http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/ 1 Timothy 2:9-15 en-us 2010-02-25T19:13:13-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006563.html So I hate the whole debate about health insurance for about a billion reasons. But first, I want to explain the concept of insurance so that I can stop yelling at the radio. Conceptually, insurance is basically splitting up a... Rants Vengeful Cynic 2010-02-25T19:13:13-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006559.html I understand that spamming has relatively little to do with the targeted site and far more to do with the notion of increasing the number of links to a given place. That said, I am constantly amused by the sort... Rants Vengeful Cynic 2010-02-16T08:45:31-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006553.html I find it rather remarkable that the Obama White House feels that the best way to repay the unpaid portion of the TARP funds is through taxing the banks. Well, I suppose it isn't that remarkable when you consider that... Rants Vengeful Cynic 2010-01-14T22:51:38-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006551.html China's history as a denizen of the internet and as a country of internet users is a rather one-sided one. Mostly, it's one of paranoid censorship and suppression of anything that departs from the official party line. And yet, the... Writings Vengeful Cynic 2010-01-12T23:03:06-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006547.html I'm currently trying to maintain good karma by containing my elation at the final termination of a particularly vexing contract employee. This would be at least the 4th in the last year whose departure has filled me with joy and... Vengeful Cynic 2009-12-25T18:54:22-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006546.html Just in case any of you were wondering about what healthcare reform is doing to America, it looks like it's going to be providing mental health services to those who most desperately need them and just in time:... Fun Stuff I've Found Vengeful Cynic 2009-12-24T15:12:40-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006545.html Is it possible to appreciate what someone is doing while simultaneously despise them for why they're doing it? Take Joe Lieberman: he's against a taxpayer-subsidized public healthcare plan... and as a Libertarian, I can respect that. But he's against it... Rants Vengeful Cynic 2009-12-15T22:53:08-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006536.html I was listening to an interview with an author this evening who dedicated his work to the priests and nuns who suffer from association from the rare percentage of those who have caused the whole establishment to be called into... Writings Vengeful Cynic 2009-11-11T23:45:39-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006533.html Is government-backed health insurance necessarily a bad thing? I mean, in and of itself... I'm not talking about government-subsidized or fully government-funded - I'm talking about an insurance bloc as administered by the government. Is this a bad thing? Because... Writings Vengeful Cynic 2009-10-28T23:27:52-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006532.html Since I set off a firestorm on my facebook page this afternoon regarding the notion of immunization, I figured I'd come over here and at least string together a couple of links with my thoughts on the subject. Here are... Fun Stuff I've Found Vengeful Cynic 2009-10-21T23:37:22-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006531.html "We've been set up for failure." I hear that expression from time to time, mostly from engineers... especially from burned-out engineers to whom things are looking exceptionally dim. The first time I heard it, it took me aback a little... Rants Vengeful Cynic 2009-10-17T00:46:18-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006529.html As another example of why I shouldn't be given free time nor allowed the notion that I have money or the ability to spend it, I present you with the Shadow Council Foundation and the attendant Shadow Council Scholarship for... Appeal To Readers Vengeful Cynic 2009-10-12T21:14:18-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006524.html As a veteran of the Culture Wars, or, perhaps more appropriately, as someone who was raised inside of the Religious Right and was taught at an early age that the rest of society was "out to get us" and was... Vengeful Cynic 2009-09-16T22:00:31-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006523.html Because I hate myself, I'm going to go ahead and try to figure out how we need to reform healthcare. Yeah... this should go really well. Before I do that though, I have a question that I think we need... Rants Vengeful Cynic 2009-09-04T08:08:56-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/vengefulcynic/archives/006522.html If you don't typically read Rands in Repose (and really, I recommend that you do, especially if you're an engineer and/or an employee of a large corporation), I would encourage you to go read his recent blurb on performance reviews.... Writings Vengeful Cynic 2009-09-01T23:06:36-06:00