We’ve all heard the mantra, “Make the rich pay their fair share!” President Obama and Democrats have picked up on this popular opinion, saying that they want the rich to foot most of the bill for government programs and paying off the debt. However, not everybody agrees with this sentiment, and as an observer it can be hard to tell who is right as neither … Continue reading Do the rich pay their fair share?

Across the United States, thousands, if not millions, of people suffer from a sociopathic behavioral pattern know as the Hipster Complex. Said complex persuades the believer into thinking they are not a hipster when in reality they are. The Hipster Complex is self-perpetuating. One denies one’s hipster-ness, which forces the hipster further down through the rabbit hole into a wonderland complete with Myspace profiles and … Continue reading The hipster complex

Fifty years ago this August, in quiet, cool, Cambridge, Mass., a Mr. L.C.R. Licklider of MIT put pen to paper and, in a memo, recorded a dream. The contents of this memo would one day become computer scientist Licklider’s legacy, and this legacy; our way of life. The little dream that Lick recorded on that night was of an “Intergalactic Computer Network”, a global network … Continue reading The galactic network