Dunkin’ Shammy
Apple users around the world upgraded to IOS7 this past week. 9 million people just bought new phones. Many of them succumbed to the scam that went around the Internet: that the new operating system would make their iPhone/iPad/iDevice waterproof . It’s silly, really, to think that people are gullible enough to think that a software update would impact hardware. I must admit a certain amount of amusement that I had in reading some of the outraged comments from people who upon learning of this feaux-feature prompted took their phone out and dunked it in water to verify. It shouldn’t however, be surprising that people fell for it – millions of people vote for politicians who promise the same sort of reality-bending premise as the Apple scam. Senator Ted Cruz has been vilified by both the Republican and Democratic establishment for his demagoguery of the Affordable Care Act (aka “ObamaCare”). He has spent months crui...