Political Irony

© Tom Tomorrow The last week or so was a heck of a fail. The Media is at the top of my list, who seem to have changed from making fun of blogs and other social media, to just repeating stuff they find on the internet verbatim with no fact checking what-so-ever. And how tone [...]

A lot. Want proof? Just look to California. People like to think of California as uber liberal, but it really isn’t. After all, it is the home of Orange county (one of the most conservative places in the US), was the state of Reagan and Nixon, the birthplace of modern religious conservatism, and it fired [...]

[Before you think I'm against minimum wage laws (I'm not) and complain in the comments, read the whole post.] An article in the Huffington Post points out something that I think should be obvious to all businesspeople, but apparently isn’t. The article is about Costco CEO Craig Jelinek, who recently came out in favor of [...]

Finally! Score one (and a big one) against patent trolls. Newegg, an online electronics retailer, has won their patent appeal against Soverain Software. Soverain is a patent troll, a company that has never produced anything, but has managed to extort millions of dollars against companies including Amazon and The Gap, and was in the process [...]

One hopes that this segment by Jon Stewart was the reason AIG decided to not sue the US Government for $25 billion: Well, I guess unbridled greed does have at least one limit — public embarrassment.

Congress acted slightly after the last minute tonight, with the House voting to approve legislation to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. Taxes will not go up on families earning less than $450,000. But the whole point of the “fiscal cliff” was so that Congress would be pressured into dealing with the long-term deficit. Which they [...]