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Gubernatorial Prognostication
Scott and I were having a jolly good laugh at the fact that both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse “the Brain” Ventura were both governors as well as in the movie Predator. Then Scott pointed out that they were also together in The Running Man, at which point I freaked out. Something like this simply cannot…
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Masing for Congress?
I’m not ready to throw my massive political machine behind him yet, but Hans Masing is running for Congress. There are several things that I like about him, he’s an underdog and so I immediately have sympathy. He supports small business, his technology platform is close to mine (he supports the repeal of the DMCA…
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Ahnold
I have instituted a personal prohibition on California gubernatorial jokes, largely because the candidates are doing a good job of that themselves. That said, this video is too funny (audio is somewhat NSFW) to pass up. If Ahnold does get elected, I suspect he’ll be a big privacy advocate 🙂 (Thanks Ben!)
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Mideast Futures Market
The Pentagon is working on a futures market for people to step right up and place their bets on what’s going to happen in the Middle East. The market would work this way. Investors would buy and sell futures contracts — essentially a series of predictions about what they believe might happen in the Mideast.…