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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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Why GM can’t survive

Posted on April 3, 2009 by sphyrnatude

Obama actually did it. He sent the automakers packing when they presented yet another “trust me, I know what I’m doing” proposal to justify wasting another big chunk of taxpayer payola.
What does this really mean, and why did the big O say no?
From what I’ve managed to gather, there were three main reasons for the [...]

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Automaker bailout and unions

Posted on March 19, 2009 by sphyrnatude

The economic bailout has been a major topic of call-in “news” shows or a bit now. I recently heard a very interesting set of opinions voiced by a worker int eh automotive industry, at one of the companies receiving a large amount of your tax dollars.
His opinion (summarized drastically) went something like this:

It is unfair [...]

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