It Was 261 Degrees This Morning . . . Brr!
2022-01-20 – Something like 50 years ago, the United States was debating whether to convert our system of weights and measures to the metric system. The effort failed because the […]
Tag Archives: Media
Nothing Prepared Us? . . . Everything Prepared Us!
2017-04-03 – Yesterday, the LA Times told us “Nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck.” The train wreck of the Trump administration. Their article was Part I […]
“We Don’t Like Our Candidates”—Sez NBC News
2015-10-22 – Yesterday NBC News came out with a poll (done with the Wall Street Journal) saying that “We don’t like our candidates very much.” Don’t look so surprised NBC […]
News of Murder and Mayhem . . . Is That All There Is?
2014-09-07 – The news is scary. We say this like the news has always been a soothing bedtime story and suddenly . . . a cloud has appeared in the […]
Today You Are a Man
2014-08-24 – Fifty years ago this week I became a bar mitzvah. I stood before my community, led the prayers, read from the scroll of the Torah, and spoke to […]
Dog Traffic Controllers v. Net Neutrality
2014-06-03 – Sometimes when I step out of my house with my dog Lefty on the leash, I walk right into a neighbor’s dog passing in front of my house. […]
Indeterminacy of Guilt: Schrödinger’s Knox
2014-01-30 – If you know only the tiniest bit of quantum mechanics (a quantum of quantum mechanics or Q2M), you’ve surely heard of Schrödinger’s box. Schrödinger’s box is a […]
Free Content
2013-12-22 – We’ve all heard the lament that the Internet has fragmented the body politic by letting people choose their sources of information. Liberals read liberal sources, conservatives read […]
Legally Accidental
2013-07-14 – Not guilty. The George Zimmerman verdict is being ballyhooed as vindication of Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense. But that’s not how the law works when a defendant wins. Defendants […]
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