18 Wednesday Jan 2012
Posted in Technology
Like many of you, I’m strongly against the PIPA and SOPA bills in consideration (and at one point were seemingly rammed through and all-but-approved in a late night session) with the US Government.
I encourage all of you to join the fight and call, email, write and talk to your representatives to express your disappointment of the way this has been handled and the freedoms they’re toying with. Continue reading »
16 Friday Dec 2011
Posted in Politics
I’m cautiously cynical by nature, so I find it hard to believe much of what I see online and on TV at face value. As cynical as I am, I also prefer to do some research to legitimize my cynicism or prove it wrong, too.
A video has been burning up online today after a strange delayed viral effect. The video is of an event in May 2011, but given the latest sharing activity and comments you may have read, you’d be led to believe this just happened and is just another event in a string of highly-publicized events from the Occupy camps and their press machines since September 2011. Continue reading »
28 Thursday Oct 2010
Posted in Life
Normally when one approaches my window, I immediately slink in my seat, and if my window is opened, I’ll instinctively shut it. Nowadays you can never be too careful with people approaching your car without a clear intention.
This time, however, I happened to be at a Burger King. After I made my order at the menu board, I saw him trying to catch me before I drove to the pickup window. I zoomed past him in an attempt to avoid an all-too-typical question for spare change. Continue reading »
21 Sunday Sep 2008
Posted in Uncategorized
As we approach Election Day, I encourage you as I have in the past to check your candidate’s sources when their campaigns run ads or discuss topics in public.
Nobody can truly expect a candidate to be 100% accurate when they’re talking as they’re only humans, whom are prone to mistakes. However, with politics as it is, no candidate is honest all the time either, and they know it.
If you haven’t heard of Annenberg’s Political FactCheck, they’re a non-profit, independent resource to check campaign ads, speeches and other topics, exposing the truth behind them as best they can.
On their site, you’ll find detailed analysis of even the lengthiest of speeches as well as rebuttals of campaign ads you see on the TV.
Some of the recent topics they’ve discussed are:
As a reminder, please check your candidate’s facts as they tell them before using them in your everyday discussion, as you may find out, they’re either inaccurate, taken out of context or purely fictional.
Election Day, here we come…
