While reading through gaming rulebooks, I started musing on the rules of life. That leads off into many different tangents, as musings tend to do. But what I wanted to focus on was the core concept of the Rule of Law. On the surface, rules exist in order to allow Read more…
Yesterday, I published a post for the first time in about two years. I say “published” instead of “wrote” because I’ve started posts in that time but never actually published them. I was wallowing in “what would be the point”. Now, I’ve come to recognize the point is to do Read more…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
We just got back from a family trip out to Disney World. I grew up in Florida and we had made many family trips over there during my childhood. A few years back we had taken my son there for a day while visiting my sister who still lives in Read more…
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…
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…