Musk’s false equivalence I came out critically of Elon Musk buying Twitter. First and foremost, it’s getting tiring of oligarchical billionaires buying and owning the whole world! But also, as crucially, his proposal to enable “free speech” is both a bit hollow (I don’t trust him) and a bit foolishly…

Prior to the Civil War, Congress passed several Fugitive Slave Acts, but the one that really impacted the nation was the act enacted in 1850. [1] The act effectively forced northern states to help retrieve escaped slaves and return them to their masters, a well as enacting penalties on those…

Decision to NOT compete-2022 Tough decision but decided to transfer out of Lumberjack100 mountain bike race and 210 mile Coast-to-Coast Gravel race for 2022. Those two BIG events are far too important to me not to mention the costs for the event and lodging and travel to go attempt them…

When scholars review the stages of human society they refer to “ages.” We have had the Stone Age, Iron Age, Bronze Age, Industrial Age and the Information Age, for example. But then we come to what I have long referred to as the Subscription Age. The spark for this article…

Blast from the past, copying from my old blog. Links to items mentioned are at the end — — - Joni and I went to Dublin for vacation from March 19 through March 25th. The impetus for the travel was that when I was living in China last year for…

This may turn out to be a rather long article, but bear with me. I will be delving into the concepts of progressive rock, classical music & symphonies, and the idea of a concept album in rock music. …

ANNOUNCEMENT: I had been considering running for state legislature in the newly drawn house district #82. But as of March 14, 2022 I accepted a new engineering position with a local manufacturing company and have decided to not pursue political office at this time. Anyone that knows me knows I…

So this is how misinformation gets spread especially from Fox News. Add another social media platform a guy railed about not being able to use alternative medicines and that and then he showed me this image below about a John Hopkins report that lockdowns, bans, abd losures had nothing to…

There’s been a lot of discussion as how to slow the spread of misinformation and bad information on social media. There seems to be no consensus as to how to accomplish this, but I do have a couple ideas I would like to present. My first idea is to have…