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Category Archives: Rants

Hillary: Stop.

Last week NPR aired a brief interview with Hillary Clinton.

This interview made me furious.

Here’s the thing: I used to be happy about the possibility of voting for either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. In January and early February, I listened to her in the debates and thought: “You know? Either way this goes, [...]

Superdelegates Suck

From the Washington Post:

The potential for superdelegates to play a critical role has some party leaders worried that the situation could lend the appearance that the nominee will be selected by insiders rather than by rank-and-file voters.

“Could lend the appearance”, eh? Damn straight it could lend the appearance. One might even say that [...]

Verboten: “The Work”

No longer allowed: calling theater “the work”.
As in, “I know you’re having a rough day, but it’s time to leave the baggage at the rehearsal room door…let’s stay focused on the work, okay?”
It’s just pretentious. The only reason you do it is because you’re unsure that what you’re doing qualifies as work. Look, [...]

Someone please kill PayPal

Dear PayPal,
I am trying to set up an account. But your system will not allow me to set up an account with my own name.
You have a record of a transaction that my wife made, and apparently since we share the same address you assume that any account coming from this address [...]

The War on the Unexpected

On November 1st, Bruce Schneier published his essay “The War on the Unexpected“. It made the rounds online, and it well deserved the attention. I won’t start copying in bits and pieces of that text, because you really owe it to yourself to read the whole thing. 
I didn’t link to the essay at [...]