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AOC and the left’s disdain for charity

Posted on June 8, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Ethics

Cancel culture vs boycotts

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In November 2020, law student Elizabeth Rose penned an article on Medium called “In Defense of Cancel Culture” in which she compared cancel culture ...

Photography

Revisiting DotTune for Sigma and Tamron lenses

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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 ...

Ethics

Missing a lot of details

Posted on May 16, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Nasira

Moving Nasira to a different chassis

Posted on April 17, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Democrat platform

About voter ID laws

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Due process

Presume Andrew Cuomo is innocent

Posted on March 13, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of New York has a bit of a problem on his hands. Multiple “credible” allegations of sexual harassment or assault have bee...

Contract law/Photography

About that videographer and nonrefundable deposits

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Article: Wedding videographer refuses refund after bride’s death, harasses her family I’m sure by now a lot of people have heard of this story. (Yea...

Scams

Blackmail variant – 2021-02-20

Posted on February 20, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

This may sound like an advertisement for my previous article on hosting a mail server on your home network, since doing so for the last several years has allowe...

Debt

Infinity Consumer Services

Posted on February 12, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In a previous article I wrote about American Debt Enders and their “Debt Dispute Program”. It seems since that article went live, the company has do...

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