Two wasted votes
I’ve heard a lot this political season about not wasting your vote by voting for a 3rd party. That if you vote your conscience that you’re condemning America to four years of Clinton or Trump. They are, it is said,…
My Party Left Me
The year was 1980. I was all of 6 years old. I asked my dad if he was going to vote for Jimmy Carter to be re-elected. He asked me why he would do that, and I responded that “things didn’t…
The Revolution Will Be Complete
There is a quote from Nineteen Eighty-Four that came to mind when I read the recent story about the language guide put out by the University of New Hampshire: “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to…
Fixing the_excerpt
Over on Spamtacular, I’ve had some problems with are based around my somewhat heavy use of Academic Press (a plugin that I use for creating citations and the bibliography you’ll find at the bottom of many posts). My problem is…
I’d Better Get a Heavy-Duty Tire Gauge
So, The Word I am hearing is that John McCain is somehow an idiot for taking issue with Barak Obama’s insistence that we need to properly inflate our tires and get tune-ups to save as much gasoline as “all the…
Lawsuit: Woman can’t be president
Douglas Wallace claims that a woman cannot be President. His reasoning? Douglas Wallace, 80, contends that because the U.S. Constitution relies on the pronouns “he” and “his” in describing the duties of the president, no woman can hold the office.…