Archive | April, 2009

No Cheap Canadian Meds for My Kitty

22 April 2009

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Something is dreadfully wrong when I can use the internet to easily order all sorts of prescription medications, including tightly controlled substances, as well as the human growth hormones and such stuff (if email and comment spam is to be believed). Yet I cannot easily order prescription medicine my cat takes daily. My vet writes the [...]

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Social Security Crowd Big on Protesting Government Spending

17 April 2009

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Look at those photos of tax day protests — those anti-Obama “tea party” events to protest taxes, government bailouts and big spending budget proposals. Did you ever notice how the faces in the crowds are mostly retirees who are the benefactors of the biggest government entitlements ever: Social Security and Medicare?   .

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Irony Café: Steak Fry

10 April 2009

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Another meal at the “Irony Café:”   we went to a huge steak fry on Good Friday. Heathens have more fun.

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Cyberspies! Hackers! Russians! Chinese! Oh My!

10 April 2009

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I’m a sucker for a story that uses the words “spies,” “hackers,” “Chinese” and “Russian” in the same article. The WSJ ran an interesting article about cyberspies penetrating our electrical grid (despite the fact that the article did not live up to its alarmist headline “Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated by Spies.” Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. [...]

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