Today, one year after sharing a similar report in 2008, I share a new oversight report issued this week on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.). Inside, it contains candidates for what an annual award I’ve decided to call “The Heistman Trophy.” Among those, descriptions of [...]
Ten ‘Heistman Trophy’ Finalists Named
December 11th, 2009 · No Comments
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Is Smoker-in-Chief Giving Up Cigarettes Today?
November 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment
A cloud is hanging over the Oval Office as Americans wonder whether or not Smoker-in-Chief Barack Obama is giving up cigarettes during today’s Great American Smokeout. Truth be told, one would hardly know the event that takes place annually on the third Thursday of November is taking place today. As of this posting at noon [...]
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Flashback: What BMW Looked Like Years Ago
September 3rd, 2009 · 4 Comments
After reading the UK Telegraph article, How 20 popular websites looked when they launched, I thought it might be interested to show what this blog looked like in its early days. Below are Bob McCarty Writes home page screen shots from November 2006 and July 2007. Let me know what you think. Has it improved? [...]
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My, My, It Seems My Gmail Has Died? (Update)
September 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
While working on my laptop about 15 minutes ago, I decided to check my Gmail account and a hit song by Don McLean came to mind. Read the parody lyrics below and see if you can figure out which song they match: My, my, it-seems-my Gmail has died? I was working on my laptop when [...]
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Google Gives Reason for Blocking MassResistance
July 25th, 2009 · No Comments
Editor’s Note: Thanks to a Google Alert for the terms “Fox News” and “Josh Miller”, a Fox News reporter who interviewed me four months ago (see this BMW post for details), I came across a post published yesterday on Craigslist in Boston that caught my attention. Posted by someone associated with the Massachusetts-based MassResistance blog, it [...]
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Who’s Helping Obama Break Transparency Pledge?
February 18th, 2009 · No Comments
An experience with Google this morning caused me to wonder whether or not the search giant is involved in helping President Barack Obama break his transparency pledge. Soon after reading an interesting piece, The Dying Art of the Crime Blotter, in The New York Times, the journalism-trained killer inside me wondered how journalism might be [...]
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Machines Might Already Be Smarter Than People
February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
A news release issued yesterday by the Lifeboat Foundation touted the launch of Singularity University as “a new school for futurists in Silicon Valley to prepare scientists for an era when machines become smarter than people.” Unfortunately, it appears the effort might be too late. I reached this conclusion after following an Instapundit tip and [...]
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