Choke on it, baby!

from Macworld:
Apple now bigger than IBM
Apple has become the most valuable computer maker in the world

Greetings from North Aztlan*

* See here.

Spam Killer

Real punishment: Russian Viagra spammer murdered

The Hunt

I ride my bike to and from the train station for my commute. This morning, I chased a fox down the road for about 300 feet, after which it veered off into the bushes.

I wish I'd had a hunting horn. And some hounds.

The Krug Observes...

Mark Crispin Miller, the author of “The Bush Dyslexicon,” once made a striking observation: all of the famous Bush malapropisms — “I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family,” and so on — have involved occasions when Mr. Bush was trying to sound caring and compassionate.

By contrast, Mr. Bush is articulate and even grammatical when he talks about punishing people; that’s when he’s speaking from the heart. The only animation Mr. Bush showed during the flooding of New Orleans was when he declared “zero tolerance of people breaking the law,” even those breaking into abandoned stores in search of the food and water they weren’t getting from his administration.

RTWT:
Conservatives Are Such Jokers - New York Times

Don't Nitpick The Numbers

The numbers are a smokescreen, a diversion. Who cares if deaths are slightly up or slightly down; if the Pentagon is right or Petraeus is right. That was not the goal of The Surge®; it was supposed to let the Maliki government make significant political progress. This has not happened and it will not happen. The Surge® has failed. It does not matter who's body counts are right. My guess is that Petraeus and the Pentagon both have it wrong. And O'Hanlon is a Useful Idiot.

Think Progress » O’Hanlon Defends His Old Friend Petraeus, ‘Convinced’ Pentagon Is Wrong On Iraq Stats