I can’t claim to fully understand the politics in the Middle East. I’m not sure any one can, including the Middle East(1). However… I have to say that — if the reports of civilian hospitals being used for war headquaters are true — the behavior as reported(2) is reprehensible and Read more…
What is it with you people and your d**n robocalls? Do you really believe anyone who picks up the phone and hears “please do not hang up…” is going to do anything but hang up right at that very moment? It’s a serious clue, that rude and stupid opening line. *Maybe* Read more…
Did you ever stop to notice that the Sun is the source of all shadows? Wihtout light there are no shadows. Ah, but we turn on a flashlight? Yes? No: that flashlight is using energy that ultimately came from the sun. So, it’s still the sun. Ok, then, what about Read more…
Wow. The “news” today is startling in several ways.(1) Fox News has agreed to pay $767 million for “false news reporting” charges (47% of the damages requested), against a maker of voting machines for implying that they are crooked. Part of the report reflects back to previous articles that demonstrating Read more…
Strange News in the World today. Most of it, even as honestly reported as can be found, is moderately alarming, moderately disappointing, as Humanity continues with all it’s unconscious behaviors. That said, here are my thoughts on a few selected items from Today’s News — 7 April 2023. MidEast Read more…
Yet another school shooting. Really doesn’t matter which one I’m referring to — or have in my mind as I write this — when ever you are reading this, there unfortunately will be a current one. Do you know — some of you may even remember — that there was Read more…
Just some thoughts as 2022 winds down. All artificial sweeteners have now been implicated in various forms of dementia / senility, not just aspertaime. Why are they still legal? Why is aspertaime legal, when it kills, maimes and debilitates so many people every year? (In fact, in many countries it is Read more…
As a long time software engineer and occasional software user I have to admit that I have just about “had it up to here” with [so-called] “security” on the Internet. The occasional real security is annoying enough but smoke and mirrors stuff is just galling beyond reason. Firstly, in reality Read more…
So I was speaking with a friend a night or eight ago and we were talking about how often legislation backfires on the legislators and especially on Society, how such legislation often causes the very problem(s) it was meant to prevent, and I heard my self say: You can’t legislate Read more…
When I first encountered Robert Heinlein’s attitude toward manners, I thought he was just a little bit over the top. The older I get — and the ruder our culture gets — the more I realize just how right he was. And he saw it that clearly over 60 years Read more…
Disturbing piece of news today, about the Women’s Soccer League and sexual abuse and misconduct. Apparently (and all too believably) women professional soccer players have been systematically abused sexually by coaches, et al. In the past charges were raised and generally dismissed. Dismissed… The news article refers to it as Read more…
Just a thing to ponder… Subjects are controlled by their government (King, Council, Parliament, Proconsul, Congress, what ever) Citizens control their government. Dumb-funnies are those who (among other things) wonder aimlessly and planlessly into the capital building thinking, thereby, to take over the government. Or perhaps believe they will “start Read more…
You know the difference between a Pirate and a Privateer? Not that we have privateers any more (sort of), though we do still have pirates. (Look it up, if you don’t know about this; pirates still operate and they are neither romantic nor fun, nor do they have even a Read more…
Telemarketers have become a fungus on the planet, a disease with no cure. A Toxin in the culture of every nation, not just America the Incredibly Gullible. Ok, that’s harsh, maybe [and maybe not], but let me explain. Everyone of you who calls someone uninvited (there’s the key word) can Read more…
6,000 years (or so) of technological progress to achieve a world wide web of instant communication, where any one can talk to any one and what do we have? Latest posting from CNN on the Ukraine insanity is “photos posted that appear to be from the scene…” (italics are mine). Read more…
Bethesda — a truly wonderful game company, unfortunately recently purchased by Microsoft(1) — has been making pretty good computer games for a long time now. Mostly each game they put out out has advanced the art of all gaming on computers to some extent. Some times a lot, sometimes less Read more…
If it’s not good for at least 100 years, why did you design it, build it, sell it or buy it? Why? Imagine how much bounty the Human Race (and the God-Zillions of other critters we share this planet with) could have if every thing we made or did was Read more…
Not mine, I’m reposting it here. You know the expression; those who fail to learn from History, blah blah etc. Read this carefully. You are living in Interesting Times Learning to live in fear. After looking out the window I could see all the trucks and cannons go by, This Read more…
There are two books that stick in my mind when I think about the year “1984.” One book (obviously) is the one by that very title, written in 1949 as a warning about where we were heading, both as a nation and as a planet. George Orwell gave us such Read more…
No opinion on these is being expressed here. Just suggesting these ought to be thought about… by everybody. Why are spies treated differently during war than is every other participant in that war? All sides have spies. All sides have soldiers. All sides have guns. All sides have Old Men Read more…