I wonder if people in blue states get as excited as folks in red states do about an 8% off sale. Because that's what a tax holiday really is.

Ha! I figured out something about the random file name generator at work: it's 16 bit; 0-9 and then a-f. Woot!

If you want a nation that is well-educated, then you need to make sure that that nation values education (on a level that's higher than merely monetary).

I think we should start calling money "free speech" instead.

If Star Trek were steam punk, Dr. Beverly Crusher would be a man

Instead of photographing fields, I should be painting them. Duh.

The only gold that a woman could dig from me is fool's gold.

If an organization is telling you how many jobs they've created, it probably means there are a lot of reasons why people don't like them.

You can't create a great democracy without idealists. You can't maintain a great democracy without pragmatists.

Leadership will always tend towards corruption. The issue isn't really whether Leadership is corrupt, but rather how much power the Ruled have to curb it.