Internet, beginning with its early 19th century steam-powered origins. Millions of American school…