Archive for May, 2009
I submit the strongest argument in favor of universal healthcare is that it will actually increase entrepreneurship. I’m going to use my own case as an example.
I’ve got three people. We can’t get group insurance around here (there are cooperatives, often through chambers of commerce and other such organizations, that are done solely [...]
Just a bit less than sixteen years ago, I was an armor platoon leader preparing to go to NTC. We were leaving in mid-May, returning in mid-June. My wife was very pregnant, but the due date wasn’t till the beginning of July. After some discussion, I agreed I’d do my professional duty. [...]
I hate texting. Actually that’s not completely fair. I like the concept, I hate doing it.
The reason is that texting is commonly understood as sending messages from a device that lacks a fullsized (or close to it) keyboard. Thus you have to hunt and peck or double-thumb the device (regardless of whether [...]
I’ve been telling folk this one for almost a decade now, ever since Vermont allowed homosexuals to have “civil unions”, but with the flurry of states allowing single-sex marriages by law I figure we’re fast approaching the Big Blowup.
The event will be something that brings about Loving v Virginia part II.
Broadly, some couple married in [...]
I’ve cranked out two of these and tried very hard to resist pumping out the third on the same day. Nope – gonna print, then ponder some other stuff for a while. For those interested, here are the links to the first and second articles in this group.
Ebooks won’t kill libraries. In [...]
Will electronic print kill physical print? In a word, no. In a few more words, no, but it will change it. In a lot of words we have my blogpost.
I want to get into how ebooks and other electronic publishing will change libraries (but not kill them), but the discussion of electronic [...]
I’ve tried to pull this together several times and erased it. Silly me, forgetting two important rules – if you don’t write it, you don’t get better at writing; Blogs aren’t ‘final publish’. (Though I still will try to avoid verbal diarrhea. Well, stream of consciousness unthinking dumps. The handful of [...]
I had a thought the other day, and for a change I’m going to write it down.
I see thousands of articles that say, “Torture does not work.” It does, and that’s an insidious part of the problem.
Torture does work. So does commuting to work on a unicycle. There are narrow, rare situations [...]
