Rants from the Past
illustration by Ann Hess
I don’t know which is worse, fracking or data-mining. They’re both about the same thing – penetration. Only with fracking, it’s the earth that’s being penetrated, with data mining, it’s me.
Witness the lion tamer I read about in the National Enquirer who was mauled by his lion. It turns out he’d learned lion-taming through a correspondence course.
The I Ching Online had declared that the surgery would be miraculous because I was miraculous. In fact – well not in fact but In Ching – I am the transcendent spirit of the age.
The Oracle is known for her delusional optimism, but even she was hard put to find a pony in this week’s manure.
Cut to the second thing every romantic comedy needs, the montage: Earth and Man riding a carousel; gazing into a fire; taking long walks on the beach – oh, wait, the earth is the beach.
Rick Warren and the Middle Class vanished at the same time. Without a middle class there’s no one to embrace his middle class values. Brand Jesus doesn’t sell in a Broke America.
Scientists have to prove their Big Ideas. They have to run experiments and submit the results of those experiments to peer review. Not so Oracles.
Silicon Valley is stuck in an old mind-set, and the women they say the want, the ones smart enough for a career in hi-tech, are smart enough to know it.