Category: Bits and Pieces

My computer has been slow, which is inconvenient. Yesterday, though, it started acting hinky, which is worrisome. I’ve therefore spent a significant part of today running system audits and tests to make sure my computer hasn’t been compromised. So far, nothing has shown up, which is good news. As soon

I usually use my “Found it on Facebook” posts to highlight the illogical, illiberal things my many Progressive friends periodically post on Facebook. However, over the past few years, I’ve also been fortunate enough to find a few conservative friends (most of them, surprisingly, from my high school graduating class

In Billy Squier’s telling, everybody wants him for his fame.  In my version of life, everybody wants me to do something for them. No matter the reason, the outcome is the same: when everybody wants you, you’ve got no time left for yourself. I have a dream that tomorrow will

Here’s the wrap-up on my Murphy’s Law day. After waiting three hours in the high school parking lot (and only fellow Bay Areans will be impressed that the temperature was 86 degrees during this wait), I finally got towed to the Ford dealership, which treated me with exceptional kindness. Even

I am having a Murphy’s Law day. I did not expect this day to be very exciting, since the only thing on the schedule was to wait for a repair call from a shower door company and then to take my mom to yet another doctor’s appointment. Then I got

I’m sorry about the missing comment option. The server that hosts my website is under a hacker attack. A lot of sites on the server aren’t getting published at all. I’m lucky in that my posts are getting published, but unlucky in that my comment option has temporarily vanished. I

I finally caught up with Alan Dershowitz’s The Education of a Wartime President. In it, he quite appropriately takes Obama to task for taking the opportunity when the US was not at war for setting an impossibly high standard of engagement with enemies (one can bomb only if there’s near

In 2009, I wrote a post entitled “Does Brown v. Board of Education constitute the Supreme Court’s one free pass?” in it, I argued that Brown represented the Supreme Court coming up with a rather badly reasoned (albeit moral) legal opinion to leapfrog over the fact that the South was

The internet seems to be down in our neighborhood. I have intermittent access, but even then, it’s slower than the old dial-up days. Comcast has promised to send a tech out to our house by Wednesday, but we’ve already seen a truck at work on someone else’s house today. Perhaps

My computer has been acting up, which has stalled both reading and writing. I think it’s quieted down, though, so I’m starting to collect interesting articles to share with you.