Rondam Ramblings

You would think that after the disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq that Republicans would have learned that starting a war in that part of t...

And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no o...

It has been nearly five months now since I published my open letter to Democratic candidates and organizations .  Since then I have, unsurpr...

I want to debunk once and for all this idea that "science is just another religion".  It isn't, for one simple reason: all rel...

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry over this : Federal judges have issued President Donald Trump stinging legal rebukes in the early...

The ink is barely dry on the (drama-free) certification of the election results and I'm already getting calls from organizations and can...

A while back I wrote : I've had many, many failures in my life.  (Hm, maybe I should write a blog post about that.) This is that post.  ...

Don Geddis left a comment on my last post .  My reply grew far longer than would reasonably fit into a comment reply so I decided to post i...

Nearly two months ago now I wrote: It's getting harder and harder to find a reason to keep doing this.  My opportunity costs are high, ...

I'm writing this at 9AM Pacific standard time on November 6, the morning after the election.  Not all the dust has quite settled yet, bu...

As long as I'm getting things on the record (while I still can without too much fear of reprisal) I want to endorse a video by Legal Eag...

 I'm too depressed to elaborate much on this, but I just wanted to go on the record with this prediction before the election.  Why do I ...

Yesterday we were treated to the sight of a major party nominee at what was supposed to be a town hall meeting suddenly stop taking question...

Introduction This post is ostensibly about an obscure technical issue in distributed systems, but it's really about human communications...