thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | January 22, 2010
There is a certain class of people who combine stupidity, deep-seated insecurity with a pathological need to control. The worst place to put these people is in a position where they are charged with keeping people safe.
Case in point: We have a report (found here) of an unnamed vice principal at Millennial Tech Magnet Middle [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 30, 2009
Someone has again scratched a pet peeve of mine, that old pseudo-literary bugbear “relevance.” As in, SF is losing it, and it better get some quick or else be declared “irrelevant.” This is a bit of an oversimplification of the essay by Jetse de Vries, Should SF Die? But it pretty much encapsulates my problem [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 11, 2009
Internet trolls are fascinating creatures. They live in the nooks and crannies of the internet, eager to pounce on any unwary passer-by. I find the psychology fascinating, as trolls almost always advocate a political point of view, and do it exceedingly badly. So badly that one is often left wondering if they [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 8, 2009
Scientific research is based on the idea of review, so others can reproduce your results. Peer review should not be about insuring a pre-determined outcome. It certainly shouldn’t be about intimidation of reporters. Is shouldn’t be about politicians defining what the “real science” is. Especially when they’re repeatedly wrong about it. Who really should be [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 4, 2009
Michael Wolf decided to make a complete asshat of himself.
I’ll let you ponder the following thesis:
HarperCollins does not really believe Sarah Palin has written a valuable book—or even that it is really a book, not in the way that HarperCollins has historically understood books, or in the way that people have counted on HarperCollins to [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 30, 2009
While I was out, it seems we found out the science on Global Warming is a lot less settled than Al Gore would like us to believe. At the risk of being called the moral equivalent of a Holocaust denier, I can’t say that this particularly surprises me. When we talk about climate scientists (the [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 4, 2009
Short little theory about recent electoral history that no one in the establishment is willing to entertain because it is just too scary. We have the trouncing of democratic governors and it’s announced as a fundamental shift in the electorate, away from the fundamental shift in the electorate back in 2008. I might posit the [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 26, 2009
Apparently the GOP felt is was behind the curve when it came to the rape-apologist bandwagon. Hell, if I parse this right, the amendment that these 30 asinine twits voted against wouldn’t make it illegal for a company to make a contract saying you can’t sue if their employees gang-rape you, it just said that [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 6, 2009
Democrats should be realizing now that Obama’s dearth of experience, especially executive political experience, was probably not as big an issue in the campaign as it should have been. I’m sure, at the time, everyone who voted for him assured themselves that he was going to be fine, he’d just appoint old Clinton people to [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 5, 2009
In 1983 Steven King wrote the novel Chistine, about a car that was possessed. A vehicle that was, in essence, evil. I now realize that Mr. King, more than likely, owned at one point a vehicle much like my 96 Ford F-150. Like some people, some vehicles just seem to be born bad. Ford trucks [...]
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