Pete defends the right of Donald Trump to act like Goebbles January 13, 2021 Every time the Duluth News Tribune made me wait to publish a letter to the editor until 30 days had passed since the last… Continue Reading
An e-mail from ‘Dickie Berkowitz’ May 7, 2020 Not Eudora this week begins: “I am aware, Clark Kent, is your password. Continue Reading
Captcha July 2, 2019 “I am not a robot.” I heard parts of a long story on NPR’s “Mental Floss” a day ago. Here’s a brief summary. Its… Continue Reading
A new Era of paranoia? December 16, 2016 This mornings anonymous emailer sent me a gracious if paranoid message to my reply about the District’s Building sales. Let me first mention that… Continue Reading
Wild Swans and Mao and AWWWWWWW my old website is down July 9, 2015 Claudia and I finished a weighty biography tonight, Wild Swans. We apparently acquired it in February but only began reading it May 29th. Today’s… Continue Reading
What does it take to go viral? March 9, 2012 Apparently a Grand Rapids restaurant review of the local Olive Garden just picked up a quarter million views. What’s so funny about that? I… Continue Reading
Speaking of Groupthink February 20, 2012 An indictment of my favorite info dump – Wikipediea: For the past 10 years I’ve immersed myself in the details of one of the… Continue Reading
Fruits of a blackout January 20, 2012 Lobbyists for Hollywood said Wikipedia’s blackout yesterday was a stunt. Helluva stunt: Continue Reading
Speaking of hyperbolic November 30, 2011 A loved one emailed me this poppycock which is falsely attributed to Thomas Sowell concerning President Obama’s and Occupy Wall Street’s America: It is… Continue Reading
While Congress threatens to muzzle the Internet with SOPA.. November 23, 2011 …It chugs on relentlessly even allowing Russians to show the world that Tsar Putin has lost his magic. This video of regular guys booing… Continue Reading
Chinese lilliputians strike back. May 5, 2011 Bucky Turco describes the the uncivil reaction to the jailing of an impish Chinese artist. Now his fans have discovered a way to raise… Continue Reading
Over the moon February 14, 2011 Apparently the Internet has noticed what millions of Bill O’Reilly’s viewers have failed to notice. He’s incredibly dim. Continue Reading
I love the Internet February 9, 2011 I’ve always hated sweeping dust under the carpet. There has been no better dust revealer than the Internet. I’ve watched a number of world… Continue Reading
My Reading List January 6, 2011 In 1999 after timidly following my daughter into AOL Chat rooms I began exploring the Internet. I was soon building my own website www.snowbizz.com… Continue Reading
Beat it December 21, 2010 The Michael Jackson song. If this site doesn’t eat up your time on the Internet nothing will. Just hit “new” and you can be… Continue Reading
Katyn Forest April 12, 2010 Few people reading or hearing about the plane crash that killed 93 leaders of Poland probably know much about the historical event that they… Continue Reading
Wooing Goo and the broadband speed test March 17, 2010 I first got quite excited about the competition to win Google’s investment to wire up a small city. I was however too distracted to… Continue Reading
limitation of googling March 11, 2010 I just remembered that I meant to insert the name of a book and its author in a previous post. I tried googling but… Continue Reading
Good graphic data January 28, 2010 I just found this website which has superior, if not perfect, graph graphics. The thumbnail above comes from its most recent interactive graph on… Continue Reading
Trolls August 1, 2008 This is another non Red Plan related post. I am reading an interesting NY Times story on the most nihilistic abusers of the Internet,… Continue Reading
