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    I’m an opinionated Grumpy Old Man. I enjoy the intellectual give and take that goes along with that, but have very little patience for stupid people (Note: there is a big difference between “stupid” and “educated”. Some of the stupidest people I’ve ever met have a PhD…). Beside arguing, I like to build things in almost any media. Right now I’m mostly building in wood, Lego, and a bunch of different electronic media. I teach in a number of different venues - from preschool all the way through graduate school. Subjects range from talmud to neuroscience to engineering.

    For fun, I like to bash people with swords (OK, so they’re made of foam. It’s still fun). Although I spend a lot of my time in a wheelchair, I manage to keep pretty active (Like bashing people with swords). I am a libertarian, and have a hard time finding anything good to say about government or politicians. OK, politicians might make good sausage, but that's about as good as it gets.

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A bit more about Swine Flu and media hype

Posted on May 22, 2009 by sphyrnatude

Well folks,
It’s been a few weeks, and the Killer Swine Flu pandemic has fizzled out into yet another overblown media hype fantasy. This raises two questions: why they hype, and what really happened?
1: why the hype?
This is too easy. Hype generates ratings, and ratings are what the media is all about. Of course, we COULD [...]

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On outing gay politicians

Posted on May 1, 2009 by sphyrnatude

Whoa Nellie! two posts in one day!
This one is brought on by comments from a friend at dinner last night, and is just too ironic to let slide.
turns out a bunch of gay rights activists in the D.C. area have taken to ‘outing’ their politician ‘clients’ if they vote against or oppose gay rights legislation. [...]

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Swine flu: Is it a real threat or just hype?

Posted on May 1, 2009 by sphyrnatude

Well, its been about a week since the whole swine flu kerfluffle started up.
We’ve learned a lot since then. The current ‘pandemic’ is the H1 N1 strain of influenza. It is about as virulent as most of the ‘normal’ seasonal flus. So far, it is about as deadly as the normal seasonal flu. Oh yeah, [...]

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