The Pragmatic Idealist

"Truth that's told with bad intent / Beats all the lies you can invent." - William Blake First Ever Footage of a Deep Sea Angler Fish   Virtual Worlds Invite Visitors into the Story   To Delete or Not to Delete   Assassin's Creed Meets the French Revolution and the Left Rebels Again

"The church is close, but the road is icy.  The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully." -  Russian Proverb   Google Signs $1.16 Billion Lease for Moffett Field   Uber Backpedals on Investigating Journalists   A Time for Revisiting Real Fears   "Interstellar" - the Cinema of Physics   Cool Concept: Jevon's Paradox

"The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out."   - Chinese Proverb Politicians, Teens and Birth Control   Excellent New Bond Villain   Obama Calls ISIS Beheading "Act of Pure Evil"   A Plumbing Problem for the Internet

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." - Samuel Butler  Death by Typo   China Turns up the Rhetoric Against the West   Amazon and Hatchette Bury the Hatchet   How Alibaba is Using Bra Sizes to Predict Online Spending Habits   And a picture of Kim Kardashian's ass, cause why not:

“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” -  William O. Douglas   The Wrong Question to Ask About Same Sex Marriage   The Triumph of the Wrong   Soviet Era Engine is Blamed for Antares Rocket Explosion   Recreating Adam, After the Fall   Republicans are Only Sometimes the Party of Uber   Wearing your Failures on your Sleeve

"Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike." - Plato   The Tornado Election   The 2016 Race is On   Verizon Wireless Under Fire for its Ad Targeting Program   Facebook has its own Get Out the Vote Message

"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top." - Dr. Joyce Brothers In Reversal, Maine Judge Lifts Ebola Quarantine on Nurse   The Beautiful Agony of the Kansas City Royals' World Series Run   Putin's Friend Profits in Purge of Schoolbooks   Virgin Galactic Space Ship Two Crashes