Archive for June 2008
Affirmative Action is Dead
Posted by: duckandgather on: June 17, 2008
Two interesting stories of late. First, Obama’s Father’s Day rant telling absentee black dads to grow a responsibility bone:
Second, try a Google search for “obama monkey”. You’ll find a cottage industry of people trying to make a buck off of Obama’s popularity, and the historical white person’s negative association comparing black [...]
Landslide
Posted by: duckandgather on: June 16, 2008
I had drinks a few weeks ago in San Francisco with a fellow highly educated, liberal-leaning techy. I told him I’d love to take some betting action against someone who would pick McCain in November (I would pick Obama). He said he wouldn’t take that action, so we moved the conversation over to whether or [...]
Corporate Cheating
Posted by: duckandgather on: June 16, 2008
Just got off the phone with my sister. We chatted about the NBA game last night which was the subject of my previous blog posting. I talked about how that game, and the stinky way that it ended, was no different than what has been happening in our culture in other domains. The core [...]
David Stern and the Big Lie
Posted by: duckandgather on: June 15, 2008
Top story in the NBA world over the last couple of days: the FBI has been asking former and current officials about NBA ref Dick Bavetta. They’re looking for evidence supporting the obvious: Dick has been fixing playoff games for the NBA for many years.
Today was Game 5 of the NBA finals. Guess who shows [...]
Anatomy of the NBA “Conspiracy”
Posted by: duckandgather on: June 12, 2008
Postscript: Just got back from my father-in-law’s after watching Game 4. Wonderful game. No reffing issues. Just performances, and lack thereof, from the players. Glad that the game overshadowed the criminal Mr. Stern.
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Reading various comments and articles on the former NBA ref Tim Donaghy situation is a study in the infantile mind of the American [...]
NBA – I Love This Game! :)
Posted by: duckandgather on: June 11, 2008
Almost a year ago, I posted a hastily written essay entitled “Mr. Donaghy was Doing a Good Job“. The thesis of that essay was that Tim Donaghy, a former NBA referee arrested (and now convicted) of fixing NBA games on behalf of the mob, was anything but a simple case of a “rogue employee”. Instead, [...]
Obama Gonna Whack the Big Corporations
Posted by: duckandgather on: June 9, 2008
In late 2004, I made the following prediction:
The Democratic Party will either go the way of the Whigs, or undergo a profound metamorphosis whereby the current leadership of the party (DNC, the Clintons, U.S. Senators, etc.) is replaced with anti-Corporate leadership.
In late 2006, I made another prediction:
In November 2008, Barack Obama will be elected as [...]
President Obama Will “Take” the Internet “Highways”
Posted by: duckandgather on: June 2, 2008
Well, it’s been a long time since I felt compelled to blog. Today, I was doing some web-development as part of my One Man Incubator consulting business. Specifically, I was working on building a plugin for ratings. So I visited YouTube to see how they handle ratings. To do that, I just visited the home [...]
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