Monthly Archives: January 2020

A column in the Baltimore Sun says exactly what I’ve been thinking the past few days. It’s fair for some conservative writers, like Charlie Sykes and Matt Lewis, to characterize the Republicans as dupes and stooges or parroting the Kremlin … Continue reading →

Honestly, I don’t ‘get’ drag-queen story hour. Continue reading →

This is as good a précis of the difference between science and religion as you’re likely to ever encounter. When an engineer grabs his computation pad and begins to analyze a problem, whether it needs a dozen pages or 100-pages, … Continue reading →

Scientists and engineers learn quickly that propositions must be tested at the boundaries, that generalizations can go ruinously haywire when circumstances approach the edge of the normal range. Lawyers, maybe not so much; some seem to think that’s a good … Continue reading →

Trump by now was in one of his rages. He was so angry that he wasn’t taking many breaths. All morning, he had been coarse and cavalier, but the next several things he bellowed went beyond that description. They stunned … Continue reading →