http://www.nowhere-fast.net/index.php I'm Tom Stachowitz and this is my site. Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:02:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Everyone's still talking about the VP debate as if it actually mattered.  Good lord - the only way that it would have mattered would have been if one of the VP candidates spontaneously combusted on live TV.  That would have caused quite a stir. In the meantime, it appears as though ... http://www.nowhere-fast.net/index.php/2008/10/03/the-magic-of-money/ Well, the two VP candidates have officially finished their debate.  It was stunningly mundane and completely expected.  Palin had her bar set so low that her appearance would have been considered a success had she managed only to not mutter incoherently and drool over herself while Biden could only have ... http://www.nowhere-fast.net/index.php/2008/10/02/stunning-revelations/ It looks as though Texas is following in Florida's footsteps as the next battleground state for the teaching of intelligent design along with evolution in the science class.  That's not a good thing to do, Texas.  If you keep this up then people might start messing with you, and we ... http://www.nowhere-fast.net/index.php/2008/10/01/note-to-self-mess-with-texas/ Yes, the economy is in a freefall and yes, the government failed to find a workable solution and yes, politicians are all trying to score political points by blaming everyone else even as place collapses around them but the important news is that the SpaceX rocket finally worked!  And next ... http://www.nowhere-fast.net/index.php/2008/09/29/buy-space-bonds/ It's a rather sad commentary on the recent economic woes that when I see a commercial for a financial institution I find it ironically funny rather then annoying. http://www.nowhere-fast.net/index.php/2008/09/28/small-thought-for-the-day/ I'm not going to talk about the content of tonight's debate.  Plenty of people are doing that already.  I do want to talk about the presentation, though. I watched the debate on CNN and they had presented the event in an interesting format.  In the center of the screen was the ... http://www.nowhere-fast.net/index.php/2008/09/26/debatacle/ Today I would like to list some words that have had their meanings forever changed by presidential politics. Maverick. Hope. Barracuda.* Change. There should be some sort of process by which the general public decides what words can and can not be used in campaigns.  Some sort of general tally that accurately aggregate the will ... http://www.nowhere-fast.net/index.php/2008/09/25/a-very-short-list/ So McCain wants to suspend the campaigns and postpone the debate in order to deal with the financial crisis.  As is normal Republicans are praising it as the act of a true leader and Democrats are decrying it as the act of a desperate partisan politician.  The truth, as is ... http://www.nowhere-fast.net/index.php/2008/09/24/debate-no-bate/ I wish that I knew more about the economy.  I've never been much interested in the nitty gritty details of how the movement of wealth actually works, something that really has been working to my detriment over the past few years.  The difficult thing about situations like the one that ... http://www.nowhere-fast.net/index.php/2008/09/22/i-dont-know-enough/ I recently watched the unrated cut of Live Free or Die Hard and it was a substantially better movie then the PG-13 theatrical release.  Why?  Well, the answer is very simple and it goes to the core of the changes they made between the two releases.  See, in the unrated ... http://www.nowhere-fast.net/index.php/2008/09/21/on-dieing-and-hardness/