Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt

American craft brewery hops across the pond

People may bitch about American beer, and in the main they are right. That said, we do great microbrews and apparently are now exporting the notion to Europe.

Revisiting The Constitution’s ‘Birthright Citizenship’ : NPR

First conservatives wanted to be the only ones who could decide who were patriotic Americans. Now they want to pick and choose who can be American citizens.

There is something very, very wrong with these cretins.

Forget 65, Americans should retire earlier | Marketplace From American Public Media

I finally got to listen to all of this story today. In short, if rich people paid payroll taxes like the rest of us, there wouldn’t *be* a Social Security problem.

Also, this story about how best to save for your retirement.

The Rachel Maddow Show – Prison companies could profit from Arizona’s immigration bill

Now we get to the bottom of it. Jan Brewja and her racist Republicans can’t just be bigoted bastards for free. Apparently they are into full concentration camp mode, hoping to turn a profit from jailing people based on the color of their skin.

America Goes Dark – Paul Krugman

Krugman covers the trend in many municipalities to turn off the lights and tear up the roads to save money. He considers why the government should be bailing out our towns instead of capitalists.

China is pouring billions into infrastructure and we can’t even keep our roads paved. Guess why we’re losing our place in the world.

The First Church of Robotics – Jaron Lanier

Lanier is normally a really weird boy but he is dead on in this critique over how we are developing robotics.

Robots, droids, whatever are tools. They may evolve past that someday but we may not be responsible for that. They aren’t toys, nor should they be dumbed down so people think they are cute. That should be a marketing decision, not a design one.