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Most hackers are obscenely young computer geniuses whose IQs probably trump mine by roughly 30 points. Most of these people are not what you would call social butterflies. They hack alone...
...future! I constantly remind my middle-aged seminar participants that George Babbitt and Dilbert are not the quintessential Americans. Who are? Ben Franklin (the father of self-help literature). Ralph Waldo Emerson (self-reliance was his shtick, recall). Walt Whitman. And yes, motivational guru Tony Robbins. And yes, Donald Trump. And... Bentonville, Arkansas' Sam Walton... and Bill Gates...
Hero Jim Clark, mentioned above, is no charmer, as revealed by Michael Lewis in The New New Thing. In fact, to my reading, he comes off as about as delectable as Donald Trump. But he's pure American bravado, a bravado that was lost in the Babbitt-Dilbert-Big Bureaucracy-Cubicle Slave decades...
...ever dreamed of opening for Steve and Eydie, and I dreamed of joining so I could be canonized with them. Also because I figured hanging out there would be my best odds of actually seeing a celebrity die, which I've found is a pretty hard story to trump...
...basic legal issue is straightforward and simple. Does the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures trump the all but unanimous community desire to test its children for drugs? The American Civil Liberties Union, representing Tannahill and his son, will soon test the question of how far the government can go in overriding traditional constitutional restraints in its quest for a "drug-free America...