Posts by rbryanh

Meanwhile, teaching - arguably the single most important job in any society - is among our society's least lucrative professions.     In America, teaching other people's children is antithetical to feeding your own....

"Lame" is insufficient to describe the tastelessness of these crass, tardy to the party, half-assed imitations.   The word "tacky" needs to make a comeback.  

I'm so excited.  Something to sit next to my Zune.

Am I the last person on earth who actually realizes the trivial details of my daily activities are just that?  Incessant socializing is a terminal disease so far as character is concerned.   Egads…  Not even I care...

Oooh…  Antiquated bloatware for iPad.   Really, Microsoft's motto should be "Everything and the kitchen sink."   I can't wait to hitch their manure spreader to Apple's Ferrari.

Does the US actually have any anti-trust laws anymore, or has auctioning Congresswhores off to the highest bidder pretty much put paid to all that?

Intuit's Quicken uses ⌘A to open its accounts window.  Over the years I used the program, I expect I pressed ⌘A, failed to get "Select All," and hated them with a hot, hurty hate at least 10,000 times.     It's the...

Until it becomes possible to do no business whatsoever with corporations which subvert the democratic process, Apple is the best of a bad bunch

"Apple's reputation intact after negative tax avoidance press"   American's despise our government nearly as much as we do the corporations which run it.  Given that the 99% are every bit as greedy and stupid as the 1%...

When a corporation wins, its customers lose.