Nuance, meritocracy, and the upper 20%
If there’s one adage in life that has proven itself true numerous times it’s this: you might get rich through luck, but you won’t stay rich th...
Category: Politics
After the election
Note: I originally wrote this back in November 2004 following the 2004 election, and I just decided to share it after finding it on a backup drive. It’s a...
All whites are racist
On Facebook you’ve probably seen floating around a list of how Trump is making America great again. The list is kind of tongue-in-cheek, and asserts that ...
Impeachment is NOT a political tool
From the Constitution of the United States at Article II, Section 4: The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed...
Making decisions
Recently came across this gem from Occupy Democrats Logic on Facebook: This is yet another of the many contradictions with regard to the left and standing laws....
Let’s talk about 2016
So I’m not allowed to talk about my two nephews being born, the new better job I started at the start of the year, delivering a computer project to a frie...
Electoral College math experiment
With a lot of buzz going about the Electoral College and the fact that Trump won the electoral vote despite Clinton winning the popular vote, I opted to conduct...
My Christmas rant…
(Note: I originally wrote this in 2009. Opted against updating the dates.) Over the years, I’ve stepped back and thought about what Christmas has become. ...
One question no one seems to ask about diversity
Article: “Diversifying tech: Yes, white men can be part of the solution and not the problem” Ah another piece of virtue signalling. In other words, ...
Misconstruing free speech – #TrumpCup
On November 18, a woman named Sam Montgomery posted this to Twitter: I work at the Starbucks in Lexington, Kentucky and if anybody asks me to write Trump on the...