Ayn Rand is an Asshole

Yeah, I said it. I usually try to be fair and open minded, but that chick teaches a really ugly philosophy. I also prefer not to result to cursing at anyone, even dead people, if I can help it. But there’s no getting around the basic fact that Ayn Rand’s Read more…

Why I Like Taxes

Over the last week I’ve been trying to iron out what the tax rules will be for me as I go into the book writing business. I’ll have no income of my own this year, so haven’t thought about. But with an actual plan in place for getting the book Read more…

Occupy Houston

Tomorrow kicks of the beginning of Houston’s participation in the OccupyTogether movement. TIME: Thursday, October 6 – Ongoing LOCATION: Neet at Market Square Park at 8:30am on October 6. Pick up a sign if you don’t have one. Meet your fellow protesters, and get ready to march! At 9:00am we march to J.P. Morgan Chase Tower downtown. Read more…

Updates on Occupy Wall Street

Here are some new updates on Occupy Wall Street: First ‘Official’ statement. There are more on the way including 1) A declaration of demands. 2) Principles of Solidarity  3) Documentation on how to form your own Direct Democracy Occupation Group 700 were arrested on Saturday Some Marines are planning to join Read more…

Occupy Wall Street

I’ve been following the Occupy Wall Street movement since they started back on Sept 17th. I’ve mostly been observing, I did study Political Science as an undergrad major, so things like this fascinate me. I’ve taken time to watch some of the live streaming of the protest. When I first Read more…

Heavenly Palace-1

Apparently, the Chinese are starting the process of developing their own space station. That kind of diminishes the status of the International Space Station we currently have. So it gets away from the spirit of international cooperation. And the name of their first testing module, Heavenly Palace-1 , is just cooler. Read more…

Short Sightedness

I was thinking recently about how short sighted political decisions are. Specifically, I’m talking here about NASA. The shuttle program, after 30years of flying the first reusable vehicle, ended this year. There were a few screw ups (Challenger, Columbia), but that was 2 out of 135. That’s a 1.5% failure Read more…

I can haz jobs plan?

President Obama gave a speech last night. It was a good speech, delivered with the confident and charismatic way that I haven’t seen from Obama in awhile. Here’s somethings I want to highlight “The question is whether, in the face of an ongoing national crisis, we can stop the political Read more…

Jon Stewart Explains It All

Jon Stewart has done it again. He has taken the anti-tax, anti-poor, Ayn Randesq statements that many conservative politicians and media pundits and distilled it down to the utter absurdity that it is. The fact that there are so many people that think that a poor family owning a refrigerator makes Read more…