Rondam Ramblings

I can't say I'm even a little bit surprised that the summit with North Korea has fallen through .  I wouldn't even bother bloggi...

[This post is the third part of a series.  You should read parts  one  and  two  before reading this or it won't make any sense.] So w...

This post is (part of) the answer to a puzzle I posed here .  Read that first if you haven't already. To make this discussion concrete...

The New York Times reports that  California is now world's 5th largest economy .  Only the U.S. as a whole, China, Japan and Germany are...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is erupting .  So is one in Vanuatu .  And there is increased activity in Yellowstone .  Hang on to your hats, ...

Time to take a break from politics and sociology and geek out about quantum mechanics for a while. Consider a riff on a Michelson-style in...

The Washington Post  reports that: Two African American men arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks last month have reached a settlement with...

Richard Nixon is rightfully remembered as one of the great villains of American democracy.  But he wasn't all bad.  He opened relations...

Just in case there was the slightest ember of hope in your mind that Republicans actually care about religious freedom and are not just odio...

[Jack Phillips is the owner of the Masterpiece Cake Shop in Lakewood, Colorado.  Mr. Phillips is being sued by the Colorado Civil Rights Com...

I've been quiet lately in part because I'm sinking back into the pit of despair when I think about politics.  The spinelessness and...

One of the arguments made by established taxi companies against ride-sharing companies like Lyft and Uber is that the latter's passenger...

Just sayin'.

I was contemplating whether or not to write about how incredibly stupid it is to try to solve the school shooting problem by arming teachers...

Over four years since it was first introduced, Ars Technica asks  if it is time to take the Hyperloop seriously .  And four years since I fi...

I was reading about the long anticipated release of the  Democratic rebuttal  to the famous Republican dossier memo.  I've been avoiding...

There has been some debate on Hacker News lately about what makes Lisp cool , in particular about whether the secret sauce is homo-iconici...

[Inspired by this comment thread .] The Tortoise is standing next to a railroad track when Achilles, an ancient Greek warrior, happens by...