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Lets make this easy… Any comment I don’t think contributes to the discussion gets tossed when and if I notice it or if it comes up in moderation. The process for deciding if a comment meets with the criteria in #1 is something called “judgment”. In short, there are no hard and fast rules you [...]

Somewhere around 20 years ago the Soviet Union finally had the good sense to realize it had failed. This realization was not inevitable, the the underlying failure was. When the wall finally fell, I was a trained tank crewman in the US military who had spend the previous 3 years under the realization that war [...]

I have been pretty quiet of late, frankly I burned out on it all after the election as did so many others. This new year is going to be a good one here at Herdwatching and I hope it will be so for you as well. So relax and enjoy, I will be back to [...]

Once again we are here on 9/11 As I look back on the events of that morning and my reactions I realize nothing has changed. I still stand by my thoughts of the time.  I will keep this entry short, because frankly it does not need to be very wordy. Even now, after 7 years, [...]

Yup. I created a Twitter account for political commentary. Go ahead and follow it. You know you want to.

You know that hot guy or girl you see on the street? They have no soul and they probably work at least part time as the slave puppets of the extra-dimensional aliens that feed off of your energy. Heck, they might not even be real humans at all! Yes indeed once again a minute or [...]

As I write this it it July 03, 2008. This post is not a long, coherent essay but rather the expression of a number of thoughts that have been swirling for a few weeks… brought to a point by a piece of writing by Chris Satullo over at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Understand me clearly… I [...]

As you can see, I have been making some changes here at Herdwatching. I am strongly considering an audio or audio-video podcast component to the mix and have been breaking out into categories instead of just tagging. I spent some time evaluating whether I want to try and be more “professional” (read stodgy) and put [...]

The Herdwatcher has his eye on many flocks. This morning we turn our attention to the pundit-sphere. There are a lot of folks who make their living passing tech news among each other and others. They hold a position somewhere between political commentator and town crier. Of these, one of the ones I like best [...]

Warning: May trigger people with no sense of humor and a need to be offended. A good friend of mine gave me this quote in IM… “Scientists have discovered that all women will , at some point, contain intelligent DNA. Unfortunately 95% of them will spit it out.” I don’t care who you are, that’s [...]