AN OPEN LETTER TO THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE: (On Farm Forclosures)
[The following appeared in a facebook quote. I’m reposting it here in accordance with the author’s (Dr David Pascoe BVSc PhD OVH Repro) request that it be shared widely. It was first published in...
View ArticleProgramming Sucks
[Linking to this for all of us who make our living digging tunnels under Mordor …] Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week...
View ArticlePI Day (3-14) 2019 Puzzle
This puzzle showed up in my twitter feed today, so I thought I’d post the solution as it makes use of both algebra and deductive reasoning. I’ll point out that the problem statement as seen in initial...
View ArticleICU
In David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000 Years, he goes into a lengthy discussion about slavery, pointing out that a slave is “invisible”. They have no identity, and must perform their functions without...
View ArticleHidden Agendas
You won’t see this in the media. How many of times have we seen this predicate, even in just the past few weeks? When I see this, I read it as, “What you’re about to read is almost certainly bullshit,...
View ArticleAmy Coney-Barrett: The Origins of the Specious
In the course of our lives we meet people who we consider brilliant intellectually and/or lovely and decent. But, we are all only human, and sooner or later, you’ll find a place in their psyche that is...
View ArticleCollateral Damage
Ellen stops off at the grocery store on her way in to work to pick up a few things she’ll need. She pauses by the hand sanitizer and thinks, “I just washed my hands a little while ago. I don’t need to...
View ArticleKeys and Lockdowns
When an outbreak occurs, the FIRST thing you need to do is isolate it. “Lockdown” is one, usually effective way to do this. It should be undertaken along with tracing to determine whence it originated...
View ArticleThe Crow’n
Americans have a somewhat complicated view of monarchies, generally, and the British one in particular. It’s not unlike the fascination with a bad car crash or train wreck. Aside from that, I think I...
View ArticleAmerica: Exit, Stage Right
The majority has overruled Roe and Casey for one and only one reason: because it has always despised them, and now it has the votes to discard them. The majority thereby substitutes a rule by judges...
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