Tim Cook is the man...

Check out this article by Tim Cook in today's WaPo -- speaking for Apple and many others, including me.

Spring has sprung...

Sorry I haven't posted for a while.  We were up at the Tahoe/Donner place over the weekend.  In the past mid-March always provided snow in our front yard.  But for the last two years there has been very little snow.  So here is what the front yard looked like last weekend.

Yep those are daffodils blooming about a month or so too soon.  But then of course there is no such thing as climate change or global warming.

Toles nails it again...

Is Obama Care a disaster?  With tongue firmly in cheek, Toles thinks so...

Beautiful words

Ran across something that I just had to share: beautiful words.  I like 'em all but I think "vellichor" is the coolest: "(n) the strange wistfulness of used bookshops."  Lest you think it's something made up or totally phony check this corroborating source.

Conservatives unmasked...

Been out of town the last few days.  Now that I'm back I wanted to give you something to chew on.  Start chewing right here.  Alternet is becoming one of my favorite political sites.