Deep Thoughts...

...from my mom:

I was engaged in some deep thinking on a range of topics.

At one point I considered this age old question: Which is more painful? giving birth, or getting kicked in the nuts?

Women say that giving birth is more painful. Way more painful.

After more deep thinking, I came up with a different answer. I think that getting kicked in the nuts is more painful than giving birth. Here is why I think that.

A year or so after giving birth, a woman might say, "It might be nice to have another child."

But you never hear a guy say, "It might be nice to have another kick in the nuts."

I can't fault her logic :-)

The Libya Deception...

I'd like to think that this sort of behavior by the American leadership would be absolutely unthinkable.  Unfortunately, here in the real world, it is all too common.

I'm as outraged as anyone by the Obama administration's behavior with respect to the attack on the embassy in Benghazi – but I won't pretend that this is a particularly egregious example of the abuse of power by a President of either party.  It's more like a continuation of a pattern of such behavior that roughly keeps pace with the size, wealth, and power of the Federal government.

In other words, the more that's at stake for those with their greasy paws on the levers of power, the more it gets abused.  Naturally ... as that is how a significant subset of our fellow humans behave when we let them get away with it.  Listen, and weep for your country.  And remember all this when you vote in November...

Geek Stuff: Bit-Twiddling Hacks...

A nice collection from Sean Anderson, with C code examples...