A Week

So…this has been a week. The protests continue to rage across the country. Houston had more than 60k march. Other big cities had similar turn outs. Then smaller marches and rallies happened this weekend. I attended a few local ones. And when a small white town like Friendswood, TX has Read more…

If you…

If you aren’t outraged by the murder of Ahmed Aubrey… If you think the lockdown needs to be lifted so you can get a haircut… If you support armed white men storming a government people but opposed black men kneeling at a football game… If you think carrying a gun Read more…

Containment

When the early reports about Coronavirus came out, I didn’t pay much attention. We traveled to Disney World for a week in those early days and the extent of the thought was that if it were to spread around the world, Disney would be a great place to contract it. Read more…

3D Printing

I tried my hand at using a 3D printer recently. The workshop I use for wood working also has a 3D printer and that sounded cool. So I learned how to use it, which is surprisingly simple. It’s a bit more complicated than printing something on paper, though, given the Read more…

Corruption Breeds Corruption

When you let a corrupt president off for corruption guess what happens? He goes and pardons people convicted on corrupt crimes. What do you suppose is going to happen next? If you said anything other more people will do more corrupt things with the expectation that they can get away Read more…

Thank You Mitt Romney

That’s a phrase I’d never thought I’d hear myself say. I can’t say I agree with Mitt on much of anything politically. But I can certainly respect him as a human being. As the only Republican with the courage to vote against party lines to find Donald Trump guilty of Read more…

Impeachment

Well, it’s begun. The third impeachment trial of a US president. I don’t have much to say at this point. I have my fears that this will be nothing more than a show trial with everything being preordained along party lines.  But I might be surprised. In away, this situation Read more…

Peak Trump

There’s a campaign GIF for Trump that has him photoshopped to become Thanos. He claims his reelection is inevitable. Then,  snaps his fingers and Nancy Pelosi and a bunch of Democrats are wiped from existence. This GIF works on so many levels. First, I mean, come on, Thanos is the BAD Read more…

Housing First

Listening to a “Factually” podcast they talked about the housing and homeless problems in America. The guest, Dr. Sam Tsemberis, described his research working with the homeless which had shown how the most effective method to helping people who were homeless was to give them a place to live. This Read more…