Month: October 2011

A reversal of policy like this has to have come from either Holder or Obama. And it hasto be motivated by the fact that November 6, 2012, is less than 400 days away. It’s bad policy (leaning on the landlords… Continue Reading →

I wrote this a while back on Hit Coffee and thought I would share it here for this audience, particularly in light of recent conversations. Be aware that this question actually involves a potential subplot in one of my novels… Continue Reading →

Suitable for a Mindless Diversions post — some friends have asked me to gamemaster a tabletop RPG to see if they’d like it, and I agreed to do it. For a small group only of friends who saw their kids… Continue Reading →

A calculus teacher named Bradley Johnson at a public high school in Poway, California decorated his classroom with posters described as: …two large banners, each about seven-feet wide and two feet tall, hung on the wall. … One had red,… Continue Reading →

Just when we need more jobs, we lose Steve Jobs. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. I hate the iPhone passionately. I hate what it has done to smartphones. I have little use for Macs. I have little use for a computing… Continue Reading →

Kay Steiger sounds off the warning bells with regard to online college: Via the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed, a new study confirms some earlier findings about the efficacy of online learning in two-year colleges. The study,… Continue Reading →

Has anyone out there made the switch? If so, how good is the document reading? I know that they are both ODF-based, but so is IBM Lotus Symphony and going back and forth between that and OOo was a pain… Continue Reading →

Several years ago, I donated money to a Republican congressional candidate. The guy went to high school with my older brothers, both of whom spoke highly of him, and there wasn’t much objectionable (as far as Republicans running in a… Continue Reading →

ThinkProgress cites a study that points out that Evangelical kids have premarital sex in similar numbers to everybody else: 80% for Evangelicals, 88% for heathens. Both ED Kain and Russell Saunders, along with TP itself, cite the study as a… Continue Reading →