Blame Game

When you build a chain out of straw and expect it to hold up a heavy load, does it really matter which was the weakest link? Trying to figure out who to "blame" for the power outage is pointless. The blame lies 100% with the shoddy quality of the infrastructure in the first place. And I mean that '100%' literally. I was on the edge of the outage; Lansing was out, but Haslett (a suburb of Lansing) was only out for 40 minutes or so.

Toodles, Poindexter

John Poindexter, the Igor Karkaroff of DARPA, has quit his job out of frustration with his inability to launch the Total Information Awareness and the terror market. America is a bit safer now that this convicted felon is out of the Department of Defense. [RatcliffeBlog: Business, Technology & Investing] Normally I'm above this, but... [* dances on Poindexter's political grave*]