For all of the pundits out there who continue to try to convince us that the current administration has done a great job with the economy, let me take a moment to remind them of some simple numbers: When Bill Clinton took over office in 1993 the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at 3,301.11. When […]

There’s a blog post up from Robert Bowling, the Community Manager for game developer Infinity Ward titled, “They Wonder Why People Don’t Make PC Games Anymore” which, of course, blames everything on piracy. It’s more garbage from a developer that expects everyone to roll wheel barrows of money up to their door for the least […]

There’s news out today regarding an eight year study conducted by leading doctors that shows that 25% of heart attack victims end up waiting an hour or more to see a doctor in our emergency rooms. The average wait for these patients, each with the highest level of potential fatality, was 14 minutes. I suspect […]

My friend Dave called on Saturday to see if I wanted to go to the movies and offered to pick up the tab. That’s hard to turn down. He decided he wanted to see “The Orphanage” and I was game even though I’d just seen it the night before. My view of the movie didn’t […]

First of all, happy new year. Not sure what 2008 will bring but if nothing else it will bring a lot of political commercials. Oh, wait… That’s not a good thing. Oh well. Anyway, I’ve been going round-and-round with a technology advisor’s group I belong to. This group is stocked with well-off, staunch conservatives who […]

The RIAA, in its infinite wisdom, has now decided to go after one Jeffrey Howell arguing that ripping songs from a legally purchased CD is illegal. My first question is how the hell did Mr. Howell get “caught”? Anyway, this entire issue is a subterfuge to the main point that most consumers have no awareness […]

The Mitchell Report is out and it set the sporting world on fire. It unmasked a number of players as having taken part in steroid abuse but, then again, not nearly as many as was rumored to be included. I wanted to be interested in this story but I just couldn’t get myself to care. […]

Now that I’m getting older I find that I have these flashes of long-past memories that remind me of events and experiences now nearly forgotten. Just in case the ever-shrinking world happens to reach this person, I wanted to let an old Army roommate know about what happened after we parted ways. Among others assigned […]

My background is in game development having owned the first (and largest at the time) game testing company for 13 years. On the personal side I’ve been a gamer in squads and clans going back to their birth. On the audio side I’ve been involved from the very first days of PC audio. I currently […]

Well, I’ve finally done it. After years of resisting it, I just got my own hosted website. I’m still not sure what I’ll do with it but for now it’ll just be a launching pad for this blog (which you can get directly at https://slashcomment.com) and maybe my family tree. I wouldn’t have bothered if […]

Former chief liar or White House press secretary Scott McClellan is finally writing a book and in it he specifically points to George Bush, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Andrew Card as all having full knowledge that they were sending McClellan out to, as he states it, unknowingly lie about the involvement of Rove and […]

I’ve decided Congress should go ahead and declare war. They should declare it because this enemy strikes fear into the hearts of every American. It’s an insidious enemy that strikes without warning, without fear, without any heart or morality. It doesn’t strike with the backing of a government. It destroys families and bankrupts many it […]