Nothing good comes from holding back.
Here are some of the thoughts that I have about Donald Trump. The man is clearly a text-book narcissist. Everything is about him, and nothing that isn’t about him appears to be of much interest to him. He clearly has no self-control. His twitter feed is a testimony to his utter inability to hold his…
About two months ago, I got a tattoo on my left forearm that says “forward”. (Naturally, as a developer, I got it in a fixed-width font, specifically Courier New.) I got it because I’ve always been the kind of person that lives in the past. I tend to look backwards and think about the past…
Alfie Evans has died. We’ll never know if Alfie would have lived longer than he did, because murderous, tyrannical, evil people stopped Alfie from having any chance at life. The British government not only refused treatment to Alfie, they refused to let him eat or drink. Not only did they starve and dehydrate him, they…
I’ve mentioned previously that I now listen almost exclusively to Country Music. (My favorite artist by far is Brad Paisley.…) And in listening, I’ve found that that there are some common themes and things that the singers like quite a bit: Drinking beer on the weekend Trucks Girls who: Wear baseball caps backwards Wear cut-off…
Facebook has been in the news lately for a dust-up about privacy and the (ab)use of customer data. Apparently they have been playing too fast and loose with our “private” data. I put “private” in quotes because, well, on Facebook, nothing is private. You are kidding yourself if you think that anything — anything — you put…
I had a big kerfuffle on my facebook page this week. I posted a peripheral comment about the student walkouts, and it devolved into a pretty typical gun debate. There were reasonable comments and discussion — I enjoy a lively debate — and of course a couple of the typical kooky/outlandish ones as well. A…
In the wake of the horribleness that was the Parkland shooting, there has been much discussion about how much money specific Congress members receive from the NRA. The idea is that these people receive so much money from the NRA that they are beholden to the organization and will do their bidding. This is completely…
Our Vice-President, Mike Pence, has some strict rules that he follows to “build a fence around his marriage”. For this, he is mocked by some. And yet we are amazed by the Harvey Weinsteins of the world. C. S. Lewis famously said “We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” …
Coaching in the NFL has to be a hard job, but in general, it is marked by a tendency not to take chances and always play it safe. If I were a coach in the NFL, here are some rules I would follow: I would never take a knee and pass up a chance to…
Some people are angry that football players are kneeling during the National Anthem. Here are ten things that ought to make you angrier than that: Prison Rape The viscerally awful oppression in North Korea President Trump more or less ignoring Puerto Rico Child abuse Pedophilia That Socialism completely ruined Venezuela The way women are treated…