iPhone 7 lacks a headphone jack and the masses are not happy. Tim Cook and Jon Ives, prepare to barricade your offices at Apple! But I’m going to tell you differently. I am not […]
Category: Business
“The Shutdown” or “Retards in the Legislature”
I am not a fan of Obamacare. It’s not its much-vaunted permanency problems, nor the hesitant start-up the initiative has been going through. It’s something else. Jesus, it’s like every week since they passed the […]
“Boobs” at the Oscars, Confirmation Bias and Why the Hollywood Mentality is so Dangerous
I’ve been accused of being slow on the uptake of the “new” and “fashionable”. To be honest, most of the time, it’s true. I avoid popular culture like the plague, sometimes to my detriment. Sometimes […]
Nationsmith Gamer Reports: EA CEO John Riccitiello Resigns
I’m a fan of Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic (and its MMO sequel The Old Republic), Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and whole slew of other games by Bioware. In extension, I loved playing […]
Global Warming Works in Mysterious Ways
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) The Great Lakes water level is the lowest it’s been in 48 years. Science dudes (a.k.a. hydrologists) say that hotter, dryer summers are causing more of the lakes to be evaporated. […]
Detroit: Not As Shitty As You Think
by Mike Gazdik Outside of the 4 million plus that live within the confines of the six counties of Metro Detroit, no one cares about the city that was once called “The Paris of North […]
Hypocrats
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) Monopolies, collusion, and price fixing are illegal in business. Laws were created to protect the consumer because businesses are ‘evil’. I’m cool with people who call businesses evil even though I […]
Fatties in Peril
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) Hostess is no more. They are now liquidating their assets because they can no longer finance their operation. There is apparently a ‘bakers union’ that a lot of Hostess employees were […]
iPad Mini, the Untold Story
Nationsmith writer K. David Du considers whether or not the iPad mini is a necessary buy, which triggers an episode of philosophical, futurist thinking. I have to admit, many of us technophiles weren’t surprised by […]
The Union Forever (For Once)
By Michael Baker The Management has caved, the Union wins, and for once, everybody seems to thinks that’s just dandy. Today it was announced that the NFL has reached an agreement with the referees union […]
The Nationsmith 