The left blinded itself to its own elitism, but leftist have been elitists ever since Lenin claimed the workers needed intellectuals to lead them, and communism called itself ‘scientific’. The left always thought of itself as smarter and more enlightened. Such people given power will burn the world, and toast virtue signal coated marshmallows on it, while doing it. After all, if the world is too stupid to understand their genius, it deserves to burn.

“Seattle is one of only two major ports to the great Pacific Ocean…”

Only if Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Oakland are considered one port.

Never mind Portland, Oregon. It moves less than half the cargo that Port Hueneme,* California does.

* good luck pronouncing that name correctly

If Wozniak hadn’t met Jobs, Wozniak would have been a successful computer entrepreneur worth billions. If Jobs hadn’t met Wozniak, Jobs would be asking people if they want fries with their order.

Read this reddit thread and research the history people reference about Jobs, Wozniak, Lisa… https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/b4pppe/til_that_steve_jobs_lied_to_steve_wozniak_when/

Steve Jobs must have had a fantastic publicist. So many people believe he did things he never did. I especially get a kick out of the people who praise him for being a computer whiz.

“When the truth become legend print the legend.”

Thanks for the quote.

Who knows? Maybe Mr. Thurber inspired Mr. Buckley.
I’d really like it if he did.

Cheers. 😀

Your impression of Steve Jobs does not coincide with reality. Read about how he cheated and lied to Wozniak. Read about how he went to court to withhold money from his daughter and her mother, even after drawing attention to himself by naming a computer after her. (Especially ironic, since Jobs himself was adapted and raised by two generous, loving parents.) Read about how he verbally abused and denigrated brilliant engineers, often firing them or denying them profits after they worked like dogs to try to make Jobs’ designs work.

I think, towards the end of his life he may have truly become a good and kind man. I hope he did. But there is a hagiography about the first 4 or so decades of his life that do not correlate with who he was and what he did and did not do. There is a reason the Apple board got rid of him.

Rufus T. Firefly:

As far as I’m concerned, you way underestimate Steve Jobs.

I kinda hate Jobs and I am not unaware of his weak spots. Nonetheless, the guy was a natch and a phenom and a damn hard worker.

Sure, Jobs made mistakes and some bad gambles. But those were cutthroat treacherous times. There were plenty of also-rans from that era.

Steve Jobs wasn’t one and Apple now has a higher capitalization than Microsoft.

I agree. Jerry Fallwell, Jimmy Swaggert, Larry Craig, Joe McCarthy… the list goes on and on…
That’s why I don’t view it as a Left-Right phenomenon. There are just as many greedy hucksters willing to wave the stars and stripes to fill their pockets as there are Colin Kapernicks and Megan Rapinoe’s willing to walk on the stars and stripes to fill theirs.