Category: news and things
The F1 racing world was rocked by Romain Grosjean’s absolute terrifying crash last week in Bahrain. His car went most of the way through a metal barrier, split in half, and caught fire. Grosjean...
I have talked before about how conservative media (particularly talk radio and news) have come to dominate a large cross section of American life. President Donald Trump is perhaps the embodiment of that concept,...
I am an optimistic realist in my day to day living. Even in the worst of times, I can usually see ways that things move forward, progress, and grow. I think most people are...
Let’s be honest now: We all know this was going to happen at some point. If you lived through the dot com bubble, the housing crash, black Monday, and a whole host of other...
I don’t do tons of product reviews, but recently I have purchased a few new things and also had a few things around for a while that I think I need to say something...
2017 has been a pretty horrible year in the world, all considered. We find ourselves closer to World War III than at any other time, the internet has turned into a cesspool, and pretty...
I was reading a story today that Volvo has pretty much said that the “fuel only” car is as dead as a dodo and that by 2019, all of their cars will either be...
2016 was certainly a year for the record books in F1, but not exactly for all the right reasons. The good news on the racing side is that 2016 saw a first time champion...
I am old enough to remember a time when there was no such thing as political correctness, where you could call a fat person fat, a black person black, and people who now mentally...
I often read the site Techdirt, in part because I find it endlessly fascinating how a small group of people can twist and convoluted everything in the universe to fit their small, limited agenda....
I think shaming is perhaps the 2015 buzzword / trend / excuse that most annoys me. Well, not actually the shaming, but rather people who insist on taking every negative opinion and trying to...
Without a doubt, the killing of 9 people in a church is a tragedy. That it was 9 black people killed by a racist white supremacists gives it all the ugly overtones that haunt...
Technology is both a wonderful thing and a bit of a curse. The internet allows us to have all the knowledge in the world at our finger tips, yet we tend to wallow in...
Well, season 1 of CSI Cyber has come and gone. For what it’s worth, it’s a halfie season, and that is often a very hard place to work from. For a show like this,...