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% par... [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... [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 st... [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]

What started off being a quick update about the site and it's content and somehow turned in to a stream-of-consciousness rant on a bunch of different stuff, mostly centering around the overarching current theme of my life, "Stuff I Need To Be Doing NOW"... [More]

So as I’m working on this new look for the site, I’ve also been doing a lot of thinking.  Well, I’m always doing a lot of thinking, which sounds arrogant unless you do it in which case you know that it’s often more curse than blessing. I digress; what I’m thinking about is how to get you kind f... [More]

Ah, the retcon.  Short for “retroactive continuity” and originally coined in the world of comic books, the retcon is a way of rewriting history.  When done well, it can take a minor plot point that has arisen of its own volition (and if you’ve ever done creative writing, ... [More]

Obviously the site makeover continues apace.  Please let me know in the comments here if you see things that don’t seem to work for you, background colors or text colors I’ve forgotten to change, or things that you just think suck. Since I don’t have the time to integrate the... [More]