On a mailing list, someone suggested that no matter which candidate we elect in November, he or she will not be able to halt the decline of the dollar.
Paul Ciszek replied:
Imagine a foreign country called Dumfukistan. This country is inhabited by religious fanatics who believe that the world will end any day now. This [...]

The California Lottery is running advertisements claiming that over a million Californians win the Super Lotto Plus each month. Obviously their definition of “win” is different than mine. I don’t think it can be counted a “win” for the month unless the player is cash-positive for the total of all his or her [...]

I heard about that other guy that was moving out and needin’ all his stuff ta disappear quicklike, and advertised on Craigslist, and got rid of it all durn fast. That got me to thinkin’. I hafta move out of my present digs by noon on January 20 of oh-nine, and I’m far [...]

One of the earliest uses of punched card tabulating machines, the forerunner of modern computers, was the US Census, as described by Wikipedia:
[Herman] Hollerith built machines under contract for the US Census Bureau, which used them to tabulate the 1890 census in only one year. The 1880 census had taken eight years. [...] In [...]

AMD announced last year that they would publish the programming specs for their graphics chips.  Last September they started that, with register-level documentation on several chips.  While that was a good start, today they have made many of their customers who use Linux (and BSD) very happy by publishing the 3D programming specs for the [...]

The DNC ruled that because Florida and Michigan held their primaries earlier than party rules allow, Florida and Michigan delegates will not be allowed to vote at the convention. Apparently the party feels that the voters of those states should be disenfranchised because their representatives broke party rules. Now there’s a big controversy [...]

A friend tells me that at his son’s school, it would be a violation of school policy for a student to give valentines only to other students of his or her choice. If any are given, they must be given to the entire class.
So much for the First Amendment right to peaceably assemble. [...]

The people of Bluefields, Nicaraguan have improved their standard of living thanks to bales of cocaine washing ashore. I wonder if they’ve heard the Reverend Horton Heat’s song Bales of Cocaine?

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. explains that Ron Paul Has Already Won.
Ron Paul is the only “mainstream” candidate I would prefer over Barack Obama, but it seems unlikely that he’ll be able to win the Republican nomination.

Larry’s blog entry links to both a video and a transcript.