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And then it dawned upon me. In the same way that VisiCalc was the so-called “killer app” that heralded the concept of a spreadsheet and ignited the business computing boom, I figure that another software system that is waiting to be launched as another “killer app” would be called Scapegoat 1.0. […] Its purpose would be to be shift the blame away from yourself in any political fallout situation to another targeted faction with point-and-click ease. »

September 11th, 2005

When political whores take the long view, you know they’re running scared. James Wolcott

« Step right up and watch how it’s done—baldly and without any shame. See your president, with the stroke of a pen, strip construction workers of the federal wage guarantees that have helped to lift them out of poverty in one of the most poverty-stricken regions of the country.