Just a little bee in my bonnet. You have taken to labeling your issues with the epithet “open source production values”. I’m an IT professional, and the crappiest software packages I have to work with are commercial offerings. Many open source software packages are more stable and easier to use than their commercial competitors. Given my experience, I find your equation of “open source” = “buggy” to be mildly annoying. What experience have you had that has given you such a skewed view of open source?

Pcoop on August 26, 2008 at 3:27 PM

I actually had that question on the SAT.

If so, I couldn’t agree more. Keep up the good work! :)

Frontpage Interview Excerpt:

David Horowitz: ….The task of the academic revolutionaries is to seize the power at its source.

FrontPage: I found this a haunting read. Many of the cases here literally sent chills up my spine. One entry that particularly disturbed me was the one on Professor Bill Ayers (pp.29-32), where you remind us that this 60s radical was the leader of the terrorist “Weatherman” cult. One detail that has always been on my mind throughout the years in studying this character and his group was that his girlfriend, Diana Oughton, died in a Manhattan townhouse when the bomb they were making accidentally blew up. You would think that the death of his girlfriend would have perhaps led to some second thoughts on Ayers’ behalf. But apparently not. And throughout the Left’s history in general, there is this same disturbing theme: never looking back and never reflecting on the evil consequences inspired by leftist ideas. Could you give us a few words of wisdom here on this phenomenon — which Paul Johnson has referred to as “the heartlessness of ideas.”?

David Horowitz: Even when I was a leftist, Bill Ayers struck me as a superficial human being, and essentially thoughtless. You’re right, however, that the left is endemically thoughtless in this regard. It is incapable of confronting its failures and crimes – of being minimally accountable – because its agendas are not pragmatic to begin with. Leftists don’t really care about the balance sheet of what they have done. What they care about is the future – their fantasy of a world redeemed. Their calculus is analogous to that of the suicide bomber. When you get to the garden of Allah what you’ve left behind is trivia that doesn’t matter.