Category Archives: Web/Tech

Nanny NTSB Urges Cellphone Ban In Cars

Remember: “It’s For Your Own Good. We Know What Is Best For You. We Are Your Betters.” (Washington Post) The National Transportation Safety Board recommended Tuesday that all states and the District ban cellphone use behind the wheel, becoming the first federal agency to call for an outright prohibition on telephone conversations while driving. Distracted […]

Big Mean Ole Conservatives Hit DOJ For Trying To Stop AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

Somehow, the DOJ suit against the AT&T/T-Mobile merger deal became about Conservatives The Obama administration is under attack as anti-business and anti-jobs – and it gave its critics more fuel for the fire Wednesday. Obama’s Justice Department announced Wednesday morning that it’s going to court to block AT&T’s efforts to buy T-Mobile. Minutes later, FCC […]

eLocity A7 Tablet: The Review

I finally received my eLocity A7 tablet last night around 730pm (BTW, **** you, UPS, for making me literally sit around all day waiting, refusing to give any sort of time. Couldn’t even sit on the back deck for more than a few minutes, in case I missed them. ALWAYS use Fedex), and, after a […]

Obviously, Twitter Shares Part Of The Blame For Weiner Being Pond Scum

ABC News doesn’t come out specifically and say that Twitter shares the burden for Rep Anthony Weiner (D-NY) sexting issue, but they sure imply the hell out of it! Congressman Weiner: Did Twitter Make Sexting Too Easy? In the end, of course, New York Congressman Anthony Weiner said he did it to himself. He was […]

Reading Books Is Apparently Bad For Globull Warming

All you folks who read books, you are killing Gaia, and need to immediately buy an e-reader (until the alarmists determine that they are bad for Gaia). From TerraPass Unfortunately, the business of publishing books, newspapers, and magazines has a large environmental impact. In addition to the tens of millions of trees harvested every year, […]

BWT, Your iPhone Will Kill You From Globull Warming

Tom Nelson frequently makes jokes in his headlines about you using an iPhone and it causing it to flood in some 3rd world shit hole, er developing nation. I don’t think even he saw this one coming Carbon emissions? Energy overuse? Sketchy labor relations? There’s an app for that, and it’s all of them. This […]

Are You Ready For The Main Street Fairness Act?

Something called the Main Street Fairness Act has to be a good piece of legislation, right? Designed to help out retailers, small mom and pop businesses? Um, no A Democratic senator is preparing to introduce legislation that aims to end the golden era of tax-free Internet shopping. The proposal–expected to be made public soon after […]

Ed Markey (D-ranged): GOP “Trying To Destroy The Whole Wide World”

Not content with simply whining about one thing at a time, Ed Markey (D-Ma) works the Internet and globull warming into the same rant (via The Blaze through The Daily Bayonette through Tom Nelson) Some choice derangement from his rants about GOP legislation to stop ‘net neutrality” and stop the EPA from regulation greenhouse gases […]

Obama Now Pushing….Copyright Reform!

I’m sure that this will somehow create jobs or something, and is obviously an extraordinarily important issue to the American people The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making “illegal streaming” of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers. In a 20-page white […]

Why, Yes, Jesse Jackson, Jr. Does Stand By His Idea Of A Free iPad For All Students

I thought about making everyone take a guess, but, hey, it’s Friday morning, almost time to take the thinking caps off for the weekend, and really, I doubt anyone would have a tough time figuring out what this far left progressive would want to do Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) said he stood-by a proposal […]

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