"The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create things that change this industry are both the thinker-doer in one person" ~ Steve Jobs

Hate to break it to you, but if your mom and pop aren't on the technical edge of some practicable craft, then they aren't major thinkers, despite their degrees.

Also, use Linux. Other OSes pipe propaganda directly to your desktop or screen without even asking.

... Colbert Report? It was entertaining for teenagers taking high school civics I suppose...

Kipling is a master poet and Yockey's Imperium is a great book if you have time to read it.