Code, nerd culture and humor from Greg Knauss.

Elon Musk — the Hitler-saluting, white-supremacist, drug-addled, top clearance-denied, meme-begotten private citizen and richest person in the world, who has said in the past that he is in regular contact with Vladimir Putin — is now in unilateral control of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the General Services Administration (GSA), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the computer systems at the Treasury Department.

He has full access to every detail the government has on millions of people, companies, and organizations, including his competitors and perceived enemies.

He and a group of a few young acolytes / co-conspirators — who may or may not have clearance and may or may not be US citizens, but who are definitely not government employees or bound by an oath to the Constitution — are deciding which programs that have already been approved and funded by Congress will get their money and thus continue to exist. Taxes wishes it had that kind of power to destroy.

Meanwhile, the ostensible President is golfing, declaring economic war on allies, and blaming sexual harassment seminars for plane crashes, in that order.

Just as the Founders intended. Quoting Hamilton in Federailst 420, “Duuuuuude.”

Hi there! My name's GREG KNAUSS and I like to make things.

Some of those things are software (like Romantimatic), Web sites (like the Webby-nominated Metababy and The American People) and stories (for Web sites like Suck and Fray, print magazines like Worth and Macworld, and books like "Things I Learned About My Dad" and "Rainy Day Fun and Games for Toddler and Total Bastard").

My e-mail address is greg@eod.com. I'd love to hear from you!

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