On Bill Cosby
As I write this, the hot ticket news headline is Bill Cosby’s indictment being vacated by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. And a lot of people are naturall...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Sidestepping the Fourth Amendment
In the State of Washington back in 1989, a young woman named Amanda Stavik was abducted raped, and murdered. Her body was discovered several days later. A surpr...
Failures of logic
DarkViperAU (“DVAU” or “Matt” herein) is a GTA-V speedrunner. (Twitch, YouTube) For over the last year, he’s been attempting to fi...
Firearm liability “insurance”
It’s a general rule of common or statutory law that insurance does not cover intentional actions. Yet, time and again, we see proposals for “gun lia...
AOC and the left’s disdain for charity
The left’s disdain for charity is long-documented. But the most recent example is coming “from the top”, so to speak. Recently Congresswoman A...
Cancel culture vs boycotts
In November 2020, law student Elizabeth Rose penned an article on Medium called “In Defense of Cancel Culture” in which she compared cancel culture ...
Revisiting DotTune for Sigma and Tamron lenses
Back in January last year, I wrote an article clarifying one detail about the Dot Tune method for calibrating a Sigma lens. Sigma and Tamron lenses both can be ...
Missing a lot of details
Time to dredge up a 4 year-old article on Ask the Manager that I only recently discovered (via one of those list articles). It’s called “Employee go...
Moving Nasira to a different chassis
This is a long-overdue update. But before getting into the discussion, here’s the current configuration of the NAS: Storage is 12 HDDs divided into 6 pair...
About voter ID laws
Here’s a thought: rather than calling voter ID laws “voter suppression” and wasting money on a lawsuit against Georgia in the false hope the n...