A Bithead’s Christmas

Edtor’s note:

Once again as in years past, I’ve found my inbox filled with messages from longtime readers who wonder if I’m going to be re-posting “A Bithead’s Christmas”, and begging me to do so.

As I believe I’ve told

Algore, from Walter Russell Mead American Interest:

It must be as perplexing to his many admirers as it is frustrating to himself that a man of Vice President Gore’s many talents, great skills and strong beliefs is one

Does Dumbo really support privacy? From Jennifer Valentino-Devries, Wall Street Journal:

Sen. John Kerry, a senior Democrat, and technology giant Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday backed the Obama administration’s call for broad privacy legislation at a Senate hearing that also

Editor’s note:
We’ve been reposting this at BitsBlog for over a decade, now, each Christmas.  It’s among the most popular and requested posts we’ve ever had. It’s become a site tradition.

A Bithead’s Christmas

I find myself wanting to take

TSA stuck on stupid, TSA chief John Pistole, from CNN:

Well, I think the Israeli model, which a number of people have talked about, uses intelligence in a different way, profiling. And then if in terms of a

I notice that the most recent gamble of our tax money involves the Chevy Volt…

Keep in mind, this is the president who told us that the GM and Chrysler bailouts were an unvarnished success. What a lot of people

Thanks to the Cincinnati Business Courierfor including me in the “Technology Roundtable” insert in the June 18th, 2010 issue of the Courier!

This is the second time they have asked me to participate, check it out for some great

Harry S. Truman: “The buck stops here.”

Barack Hussien Obama: “The buck passes here.”

Roger Simon, Politico:

President Barack Obama said Friday that some members of Congress are being hypocritical when it comes to blaming the White House for

Liberal is synonym for stupid.   Dim witted Senators want to wreck economy to solve imaginary problem:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new Senate bill aimed at battling global warming would impose new limits on carbon dioxide pollution from

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7608153/New-speed-cameras-trap-motorists-from-space.html

From the article:
The cameras, which combine number plate reading technology with a global positioning satellite receiver, are similar to those used in roadworks.

So, GPS combined with the plate reading technology could essentially be used to watch you

Filibuster breaks out at Obama rally, Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post:

Toward the end of a question-and-answer session with workers at an advanced battery technology manufacturer, a woman named Doris stood to ask the president whether it was

Insight Communications unfortunately has decided to end all local programming in the Northern Kentucky market, and with that bad decision, ends a nearly 20 year run of the popular show “Northern Kentucky Magazine”, a local talk show that has served

The LA Times is reporting:

Art Clokey, the creator of the whimsical clay figure Gumby, died in his sleep Friday at his home in Los Osos, Calif., after battling repeated bladder infections, his son Joseph said. He was 88.

Clokey

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• A SECOND PLACE at OTB’s Caption Contest. Been a while since I’ve done anything with that, so It’s nice to see I