The Angry Drunk

From the Associated Press via the Arizona Capitol Times:

I’m shocked, shocked I say, to learn that these jack-holes are try­ing to turn a profit off this.

Jesus shit-shagging Christ the extremes to which with­ered, racist, shit-monger, car­pet­bag­ger1 Joe Arpaio will go to keep his prune-like face in the press bog­gle the fuck­ing mind.

Alex Seitz-Wald for ThinkProgress Justice:

In a lengthy and deliri­ous press con­fer­ence that relied on a mix of pseudo-science and innu­endo, Arpaio and his dower band of vol­un­teer inves­ti­ga­tors rolled out a series of films that depict doc­u­ments being Xeroxed and scanned into Adobe soft­ware to sup­pos­edly show that some­one forged Obama’s birth cer­tifi­cate. “This is seri­ous. This is very seri­ous,” the inves­ti­ga­tor said. The probe was appar­ently also aided by ser­ial fab­u­list Jerome Corsi, of the birther-obsessed web­site WorldNetDaily.

For the love of Satan why won’t Fox News offer this jack­ass a talk show so he’ll bug­ger off and leave us the fuck alone.

Chuq Von Rospach on the recent hand-wringing from the pun­di­toc­racy over so-called “crap” apps in var­i­ous Apple app stores:

What caught my eye were phrases being thrown about like “Apple’s missed oppor­tu­ni­ties to pre­vent dis­as­ter were such sim­ple and quick fixes”, which, once I stopped laugh­ing, made me want to cry in sym­pa­thy. It’s not sim­ple. It’s not quick. If it was, Apple would be doing it.

It’s always a treat to see some­one who actu­ally knows what the hell he’s talk­ing about weigh in on these issues.

Steve Wildstrom writ­ing for Tech.pinions does a mostly fan­tas­tic job of explain­ing how to sep­a­rate the wheat from the chaff in the Apple prod­uct rumor world. I do take excep­tion to one bit though. Steve writes:

Apple has a long his­tory of feed­ing prod­uct leaks to The Wall Street Journal.

People have been mak­ing this claim for years with absolutely no evi­dence. While some jour­nal­ists and pun­dits may have very good sources within Apple, I’ve never seen a shred of cred­i­ble evi­dence that Apple inten­tion­ally leaks prod­uct details pre-launch.

Craig Grannell:

I’ve made this argu­ment before myself. Trying to use the his­tory of the PC/Mac mar­ket as a model for any other mar­ket is stu­pid and doomed to failure.