Here come the bedbugs again, and based on this Scientific American story, we may as well surrender.  There is nothing we can do about them short of burning down our domiciles it seems. Who knew these little buggers were so clever? And then we read that the 13-year Cicadas are back, at least in the American south.  Tens of billions […]

I caught a whoopin’ in early February from friends in the not-for-profit industry upset with a warning I wrote for non-profits receiving government funding. Make alternate plans for grants in the future, I advised, if you don’t provide essential — truly essential — services. That was no great insight on my part.  Anyone who works […]

A number of professors at Catholic University just sent a nasty diatribe to House Speaker John Boehner, a practicing Catholic who will be giving the commencement address at the University this year, questioning his religious faith for proposing federal budget cuts. “It is good for Catholic universities to host and engage the thoughts of powerful public figures, even Catholics such as yourself […]

The Thai Justice Ministry is recruiting “cyber scouts” to scour the Internet for any insults to the Thai Royal family, according to a report today .  Anyone caught doing it can be sent for a long stretch in the Thai Big House, although there first will be a warning. I have nothing against King Bhumibol Adulyadej — I have never met the man — but […]

Please sir, may I have some more? Joel Klein included a gem of a quote from the late head of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), Albert Shanker, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed yesterday. “When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interest of school children,” Shanker was quoted as […]

I sat down last night to write a few complaining words about Microsoft’s awful web browser, Bing, that is now being foisted on Blackberry users. The thing is typical Microsoft. It’s too smart by half. It tries to do a little of everything instead of the one thing it is supposed to do well — […]

http://youtu.be/ujDvLgLf48w New York State politics, Tuesday, May 10, 2011, courtesy of YNN’s Nick Reisman. God help the Republic.

    Cell phones will be required to carry homeland security emergency text messages beginning next year, according a story that just broke. The project will begin in New York.  Seems like an excellent idea — as long as it’s not politically abused.  Monday, November 11th national security reminders?   Hopefully not.

The Obama Administration should stop talking about the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound for its own good. With every passing day it is revealing details of the action — in a clear effort to keep the story going — that do not have to be made public. Those details are causing problems for allies […]

House Speaker John A. Boehner threw down the gauntlet at an Economic Club of New York dinner tonight, calling for trillions of dollars in federal budget cuts in exchange for House Republican votes to raise the debt limit. Tonight’s statement vastly ups the ante on the upcoming debt ceiling vote. What was beginning to be […]