Tuesday 17 July 2012
don’t let it rest on the president’s desk
catagories: America, graphic design
Friday 6 July 2012
instructions to applicant
Thursday 14 June 2012
as seen on tv
catagories: America, graphic design, health and medicine, lifestyle
Thursday 7 June 2012
overseas telegram
Here’s a bit of typically nannying that strikes me like those Friday afternoon conscientious bureaucrat emergencies that necessarily wait until just before quitting-time and the weekend because to be unburdened and shared freely because it took the problem-holder all week to perfect it:
Wednesday 30 May 2012
bootstrap or birthright
Wednesday 23 May 2012
chinese fire-drill
Cornered with prospects of more market bubbles (a dot-com bust redux of 1999 and 2008 after a less than stellar performance of a networking platform that’s only, but, not merely, the sum of its user-generated antics), aspersions are quick to be cast out, like so many throwing-stars and there are the usual targets, scapegoats.
catagories: America, economic policy, labour
Monday 21 May 2012
sock puppet or propagaะda
catagories: ๐ง , America, foreign policy, language
Thursday 17 May 2012
serfdom or golden thread
catagories: America, economic policy, foreign policy, labour, lifestyle, networking and blogging
Monday 7 May 2012
ways and means or checks and balances
catagories: America, foreign policy
Wednesday 18 April 2012
three-letter initialism
catagories: America, economic policy, foreign policy, transportation, travel
Monday 16 April 2012
Thursday 15 March 2012
rico sUAVe
Saturday 28 January 2012
plagerize, bowdlerize
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, ๐ฅธ, ๐ง , America, networking and blogging, revolution
Friday 20 January 2012
talons or red-herring/black-flag
It is indefensible to earn fortunes by giving away the property of others, like the group of individuals behind a popular file-sharing web had accomplished. The vicious attacks and entrapment on the part of Federales, pressed into service by Hollywood who in turned leaned on international law-enforcement to make the apprehensions, is going to extremes.
catagories: ๐ฅธ, America, foreign policy, networking and blogging
Wednesday 18 January 2012
byzantine
catagories: ๐ง , America, economic policy, foreign policy, networking and blogging
Tuesday 10 January 2012
penny dreadful
catagories: ๐ง , America, Europe, foreign policy
Monday 12 December 2011
titanomachy or primus inter pares
In a dispatch from the Swiss edition of thelocal, the central government of the Helvetic Confederacy in Bern is reluctant to share (otherwise befriend America) access to its electronic criminal records database with the United States. The arrangement is not reciprocal, mutual as Switzerland isn’t taking on the whole onerous burden of America’s security apparatus but Swiss authorities are expected to surrender all the vital information of its citizens, in case a native ne’er-do-well ever decides to visit the States, and the only thing that the Swiss people are getting in return for this openness and trust for the US to safeguard its information better than the US can keep track of its own is the right to travel to the States under the Visa-Waiver program, a government web-site that supposedly announces one’s plans and intentions well ahead of time but despite the publicity, one is asked the same stock questions by countless airport personnel coming and going, prodded and frisked just the same.
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, ๐ฅธ, America, economic policy, foreign policy, transportation
Sunday 11 December 2011
blue-plate special or everything’s up-to-date in kansas city
Sunday 4 December 2011
sopapilla oder net neutralitรคt
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, ๐ฅธ, America, language, networking and blogging
Thursday 1 December 2011
the other shoe
The last and latest insult is the natural consequence of unrelenting attacks on the arts and sciences in the States but is now assuming its final form with the failure of the Congressional Super-Committee to trim the government budget. I suspect that no one had much faith that the Super-Committee would succeed, so some analysts saying that the failure was a good fiscal outcome as automatic reductions have been put into motion is not a very genuine endorsement. Perhaps brute enforcement will force some choices and some discipline but programs targeted on contingency of this breakdown are, besides social programs, funding for art programs and research and development. Squandered inspiration and neglected imagination are intolerable wastes, and these proposals, in triplicate, even if overstated, are dangerous and would generate little in return, regardless who champions them. What gain, anticipated and delivered, could even begin to replace what's been lost? The torment in the end, like an overbearing and favoured step-sister however, may be just as listless and a paper-tiger as the tormentor.