Nick Lewis: The Blog

A beautiful reminder that some Americans are still awake. Below is some Georgetown Law student's retort to Barriento's arguments that spying on citizens without a warrent is legal.

"When you're a law student, they tell you if say that if you can't argue the law, argue the facts. They also tell you if you can't argue the facts, argue the law. If you can't argue either, apparently, the solution is to go on a public relations offensive and make it a political issue... to say over and over again "it's lawful", and to think that the American people will somehow come to believe this if we say it often enough. In light of this, I'm proud of the very civil civil disobedience that was shown here today."

Tip 1: Use the word robust. And use it often. Every 5th time you use the word robust, be sure to combine it with the word "scalable". e.g. "Our vendors offer robust, and scalable solutions to the enterprise-level CMS markets."

Tip 2: Speaking of which, also use the words vendor, and end-user. Make it a point to distinguish the two as often as possible. e.g. "Well, the latest release of bloatus 5.6 offers a variety of features, and improvements that both vendors, and end-users will welcome."

By making such distinctions, you will prove to your audience that you understand the business-side of content management. Open source communists emphasize API's, collective intelligence, the ingenuity of people working under tight resources, and the human desire to create meaning out of being a part of something larger than themselves. Intelligent, business-minded people know that such fairy tales are hogwash. Quality, business driven, CMS solutions have proven robustness, and scalability that Drupal can't match. Let

Some people like SNL's Stuart Smallie (OCD, child of alchoholic, and has an eating disorder) pin messages on their bathroom mirror that that are engraved with phrases such as "people like me", "easy does it". In a similar tradition, I need to pin this list of sterling advice from 37signals on my door, bathroom mirror, and the inside of my eyelid. Some of these maxims are hugely important for people working with drupal. For example:

Fight Features: Build half a product, not a half-ass product

I've mentioned Larry King before. A few paragraphs after mentioning him, I realized how bored I was, and ended my post. I made note that it probably wasn't a coincidence that I was overcome by such boredom after mentioning Larry King.

So, Bill Maher guest hosted Larry King's crappy, boring, please-pour-lysergic-acid-over-my-body-as-an-alternative-to -watching-the-horse-shit of a show, and after watching it, I say: fire Larry King, that dumb, movie reviewer, talentless, elitist chucking bastard, and launch a phoenix from it ashes [quicktime of Bill Maher guest hosting].