Recently I spent a few months planning and orchestrating a successful venture of building my own computer. I didn’t start off wanting to build my own computer. My young family wanted a desktop to replace my good, but under-performing laptop so that we could do so much more. Being a fairly tech savvy individual, I …
Though I’d rather pursue thoughts about more general concepts of life, religion, politics, family, etc. I cannot help but be intrigued by the U.S. Budget and how it has all affected us these past few years. Indeed I have found that life, religion, and so forth has actually found its way into the budget, and …
An old play on words says if pro-gress is getting things done, then the opposite of progress is con-gress. Ask a Congressman/woman, however, and they would likely have a significant portfolio of achievements to share with you to counter that claim. It is my intent to share some musings on how both of these perceptions …
Is it possible that in social change progress, that concepts or social revolutions can become obsolete? Modes of governance become obsolete, the language we have with one another becomes obsolete, and traditions such as a military service tradition becomes obsolete. But what if not the mode of governance becomes obsolete, but the idea that the …
Let me preface this by saying I am not a professional, nor do I do this for a living. However, after having lived with a computer my whole life, having at least two computers in the home, and probably hundreds if not thousands of experiences to make repairs or troubleshoot issues with computers, I have …
NOTE: THIS POST IS NOT COMPLETE You are still invited to read and participate This is an ongoing post which I will be adding more content to. I hope to include actual facts and figures, document references, better, more complete examples, source documents for Tyrannicus, Xenophon, the family, etc., and so on. Please forgive me … Continue reading »
Reblogged from Political Musings-At the Sunset of My Life: Back in my teaching days, many years ago, one of the things I liked to ask the class to consider was this: Imagine a government agency with only two tasks: (1) building statues of Benedict Arnold and (2) providing life-saving medications to children. If this agency’s … Continue reading »
Let me preface this by saying that I am from Richland, WA neighbor to the Hanford Nuclear Facility which is home to 177 Nuclear waste tanks from WWII atom bomb development. The Hanford site has been converted from a plutonium manufacturing site to a Nuclear power generation center that supplies a good proportion of Washington … Continue reading »
It’s a frustration common to genuine conversational debate that we’re all guilty of at some time or another. I’m guilty of it. Politicians, doctors, faith leaders, your parents, etc. we are all guilty of it. In hind sight, we know it was wrong to use a logical fallacy, and yet we still use them? Is … Continue reading »
Okay, granted, this is more of a phrase, but it still gives evidence to our terrible habit of saying things without thinking about what we’re saying. This one should be simple to point out. This phrase is usually used when someone is either trying to create uninteresting conversation, or as a rude response to someone’s … Continue reading »
In conjunction with the Word Rescue series, I introduce the Word Police series with a different kind of work that we often take for granted: Decadent or decadence. I recently hear the word decadent on a T.V. commercial. I’ve heard it many times prior and never thought much of it. However, this last time, I … Continue reading »
I’m not really sure how this topic came to mind, but it did, and I found as I pondered, I did not immediately have an answer. I had anecdotes, but no real answer. Further, as I decided to do some research to find what others said, I was quite disturbed by what I saw/read. Overwhelmingly, … Continue reading »
