Despite Apple stock bouncing up against at all-time highs, the company is beginning to resemble a bungling Microsoft.  The newest version of its computer operating system, dubbed Yosemite, has been fraught with bugs – and none of the issues from WiFi connectivity to YouTube video streaming to kernel panics could be resolved by the recently released 10.10.2 update.   In fact, it is rumored that computers controlling both the NASA rocket and Virgin Galactic plane that exploded last month were running the beleaguered Mac OS.

Meanwhile, videos show the new ultrathin iPhone 6 can be so easily bent that it can folded by a Samsung employee’s bare hands.  Yet for those of us still using the prior generation of mobile devices, the newly released iOS8 has crippled essential applications such as email, Apple Pay, Bluetooth and Internet browsing.  Far more troubling, however, is a flaw in the new mobile operating system that makes users vulnerable to hackers in search of sensitive data like bank information and passwords.  Phones and tablets can be taken over by phony apps that users unwittingly load onto their handheld gadgets due to a loophole Apple uses to allow large software developers to bypass the App Store.

All of this recalls the disastrous 2012 rollout of Apple’s proprietary mapping application:  Roads appeared in the wrong places and the 3-D feature warped and bobbed like a bad acid trip.  In the end, key executives like Richard Williamson and Scott Forstall got canned after several unprepared tourists were sent deep into the Australian outback and nearly died.  I had my own problems with Apple maps which until Tim Cook’s recent announcement made little sense; why was it that every time I tried to get directions to the nearest Starbucks in SoMa, I was directed to Blow Buddies on Harrison Street?

With any luck, then, the National Guard will deploy Google Earth or some NORAD Command Guidance System to get themselves to Ferguson, MO where protesters have taken over the streets in the wake of the non-indictment of police officer Darren Wilson.   Wilson, you must know by now, gunned down unarmed black teenager Michael Brown for stealing $38 worth of cigars from a convenience store.  Setting aside the internecine battle between the KKK and Anonymous, Bill Cosby declared:

We, as black folks have to do a better job. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.  We cannot blame the white people any longer. Those people are not Africans. They don’t know a thing about Africa.  With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail. People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn’t that a sign of something?

Yes, Bill, it’s a sign that the drugs have taken hold and it’s rape time.

Understandably, the Big Apple is not accustomed to playing second fiddle, especially to some Podunk Midwestern hamlet.  So days before the Wilson verdict was rendered, a NYPD rookie cop shot and killed an unarmed African-American male in the Brooklyn projects.  With a legacy that includes names like Amadou Diallo and Patrick Dorismond, New York is looking to regain the top spot; after all Los Angeles went all up in shit after Rodney King merely got his ass beat.  In the final analysis, jail breaking your phone might just prove a viable solution, while jail breaking the prison in Ferguson may only lead to greater violence.  As one marcher scrawled on the sidewalk there, “Po leeces gonna be killed.”