You can’t make America great again if you intend to suppress the freedoms of women, who are half the population.  Last night I watched vice-president elect,  Mike Pence, vow to remove birth control subsidies for women under the Obama care act.  Why, he questioned, should people w

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