So I’m reading the news and I come across the story of Chelsea King, a 17 year-old high school student who disappeared Thursday in San Diego. Police there say they found evidence linking a previous sex offender, John Gardner, to the crime though they didn’t say what that evidence was. Gardner was previously jailed for […]
Several media outlets are up in arms over Senator Jim Bunning‘s tactics in the Senate today blocking voting on a bill that would extend eligibility for “enhanced” unemployment benefits for another 30 days. The bill would also subsidize health insurance for many laid-off workers. Understand that I believe in social programs. I like being an […]
So I went to a friend’s birthday party on Friday. The friend happens to be gay which is important to the story but you’ll have to wait for it. It was a large gathering of people so discussions were somewhat segmented into sections of the table. The bulk of the group was made up of […]
Last night the Flyers played the New Jersey Devils and there were a number of coincidences that were curious. First, just like in the previous game (also against the Devils) the Flyers fell behind 2-0 and came back to win 3-2. However, in this game an apparent goal by the Flyers Scott Hartnell was disallowed. […]
A friend sent me a link this morning to a blog on The Daily Beast about how Republicans don’t seem to have the ability or desire to remember President Ronald Reagan as he actually existed. I found it quite compelling reading as I’d written virtually the same thing eight months ago on my own blog. […]
On Thursday the Philadelphia Flyers met the Pittsburgh Penguins in Pittsburgh. These two teams have been building up a rivalry that’s getting more feisty with each game. Late in the second period, with the Flyers shorthanded killing a penality, Flyers forward Simon Gagne took a shot that appeared, on first glance, to have gone into […]
I often will see technology-based publications make statements that defy even the most common sense. As a bit of a technologist myself I try to guard against the very myopic view that causes these sort of errors in judgement. The Huffington Post is running a story called “12 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade“. As […]
The Philadelphia Flyers have been having a tough time so far this season. They started out great and were picked by several key sources to win the Stanley Cup. Then a losing streak started… and continued…. and then the coach was fired. Now they’ve got a new coach and the losing is still continuing. For […]
Mozilla has been a clear force in the digital communications realm. Their ancestry goes back to the very earliest days of the Internet when most of us connected to it via dedicated phone lines and slow modems. Back then we all wanted Netscape Navigator instead of proprietary solutions provided by so many other sources. Frankly, […]
So I’m doing my normal tech reading and I come across an article about an artificial lens that gives the wearers “HD” vision. I’m hoping this gets here somewhat soon actually. Why? For those who don’t know it several years back I had Lasik surgery and I’m one of the cases where it went wrong. […]
As I’ve mentioned previously many conservatives believe that the Democratic party is the party of hate. Specifically they feel that any conservative woman in politics is hated by the left. Take the case of Sarah Palin. All we hear from Sean Hannity and the other pundits is that everyone on the left fears her and […]
Quite a bit has been said about a story put up by Calvin Woodward of the Associated Press. The story is a fact-check piece he did on Sarah Palin‘s new book, Going Rogue. The conservative blog Politico took issue with the story and managed to create an entirely new talking point that’s exploded across the […]