Resale value?? That is how you are trying to justify buying a machine that is more expensive to own in every way from OS to application software to upgrades to repairs? How many people buy a computer for it's freaking investment value? Not I. Not many. Not any? Oh yes, I forgot, Macs don't crash... HAHAHAHA! Macs don't get viruses. Our IT group says they use Novell Groupwise (mail) for the very same reason Macs don't get viruses: the market share is so small why bother writing a virus for it?

I can see it now, racks and racks of Mac PCs being used for everything from database to web to Citrix servers. No I can't, because it will never happen. And yet, that is just what HP/Compaq, Dell, and even Gateway have been doing for years. I know. I manage enterprise database systems for one of the largest employers on the east coast. I also run a project recording studio out of my home. PCs are winning in this arena as well, as a similar high end Mac (not some entry level piece of junk), will cost you 30% more, and won't run some of the most popular media software like Giga Studio, or Sonar. Even Pro Tools got wise and now runs on a PC. I can buy a ton of muscle in the PC platform. More than can even be stuffed into a Mac. Period. Try this with your Mac: eight quad core CPUs and 100 GB RAM, two terrabytes disk space. Ha Ha.

A Mac is just a metrosexual dream. Get used to it, and go get a manicure or a Double Ristretto Venti Nonfat Organic Chocolate Brownie Frappuccino Extra Hot with Foam and Whipped Cream Upside Down Double Blended, and stop spouting this nonsense.

We, as a people, show all the classic signs of addiction. We can't stop. We know it is bad for us. It is actually bad for us. It is self destructive. It disrupts our life. It controls us through laws, taxation, and the nasty high we get when it does its thing (controlling others, even as it controls us). We love it and hate it at the same time. We think it gives to us, when in reality, it only takes. It leaves us in a continually weakened state. The more of it we get, the less we can resist it.

We are addicted, and the current crop of politicians revel in this fact. Like any other addict, we won't change until we hit rock bottom. Even then we may not change, we may simply die. We are an exceptionally young country compared to others that lasted a thousand years before they declined precipitously, or disintegrated. We are also the freest. Free to imbibe, it would appear, but free also to change. I am not encouraged by what I see and hear these days. I think a lot of pain is in the making, change or not. Hopefully it will inspire us and not defeat us.

such an idiot. Which goes to prove that anyone that wants the job very badly can get it.

I was not a TMW reader during the clinton years, but I would still expect him to make light of the party that controls congress and the senate. Is that not powerful enough for you? I am trying to be as sensitive to this issue as I can, but I remain convinced that the majority (~90%) of TT's commentary is anti republican/pro democrat.

When it comes to dealing with actual humans (i.e. conservatives, liberals, etc), I find that he constantly portrays conservatives in a political sense. I am a crunchy conservative, and care not for the mindset of the economic development based attitudes of many conservative, but on the other hand, I find them generally more rational than those mostly identified with liberal issues (Gore, et al).

Whereas, I am thoroughly convinced that guys like Savage are basically running their schtick (not reality based), I rather enjoy the way he slices and dices both parties. I wish more cartoonist would do likewise.

I would expect political commentary to spread the disgust equally on the politicians, not just one gang of them. How do you expect us to find your satire and sarcasm funny if it is so transparently just a method to actually show support for a gang that is easily just as corrupt and self focused as the other? It shows that you are nothing more than a politician supporter. Politician=politician.

I think a really funny strip could be made of Charlie Rangel's 2 million dollar (of our money) "donation" to the library at City College of New York. What's so funny is that he is using your money to build a library that will be called "The Rangel Library". That is really fodder for satire, don't you think?

Please, we need a real satirist, not just another democrat hack.

a pretty close parallell to modern art. Mostly ugly, abstract, and rarely anything of real, lasting interest. It is written to impress the teachers and fellow students that the composer is surrounded by for the better part of their formative years. It is the frantic expression of people that have been submerged in the twelve tone system for too long, and think that their boredom with it extends to the erst of us.

I am convinced that in the future, the art music world will discover the efforts of composers like Hans Zimmer, John Williams, and Howard Shore and declare them master works. Before you scoff at the idea of a commercial effort being considered art music, recall that most of Mozart's music was a commercial endeavor for the movies of his day - opera.