Sometimes people forget that ideals are ideals - goals to be attained, not entitlements to be demanded in defiance of all common sense. [More]

There’s a partial solution in our hands to the ongoing energy crisis that we are overlooking.  Perhaps this is because it’s a little inconvenient, it’s a pretty serious change (but a ridiculously easy one) and the energy savings are fractional – for real impact, it would require almost 100% participation. Are you ready for the idea?  Here it is: Urban Headlight Zones. To wit:  In areas that are already adequately lit by municipal or state fixtures – cities, urban highways, tollways, anyplace that is well-lighted at night (we can even define well-lighted if you want) – elimin... [More]

So it’s been a pretty crazy year for me.   One year ago I was living in North Carolina with my folks.  I’d been in NC for 15 years, and had long since decided to leave.  No offense to my many wonderful friends there, each of whom I love to some degree and for some reason, but it was never my place, I never wanted to be there, and I never felt like I fit in anywhere.  I’d long since decided that I wanted to move back to Kalamazoo and put my roots down there, but had no idea how I was going to make that happen – vague notions of expanding my web design business into a mult... [More]

A few words about talking, and about doing, as relates to my life today... [More]

BlogEngine.Net has a new release version out, but the upgrade process looks just complex enough that I probably won’t tackle it again until my next day off (which I really hope is Monday). In the “I just can’t believe this” department:  Tried to sneak out with my van for a quick spin to the store the other day and blew a tire a quarter-mile from home…just far enough to make sure there was no repairing the old one after driving it back.  Then I hit my b-i-l up for a ride to the store since he’d just got home…and we smacked a deer.  Suddenly that whole “having my car on the road... [More]

My objection isn't that the anti-abortion lobby bought ad time. It's a free country. My objection is that we as a nation continue to allow bottom-feeding fear-mongering snake-oil salesmen like James Dobson and his crew of blue-nosed hypocrites to coexist and be given equal intellectual consideration with facts and objective reality. [More]