Archive for November, 2005

Peter Drucker R.I.P.

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

Business and management guru Peter Drucker has passed away at the age of 95. The business guru market is stuffed with bogus bloviators, but Drucker was the real thing, a true pioneers with innovative ideas and approaches. As a kid I read the Drucker books in my dad’s bookshelf and that experience helped form my [...]

God gave rock ‘n’ roll to you, and also science

Friday, November 11th, 2005

Is there any doubt that Intelligent Design is little more than an attempt to end-around creationism into our classrooms? Worse yet: Into our science classrooms. It must be stopped. This is not about whether or not God created Earth and man but about the integrity and, frankly, usefulness of science. To call I.D. science would [...]

Veterans Day: From one generation to the next – the never-ending heroism, sacrifice, and service of American soldiers

Friday, November 11th, 2005

Today we celebrate Veterans Day. Some can trace their soldier ancestors all the way back to the Revolutionary War, others to the trenches of WWI in France, or the bloodsoaked islands of the Pacific Ocean, or the snow-covered mountains of Korea, or the jungles of Vietnam. As we remember and celebrate our heroes of the [...]

The NBA doesn’t suck – you do

Friday, November 11th, 2005

That’s what the author of this article wants you to believe. I don’t know about the state of the NBA other than this: Team USA sucks a** against other countries. Besides, you’re not going to convert me to basketball by slamming football.

New England Patriots pancaked by vastly superior Indianapolis Colts

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

I don’t think too many fans seriously had expected the New England Patriots to put up much of a fight against the grotesquesly talented and quite possibly peaking Indianapolis Colts in last night’s Monday Night Football game at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro. The Colts are a near-complete team while the Patriots play with an offense [...]

Boston rewards Mayor Tom Menino for doing Job No. 1

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Boston’s Mayor Tom Menino was re-elected in an expected 2-1 landslide victory over the thanks-for-making-this-look-like-a-democracy challenger. The numbers suggest that the Mayor is highly popular, but I rather doubt that that is the case. More likely, he’s being rewarded for sucessfully having done what is the most important job for any big-city American mayor. That [...]

The difference between people and voters

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

Because of years of high levels of immigration, Boston has a non-white majority since sometime in the late 1990′s. Yet most of the city’s politics is dominated by whites. If you read the Boston Globe’s coverage, you might well come away with the impression that the white politicians are using dirty tricks to supress non-white [...]

Keif halik indeed

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

It starts off like this. It eventually ends up like this. Muslim immigration is a bad idea and no amount of wishful thinking can change that. By the way, in this article, it only takes the Globe (or AP’s correspondent, to be precise) 12 paragraphs to at least suggest that maybe the rioters are Muslim [...]