Blogging Insights–Planning or Pantzing ? TODAY’S QUESTION: Do you outline your posts (planning) or do you roll by the seat of your pants (pantzing) ? When I started this blog, I was ending a forty year career as a technical… Read More ›
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PRIVACY VS SECURITY: FPQ #95
Fandango’s Provocative Question #95: PRIVACY VS SECURITY. It’s all about passwords (I think we need a better system). From Fandango: “There are estimates that there are nearly 25 billion connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices around the globe today. What… Read More ›
PLUTOCRACY OR OLIGARCHY? THE UGLY CHOICE OF THIS UPCOMING ELECTION
We live in a country full of shallow, if not outrightly stupid people. They watch “the news” and believe it’s all lies because an orange-skinned bloke says so. As a woman whose husband was a television news reporter for more… Read More ›
LEICA AND THE JEWS OF GERMANY DURING THE HOLOCAUST
If you needed a good (or better) reason to buy Leica products, other than their extraordinary high quality, here is another which has nothing to do with the quality of lenses or cameras. LEICA AND THE JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST… Read More ›
PRO-LIFERS ARE NOW PRO DEATH – BY ELLIN CURLEY
There are certain hypocrisies and inconsistencies in the Right Wing credo. I have trouble wrapping my head around it. I remember a George Carlin’s joke about the so-called Pro-Life crusade against abortion. Carlin said that their position is that “every… Read More ›
ABSOLUTELY NO ABSOLUTE RIGHTS
Stay at Home, Save Lives, by Rich Paschall While we accept the precept of “freedom of speech,” we also understand that it does not apply to everything in all situations. As you probably have heard often, we are not allowed… Read More ›
THE POINT OF THE HOLIDAY IS GRATITUDE – Marilyn Armstrong
I know that theoretically “Thanksgiving” is about gratitude. Personally, I think it’s much more about overeating than gratitude, but call me skeptical. At age 72, I’ve can remember probably 50 to 60 Thanksgiving dinners and while none of them were… Read More ›
CLUTCHING AT FREEDOM – Marilyn Armstrong
I want everything to last forever. When I buy a television, I don’t expect to ever buy another one. I will keep using the old one until it simply won’t work anymore … or someone gently tells me that I… Read More ›
WORK, HOLIDAYS, AND PERSONAL CHOICE – Marilyn Armstrong
I know you think you are helping people by trying to get everyone to close on holidays, but it isn’t necessarily everyone’s best choice or preference. It might be the right thing for you … but what about me? What about… Read More ›
PLEASE DON’T PASS THE TURKEY – Marilyn Armstrong
For the past few years, there has been an increasing clamor to make everything shut down for Thanksgiving, supposedly so everyone can spend time with their family. Nice, well-meaning sentiment, on the face of it. Except for all the people… Read More ›
PLUTOCRACY AND OLIGARCHY – WHICH ONE ARE WE? – Marilyn Armstrong
We live in a have a country full of shallow, if not outrightly stupid people. They watch “the news” and believe it’s all lies because an orange-skinned bloke says so. As a woman whose husband was a television news reporter… Read More ›
