http://rotophonic.com A geeky blog discussing the world of music, technology & politics. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:05:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So apparently some hackers killed my server. Sorry for the ugly default theme. For now, this is all we're going to get, but a beautiful theme will be forthcoming. Enjoy. http://rotophonic.com/2009/05/25/thank-you-hackers/ As Dick Cheney emerged from his cave in 2009 and began to overshare with the media about his approval of the Bush/Cheney Administration’s torture policy, I began to wonder what his motivation could possibly be. It’s certainly not what his lawyers would want him to do. It’s clear that the ... http://rotophonic.com/2009/05/13/listen-to-cheney/ Congratulations! The country really needed this. http://rotophonic.com/2008/11/04/president-barack-obama/ This weekend, the trolls at Fox News, Drudge and Newsbusters created a bogus story about the Coal industry and here's the facts about that "hidden" tape. Watch this: http://rotophonic.com/2008/11/03/attention-pa-and-oh-voters-dont-be-snowed-on-coal-smear/ Sublime. http://rotophonic.com/2008/10/24/will-ferrell-and-tina-fey-roast-mccain-palin-on-snl/ In a quick break from the politics of the day, I have to take a moment to rant about Apple's decision to eliminate a Firewire port from its new Macbooks and reduce to one, the number of Firewire ports on the Macbook Pro. As you may have heard, Apple released ... http://rotophonic.com/2008/10/17/apples-macbook-firewire-f-u/ If you watched the debate, it seems to me that the race is over. McCain has lost. http://rotophonic.com/2008/10/15/its-over-mccain-lost-today/ Looks like something really bad happened to McCain's campaign around September 8th: Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over that day and according to Pollster.com, it was all downhill from there. http://rotophonic.com/2008/10/15/sept8baddayformccain/ With the polls swinging towards the Democrats in the national elections, you'd think that California's Proposition 8 to amend California's Constitution to specifically eliminate equal protection rights for gays and lesbians in California would be going down in crashing and burning. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Millions of dollars have ... http://rotophonic.com/2008/10/14/join-the-fight-against-california-proposition-8/ As it happens sometimes, your best idea gets written by someone else--and most of the time better than you would have ever written it. In this case, the topic was to be McCain's only shot at losing with some measure of dignity. Alas, Miles Mogalescu at Huffington Post beat me ... http://rotophonic.com/2008/10/13/mccain-one-way-out/