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Our Tax Dollars At Work

Published on 5 Sep 2005 at 5:00 pm. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Thanks for Playing, Brain Trust, Blogosphere, Business and Corporation Related, Health and Safety, Government: Federal, State and Local, Economics and the Economy, Main Stream Media.

Brief visitation of the hurricane Katrina disaster in terms of governmental incompetence, chiefly in terms of why commenting on the cargo cult of governance is an excercise in redundancy… and futility

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False Precision, or… High Caliber Journalism

Published on 1 Sep 2005 at 12:22 am. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Thanks for Playing, Brain Trust, Technopolitical, Design, Interface, and Usability, Main Stream Media.

Call this one cargo cult journalism.

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Vioxx Verdict: Cargo Cult of Pain and Suffering

Published on 29 Aug 2005 at 12:00 pm. 2 Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Brain Trust, Winners and Losers, Business and Corporation Related, Health and Safety, Legal, Law, and Courts, Government: Federal, State and Local.

A brief visitation of the Vioxx debacle, from the perspective of millions of patients being harmed by a jury too lazy to be troubled with the facts

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The Cargo Cult of Disease Control

Published on 15 Aug 2005 at 12:00 pm. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Manifest Masquerade, Brain Trust, In Corporations We Trust, Technopolitical, Business and Corporation Related, Health and Safety, Government: Federal, State and Local.

The amazing refusal of the Mainstream Media, as well as millions of Americans, to wake up to the cargo cult science being promulgated by the Institute of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control in the matter of long-term neural damage from mercury-laced vaccinations

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Apple and the Jaws of Intel

Published on 8 Aug 2005 at 11:24 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Total Quality Madness, Pathetic Success, Brain Trust, Winners and Losers, Apple Computer and Macintosh Related, Business and Corporation Related, Information Technology.

Unabashed predictions of how Apple’s switch to Intel will give them another chance to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

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IBM Speaks With Forked Tongue

Published on 3 Aug 2005 at 1:24 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Manifest Masquerade, Service With A Smirk, Brain Trust, Technopolitical, Business and Corporation Related, Information Technology, Open Source Software.

Brief commentary on IBM’s bait-and-switch with their CGIDEV2 tool

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Cisco and the Serpent’s Tooth

Published on 1 Aug 2005 at 12:00 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Brain Trust, Technopolitical, Business and Corporation Related, Networking Technology, Information Technology.

Substantive exposition of the endemic misapprehension that seems to surround Cisco and ISS’ recent actions against Michael Lynn for disclosing their trade secret information

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A Resurgent Sears?

Published on 1 Aug 2005 at 12:25 am. No Comments.
Filed under Brain Trust, Winners and Losers.

Sears was synomymous with catalog retailing and virtually owned the rural retail market in America. In 1993, after many false starts they blew it completely…

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