This post over at Get Religion got me thinking, and very confused. Apparently, in a recently released Pew Forum poll, twenty-one of those who call themselves atheists stated that they believe in God. Eight percent of atheists are absolutely certain God exists.
Now, I always thought of the word atheist as meaning what nearly any dictionary [...]

Techmeme linked me to this amazing Bill Gates e-mail rant. It’s gratifying to know that even the creator of the operating system finds it infuriating, especially when it just took me 10 minutes to reconnect my old laptop to my 802.11g (WiFi) network. I mistyped the WEP key, allegedly, either in the first box or [...]

Lou Dobbs has, apparently, finally flipped. He thinks Bush should be impeached for the recent salmonella outbreak.
Hat tip: Power Line.

Redstate has a post by Pejman Yousefzadeh, Barack Obama: That Burkean Chicagoan, that I found very interesting and right on the money. I think Obama’s association with the University of Chicago has somehow been widely interpreted as a signal that he is actually somewhat conservative, or at least moderate, in a somewhat Burkean sense. This [...]

The Associated Press wants to charge bloggers $12.50 to quote five words from AP articles. See this rate chart for the evidence. I’m not sure which is more frustrating - that the AP has so little respect for the value of a free exchange of information in a free society, that they have so little [...]

I think this puts it clearly.

Economics professor Greg Mankiw shares some interesting thoughts, citing Paul Krugman, on why Bush’s tax cuts may result in smaller government in the next administration than we would get otherwise. This is likely true, no matter which candidate wins. Krugman, however, calls this a “poison pill,” a way of sabotaging a takeover or transfer of [...]

Thankfully, the Republican party, for all its failings in the last few years, has still some concept of fundamental principles of economics. The Senate blocked a windfall profits tax on oil companies, a tax much like many of the taxes that prolonged the Great Depression in America long past its end elsewhere. Thank goodness for [...]

I detailed here the problems I had trying to craft a script-based backup solution using vshadow and robocopy. I never did figure it out, even after a BIOS upgrade and hours and hours on various forums. I ended up downloading a trial of SyncBack SE, which has worked very well so far, even with open [...]

Obama and others have, of course, been saying to any who will listen that a McCain presidency would be the equivalent of a Bush third term. I dispute that on the merits; neither man is perfect, but there are very big differences in their political views and attitudes. A more amusing rebuttal came to light, [...]