Author Archives: nick

In an article by Fareed Zakaria in the Washington Post, he states: Sarah Palin has a suggestion for how Barack Obama can save his Presidency. “Say he decided to declare war on Iran,” she said on Fox News this month. … Continue reading →

We are besieged with domestic crises. The health care crisis, the deficit crisis, the Social Security and Medicare crises, last, but far from least, the unemployment crisis. If we keep going on as we are, the consequences will be dire. … Continue reading →

I was the Technical Director of sfgate.com, the San Francisco Chronicle’s website, pretty much from its inception, from 1997 until 2003. I still have sfgate.com as my home page even though I moved from San Francisco to Tennessee over five … Continue reading →

When the war in Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein began, it was popular, and it had supporters on the left as well as the right. Many Democratic politicians voted for it, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Harry … Continue reading →

Creativity and self delusion. These are the unique marks of humanity, really just different names for the same thing. Human beings are the only animals capable of imagining things that do not exist. If being created in God’s image means … Continue reading →

This financial crisis has been a long time coming. It is a result of how our democratic (small d) politics works, on local, state, and national levels. Politicians on the left and, less so but still egregiously, on the right, … Continue reading →

This Abdulmutallab guy was on a terrorist watch list. I don’t care how much Janet Napolitano whines about there being 550,000 names on the list. So what? How many people are in the various databases that are accessed when you … Continue reading →

It’s the end of a decade, the 2001 Space Odyssey decade. That’s how I see it anyway. I first saw 2001, on acid, at the downtown theatre, I forget the name, just off Market Street in San Francisco, behind the … Continue reading →

I’m a computer programmer. I have been programming computers since 1966. My first programming job was at the Iowa State Highway Commission in Ames, Iowa. My first project was a computer model, similar in concept, if not complexity, to the … Continue reading →

It’s hard to dodge the temptation of schadenfreude these days, what with Obama’s unfortunate cameo at the Copenhagen Clown Convention, and the bi-partisan popular disgust at the secret, middle of the night, Democratic health care “reform” monstrosity. Not to mention … Continue reading →