I'm sorry for Ghost(ing) you! 2016! That's the last time I published an article on this blog. So much has changed since then. My work has taken up an enormous amount of time as we've gone through some
Technology Confessions of a Cord Cutter Last spring I finally cut the cord. It's something I had blogged about before, and while it's not all rainbows and unicorns, the cost savings has been worth it. If you've heard about
Politics Hillary Received More Votes Guys and gals, enough about Hillary having secured more total votes than Trump. The Popular Vote is a completely irrelevant and meaningless number. If the Indians had blown out the Cubs in each
Politics You Don't Fear Donald Trump This post is primarily for my friends, family and anonymous internet snowflakes who are devastated by the election of Donald Trump, though the principles I present here apply no matter where you fall
Reviews Snowden Our usual crew went to see Snowden this past weekend. I had already seen the Citizen Four documentary, but I was interested to see Oliver Stone's take on the topic. Overall I think
Politics Your Tax Dollars at Work I wish I could say this was a work of fiction.US Border Patrol subjected a 54yr old female citizen to hours of invasive body searches after being detained at the border looking
Politics Lack of Common Sense Gun Control Laws All I keep hearing in the news lately is that we need to pass "common sense" gun laws to prevent tragedies like what happened recently in Orlando and before that in Newtown, CT.
Politics It Couldn't Happen Here, Right? 72 Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation In Boston (1775)Boston – National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and
Business Don't Follow Your Passion Huge fan of Mike Rowe and the work he does at the mikeroweWORKS Foundation. Really enjoyed the speech he gives for PragerU's 2016 commencement. We need more people like him.
Politics Hiding the Truth of Saudi Involvement By now everyone should realize we haven't been told the entire truth of 9/11. In a move to shed a bit more light on the subject, Congress is currently considering a bill
Politics "Fair" Workweek Law Would Be Anything But Arlene Violet wrote a very interesting piece about the Fair Workweek legislation currently being proposed in the RI Legislature. From the article:It is infuriating to see people who have little or no
Technology How a Driverless Car Sees the Road Amazing talk by Chris Urmson of Google talking about their driverless car program.
Politics Every Normal Man Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.~ H. L. MenckenHow I feel about the political process right about now.
Gaming A Good Price for a Game No one really knows. Name a price point and a game and you'll have people argue it's too expensive, it's too cheap, and so on and so forth. Pricing is an inexact science,
Personal We Find the Defendant I didn't want to be selected to serve on the jury -- I had a lot of stuff going on at work and the case sounded awful. In fact I ended up being
Politics Open Letter to the RNC An open letter to the Republican National Committee:I received your affiliation letter recently, and when I read it, the following passage stood out at me:As a freedom-loving individual who shares our
Sports Paying College Athletes College sports is a multi-billion dollar industry and yet it's against NCAA rules to pay the very people who make the industry possible. This at the same time the NCAA President earns almost
Sports A Look Behind the NFL Curtain Written by Eben Britton, a former right tackle in the NFL, on what it took him to stay in the league as long as he did.Continue to full article
Politics If We Want To Stop Terrorism, We Should Stop Supporting Terrorists In the wake of the barbaric Paris terror attacks, everyone is arguing over what we should do to stop further terrorism.Some say we need more war against Islamic countries … or more spying
Sports Mizzou Protest a Sham I never followed the recent protests at the University of Missouri all that closely but to force the resignation of a school President (basically via extortion), I thought whatever caused it must have
Politics Snowden Vindicated in Court Decision In the most forceful of ways D.C. District Court Judge Richard Leon smacked down the NSA's bulk metadata collection as violating the 4th Amendment and issued an injunction, ordering the NSA to
Politics Online Fantasy Football Banned in New York It is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multibillion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country. Today we have sent a clear
Sports Military Tributes at Sporting Events Evidently the Dept of Defense has paid the NFL more than $6MM over the last 4 years to honor military servicemen during games. I, like most people I suspect, believed these displays were
