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Tim Kokesh

Published Letters: 33
Editor's Choice: 9

Monday, March 2, 2009 03:24 PM

Pedantic, I know...

Harry Caray was the announcer for the Chicago Cubs.

Harakiri (a.k.a. "Seppuku") is ritual suicide.

Sorry, but this is one of my least favorite malapropisms.

Thursday, March 19, 2009 09:35 AM

If I were Cramer

I'd do exactly the same thing, if I had been pwned on national (well, cable) TV by a "fake news" anchor like that.

Sunday, April 5, 2009 10:00 AM

web apps don't need to run natively

If you're writing a really good web app, what's the point of having it run natively on a smartphone? Any halfway decent smartphone should be able to run a web app through its browser.

And by the way, that app they show running on the iPhone in the picture is really god-awful ugly. There's a reason that Apple has published HIG for the iPhone.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 07:52 AM

Tim Pawlenty

Despite, or maybe because of, the Norm Coleman debacle that is taking place in Minnesota, Pawlenty may very well win the GOP nomination in 2012... his Republican credentials are certainly no longer in doubt.

However, given his support for Coleman in his losing battle, how could the American public consider him to be anything but a partisan shill? At least McCain was a veteran and four-term senator.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 07:05 PM

"a video game...

... even old people can get excited about"?

Come on. How many of those "old people" already have a Playstation 3? While $50 might not be a barrier to excited old people getting TB:RB, surely the other $300 for the console is.

Monday, November 30, 2009 07:52 PM
Original article: Death to smiley

If you try to take away my smileys...

you can :-* my ( | )

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