One of my co-workers remarked today that he had some gear "left over from a past life."

Can you just imagine reincarnation with old junk added? The baby comes home from the hospital with an entire moving van full of obsolete computers, discarded boots, old tax returns, Victrola record players, trepanning tools, rope-and-string used to level blocks ( Read more... )

Every four years, just in time for the elections, US news media develops a sudden fascination with an otherwise obscure individual named David Duke, who is apparently some sort of white supremacist. Duke is an expert at gathering publicity every presidential election by "endorsing" the Republican candidate. This is duly reported by our leftist ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure I have a magazine article due sometime soon... but first this message ( Read more... )

TL;DR version: College students live in an milieu in which any deviant political behavior is rigorously attacked, and the change of government worries them.

ArticleMy summary ( Read more... )

TL;DR version: The campaign strategies of Trump and Clinton were designed to win the electoral college, not the popular vote, so a discrepancy between the two is not remarkable or significant.

The articleMy summary ( Read more... )

This morning, a sore neck: one too many too-enthusiastic shots to the head with a cane...

Polls open in half an hour, and I still don't know who I'm voting for ( Read more... )

I'm a First Amendment absolutist ( Read more... )

I'm going to confess to a character flaw ( Read more... )

Until recently I donated money to the Red Cross on a monthly basis: some for local use, some for use at their discretion ( Read more... )