If I were allowed to interview the President-elect, I wouldn’t ask Donald Trump about his ties with Russia, or his misogynist views of women or whether or not actor Tom Arnold’s claim that the man is a racist is true. (Click) I’d ask him what he was reading. Apparently, he
A firehose isn’t the province of firefighters anymore. A firehose is the gush of information people provide via the internet, particularly on social media like Twitter and Facebook. Twitter makes a bonanza by selling access to its firehose to interested companies. Recent repor
Recently, I described how the National Rifle Association (NRA) influences gun control laws by funneling campaign contributions to friendly legislators. (Blog 12/13/2016) Naturally, when our president-elect made a campaign promise to “drain the swamp,” I hoped he meant he’d dis
One of the advantages of being a troglodyte is a person has fewer worries than those who keep up with trends. For example, traveling by horse and buggy, like the Amish, means the price of gasoline is unimportant. I gain a similar advantage with my flip top cell phone. This dinos
Regarding the 2016 presidential election, writer Clara Jeffery sums the results best: …a small electoral majority chose a candidate who openly embraced bigotry, who slurred war heroes and mocked the disabled, who bragged of sexual assault, who said he’d ro
At 16, I knew everything. Had I been truly wise, I’d have dropped out of school and kept my good opinion of myself. As it stands, the older I get, the less I know. Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair, seems to share my state of bewilderment. (“From 9/11 to 11/9” by Gra
I’ve admitted I grew up in a National Rifle Association (NRA) household. I’ve admitted I owned a gun for years, a Remington 22 which I used to bring home my share of competition medals. The NRA teaches gun safety and provides a multitude of services to its members, but like th
More than once during my tenure as a politician, I voted to deed public property to private parties for $1.00. That is the minimum allowed by law to secure a financial transaction in my community. Much of the time, what was awarded was a corner lot, too small to build on, which