Author: Will Truman

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 →

A few weeks ago there was an article in the New York Times on decision fatigue. Decision fatigue is basically our mind’s tendency to stop thinking through decisions as the number of decisions one has to make accumulates. Decision fatigue… Continue Reading →

From no less a source than the Economist: DISCUSSIONS of Texas often turn to an exploration of the American South’s most distinctive regional locution, “y’all.” The common view, among outsiders, is that insofar as “y’all” is from the region specified,… Continue Reading →

The long nightmare in New Mexico is over: New Mexico coach Mike Locksley was fired Sunday, one day after yet another tough loss and another embarrassing off-the-field incident. Athletic director Paul Krebs announced Locksley’s dismissal in a statement and said… Continue Reading →

Brevity has never been my strong suit. So if you want to know what the below post is about, but do not want to read a couple thousand words, it’s this: The famous donor/beneficiary map, which purports to show that… Continue Reading →

I’ve been leaving intemperate comments here and there regarding the infamous donor/beneficiary map, which reveals that a lot of red states actually get more in federal funding than they put it. This is my more temperate response to that. At… Continue Reading →