It’s been some week, hasn’t it? What with omicron showing up in the US, Japan banning all travel for foreigners – something I happen to agree with – the Supreme Court poised to strike down Roe v Wade and lest we forget, another senseless school shooting, it’s been a depressing
Continue readingThe paradox of low expectations.
I spent yesterday working on the site after we experienced a Denial of Service attack on Wednesday and Thursday. I’ve pretty well isolated where I think it came from and have taken proactive steps “under the hood” to keep it from happening again. Nevertheless, I am flattered that my modest
Continue readingI’ve more than earned the right to feel the rage that I feel.
Without a doubt, the last few months have been depressing, to say the least. First came the Delta resurgence, which hit many places – even ones that were here to fore considered “safe.” Then, it was made worse in states like Florida and Texas, where their governments just turned a
Continue readingThe great resignation is not what the oligarchs think it is.
One of the things that led me away from the Republican party forever was its descent into madness – punctuated by a fiendish adaptation of cruelty and selfishness. What I could not abide, as one who actually has made a study of economics, is the way they blithely dismissed the
Continue readingOut and about at the old homestead.
Some people say they love New York. Not me. My three favorite cities are all in Asia: Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Sadly, Hong Kong is being slowly destroyed by Carrie Lam and Xi Jin Shit for Brains. But as I proved this month – Tokyo survives! And it’s still
Continue readingHistoric Days
I have not posted in over a month because I was away from home and back on the sacred soil of Japan. It was nice to return to Nihon, especially since I had not been there in over three years. However, travel to Japan in this new world of COVID
Continue readingUnlinked and out. The steady decline of Linked In.
According to Linked In’s own mission statement, the purpose of Linked In is: ” is simple: connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. … Today, LinkedIn leads a diversified business with revenues from membership subscriptions, advertising sales, and recruitment solutions under the leadership of Ryan Roslansky.” If
Continue readingWaving the bloody shirt.
On Twitter a couple of days ago, a brilliant guy named David Neiwert published a long Twitter thread on the tactic that conservatives and their deranged followers have used to discredit valid criticism of the atrocities they turn a blind eye to. The tactic is known as “waving the bloody
Continue reading20 years.
Over the past 10 years, I have increasingly come to dread the arrival of September 11th. It is the day the United States will remember a terrible criminal act in its history. 2977 people died that day from a brazen terror attack pulled off by 19 terrorists, mostly of Saudi
Continue readingWill the Navy learn the lessons it needs to?
Despite all the blowback from folks in certain circles and the continued whining of the surgeaholics, I remain firm in my conviction that getting the hell out of Afghanistan was the right thing to do. Most of the objections to the policy decision have no factual basis anyways – and
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