A prediction regarding language
With social justice warriors in the United States and much of the rest of the English-speaking world continually labeling words and phrases as being racist and ...
Category: Politics
Net neutrality
All the various discussions of incidents wherein ISPs have done “shady things” all ignore WHY they made those moves over the simple fact that it hap...
Mr Obama, respectfully, shut up
Link: Statement from Obama about DACA Mr President, Your predecessor openly refused to criticize you, your administration, and your policies, saying this in Mar...
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...
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 ...
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...
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, ...
Post-election (willful) ignorance
Let’s start with these two: “Will my marriage stay legal?” “Will Roe v. Wade be overturned?” Anyone who asks these questions obvio...