Dr Wingnut

Category: Social/Environmental

  • Ethics

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    Ethics is the nuclear wast of the executive site.  It’s dangerous, it’s always there, and nobody’s sure what to do with it.Kieran Mathieson, Oakland University, IEEE Computer, July 2008

  • On treating a President like Royalty

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    George Bush keeps forgetting that he only gets to live for a little while in the White House, and that he’s not the permanent occupant.  There’s an excellent essay about our schizophrenic behavior towards our President because we keep forgetting that he’s not Royalty, as exposed by the interchange between George Bush and Jim Webb.My…

  • Lawn sign spotted yesterday

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    “Stop the war against…”, and then in a white square apparently pasted over something else, “whoever is next.”via email from Bob Savage, Thr, 03 Jul 2008 11:44:26 -0700

  • Food for thought

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    There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class.  One day while the class was in the lab, the Prof noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.The professor asked the young man what was the…

  • Are you smarter than an eighth grader?

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    Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education?  Well, check this out.  Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?This is the eighth grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas, It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society…

  • Put your utility company on a diet

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    If you were wondering how much it’s costing you to run your TV when it looks like it’s off, you can use an energy meter to watch the idle consumption.  A condition sometimes called, “vampire power consumption.”  I ran across this homemade do-it-yourself energy meter, the EnerJar.  but if you’re not handy with a soldering…

  • The politics of fear and political hysteria

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    The history in this county to me, is that the counter subversives, starting with the alien and sedition acts — way back in — after the revolutionary war, they always do more damage than the subversives they’re out to counter; and that’s the lesson that we ought to take from it.Victor Navasky, author of “Naming…