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Who's Clueless?

December 25, 2006

May be me, for ending this e-mail. Write dana@a-clue.com if you think so.

December 18, 2006

Elizabeth Dole, who decided late last week to run for re-election.

December 11, 2006

Carly Fiorina. Think Gordon Gecko in pumps.

December 04, 2006

Was Steve Ballmer's FUD attack on Linux. It boomeranged like Macaca.

November 27, 2006

Anyone who now says President Bush is not a conservative in order to sell "real" conservatism. This was as real as it gets, kids. At least for a generation.

November 20, 2006

The way in which Jeff Immelt is killing MSNBC.

November 13, 2006

Any assumption that Oracle, Microsoft, or Sun are going to "take over" open source.

November 06, 2006

Every Tennessee voter who uses it as an excuse to vote for Bob Cracker, er, Corker.

October 30, 2006

Worrying about open source indemnification.

October 23, 2006

Air America. Even a business based on politics must first be run as a business.

October 16, 2006

The way House Republicans handled La Cage Aux Foley. They turned a one-day story into the gift that keeps on giving.

October 09, 2006

Torture. It does not work. It dehumanizes both torturer and tortured, as well as all those who support the torturer.

October 02, 2006

Reporters who never thought Mark Hurd knew all about the H-P scandal.

September 25, 2006

Hewlett-Packard. The great "invent" will go into history alongside Bethlehem Steel.

September 18, 2006

ABC. The loser now may be later to win...and turn on you.

September 11, 2006

Southern Democrats, who are still more afraid of their own party than northern Republicans are of theirs.

September 04, 2006

Georgia Democrat Mark Taylor who virtually closed down his campaign for August and lost any hope of victory.

August 28, 2006

Coverage of the Jon Benet-Ramsey murder, especially that which ignores the press' role in hounding the victim's family.

August 21, 2006

Anyone who thinks Israel won its war in Lebanon.

August 14, 2006

assuming Cuba will change immediately once Fidel Castro is dead.

August 07, 2006

Charles Barkley . Don't tell me what uniform you're wearing, tell me what you believe.

July 31, 2006

Israel. l You can't kill 'em all.

July 24, 2006

Georgia Democrats.

July 17, 2006

Joe Lieberman although his anger shows he's starting to get history's message.

July 10, 2006

Ted Stevens and Senate Republicans, who are treating the Internet as though it's 1908.

July 03, 2006

Pundit Omniscience Disease. And expecting your adversaries not to follow up.

June 26, 2006

Rupert Murdoch. He's getting hosed by the Internet again, but no one dares mention it. Except me.

June 19, 2006

Every House member who voted against net neutrality. They are on the wrong side of history, and deserve to be tossed.

June 12, 2006

Was Fox trying to edit a show transcript to hide what was plainly on the videotape. Someone needs to rent A Face in the Crowd.

June 05, 2006

Jeff Goldberg along with every other political analyst who looks at a steady state universe in a period of political excess.

May 29, 2006

Glenn Reynolds, who continues to lose audience share despite his word-for-word copying of Bush talking points and WSJ editorials. His audience wants meatier stuff.

May 22, 2006

Microsoft Windows. More on that next week.

May 15, 2006

Patrick Hynes. Making broadband an inevitable choice between only cable and telephony is idiocy.

May 08, 2006

Judicial approval of gerrymandering. It just makes for wider swings in policy, and more abusive politics.

May 01, 2006

Are Georgia Democrats. They are still stuck in the 1930s.

April 24, 2006

Predictions of Desktop Linux. It doesn't matter and it needs marketing.

April 17, 2006

Cynthia McKinney. I'm told she used to be a nice person. But her father poisoned her.

April 10, 2006

Overstock.Com. The way to become a millionaire is apparently to start as a billionaire.

April 03, 2006

Lou Dobbs. He might just be on to making a complete ass of himself.

March 27, 2006

Esther Dyson , writing in The New York Times that a tax on e-mail "makes sense."

March 20, 2006

The so-called Progress & Freedom Foundation, which is nothing but a front for the Bells and Luddism.

March 13, 2006

Yours Truly, who rode Corante down into the ground and is now stuck without a regular outlet (hint hint).

March 06, 2006

Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com. The way to become a millionaire really is to have a father who is a billionaire.

February 27, 2006

Apple invoking the DMCA to stop discussions about its operating system. That just moves the discussion overseas.

February 20, 2006

Forbes calling Oracle a "buy." Monopoly rents are a short term game.

February 13, 2006

The destructive fight against Moore's Law by the Bell companies. They're destroying themselves and their country at the same time.

February 06, 2006

Those who claim to be "libertarians." You're right-wing Republicans, get over it.

January 30, 2006

Disney trying to dicker with Steve Jobs. Jobs ain't Ted Turner. He'll bite your arm off.

January 23, 2006

Corante, which has no technical capability after four years, and less of a business model.

January 16, 2006

Calling Blu-Ray "the winner" in the next-generation DVD race

. Both sides lost.

January 09, 2006

Sony, now worth a fraction of Apple, and continuing to lose ground under Australian buffoon Howard Stringer.

January 02, 2006

2005.


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