Posts by Frank Kuschnereit

Remembering the Coleco Adam

It was a good deal at the time.

I recall I almost bought one. At that time, a PC was thousands of dollars and a Wang wordprocessor was something like $30,000.00. Even a selectric typewriter was way more expensive. I eventually bought an XT for $2,000 after the prices started to come down and used WordPerfect 4.2. Ah those were the days.

Facebook and ABC News get political

1,000,000 Strong for Stephen T. Colbert

As a Canadian, I do not care for the US 'cash and carry' form of government. I do take umbrage at the slur against Dr. Stephen Colbert, PhD DFA. He has won 3 Emmys, a Peabody, and was named one of the top 100 influential people by Time magazine. In January 2006, the American Dialect Society named truthiness, which Colbert featured on the premiere episode of The Colbert Report, as its 2005 Word of the Year.

All this aside, Colbert has big balls. While many comedians joke about President Bush, Colbert had the guts to do it to Bush's face at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. In Time magazine James Poniewozik called it "the political-cultural touchstone issue of 2006." Writing six months later, New York Times columnist Frank Rich referred to Colbert's speech as a "cultural primary" and christened it the "defining moment" of the 2006 midterm elections. In 2 short years, Colbert has left his mark on American pop culture like no others before him. Even though he is only on basic cable, his popularity propelled him ahead of several other Democratic candidates when he announced he was running for president. BTW, his facebook group is now over 1.5 million. So please give credit where it is due.