On skeptics:
Pfft! Let them laugh. The more people laughing at me today, the fewer I'll have to compete with tomorrow.
-Feb 10, 2006
On the two party system:
Hate to break it to you, but to the rest of the world, it only looks like 2 right wing extremist parties, one religious, and one secular. And they *both* look like they are run out of the head offices of Lockheed Martin and Halliburton.
-Feb 21, 2006
Sure, I don't like Bush. I've never denied that. But I didn't like Clinton selling secrets to the Chinese and bombing asprin factories, either. It's not about "liking" one party over the other, it's about recognizing that BOTH parties are run by the same shadowy group of corporations and private money. Can democracy last through peak oil? It's been dead for years already. The facade is just finally becoming transparent enough for even the McMorons to see through it. Apparently it's not thin enough for all, though. Give it a few more years.
-Apr 05, 2006
On the possibility of civil war in Iraq:
The Americans will disappear into their hardened superbunkers, only poking their heads out when a pipeline needs to be repaired or a convoy needs to be protected, and to hell with the locals.
-Feb 24, 2006
On education:
Look at it another way. 83% of the people surveyed are too stupid to pose serious competition for resources.
I predict a prosperous future of picking the gold fillings out of the skulls of dead idiots.
-Mar 02, 2006
On American defense of Tiawan:
The US hasn't been able to defeat a "rag-tag band" of Iraqi insurgents after 3 years, and can't seem to find a 6 foot tall arab dragging a dialysis machine from cave to cave after *5* years. How are they going to protect Tiawan from a 3 million man standing army and some of the most sophisticated asymmetric anti-naval weaponry available?
-Mar 03, 2006
On opportunism:
How to flip a burger:
1) Go to New York and buy a Big Mac for 2 bucks
3) Go to New Orleans during a hurricane and sell said Big Mac for 12 bucks
-Mar 23, 2006
On abiotic oil:
At this point, the actual source of oil is academic. The earth is a closed system. And in a closed system, supply is limited by rate of reintroduction. It doesn't matter if it's made by decaying dinosaurs, abiotic mechanisms or little blue fairies farting it out. Any time the extraction rate exceeds the replenishment rate, you will have a peak and decline scenario.
-Apr 06, 2006
On nuclear proliferation:
When you live in a world where a highschool student can build a FUNCTIONING NUCLEAR REACTOR in his back yard, financed by his job flipping burgers, I think it's well past time to worry about the trading of nuclear information. The genie is out of the bottle, and anyone with a thousand bucks and some time can make a wish.
-Apr 19, 2006
Happy Canada Day, my friends.
