Rondam Ramblings

Enough politics .  Let's talk about religion. Ever since I was a kid growing up in the deep south I have been mystified by how people ...

Let me confess up front to having an enormous bias here: more than just about anything else in the world, I want to see Donald Trump go down...

You may have noticed that the Ramblings have been quiet for a while .  It has been six weeks since my last post, which I'm pretty sure i...

A few days ago, regular commenter Publius drew my attention to a paper by a fellow named Selim G. Akl entitled " The Myth of Universal ...

If you like a badly made, entirely predictable, not-very-scary,  high-concept pseudo-horror thriller that scrapes the very bottom of the ge...

[See update at the bottom of the post.] I make and sell a security product called the SC4-HSM  which, among other things, acts as a FIDO U...

Donald Trump lies so much that it can be a real challenge to keep up.  It's so challenging, in fact, that the Washington Post had to inv...

Outgoing senator Jeff Flake of Arizona has expressed  bewilderment : that his Republican colleagues are not moving with more dispatch to pro...

From the Washington post comes the news that  Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government busines...

I would not have thought it possible in light of recent events , but Republicans continue to plumb new depths of ignorance and stupidity.  A...

It is an illuminating exercise to go to Google News and do a search for the phrase " without evidence " Here are the top ten resul...

From  Newsweek : During a discussion with host Chris Cuomo on Sunday, Republican political commentator Ana Navarro branded Trump “racist”...

Donald Trump is promising to sign an executive order to end birthright citizenship : President Trump is vowing to sign an executive order...

The suspected mail bomber, Cesar Sayoc , drive a van festooned with right-wing propaganda.  Today the FBI literally covered it up.   With a...

There was a time not so long ago when American politicians still put country above party and chose to work together to remove a corrupt pres...

The Washington Post  reports: The Saudi government acknowledged early Saturday that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed while visiting t...

A  federal judge has dismissed Stormy Daniels' defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump  and ordered her to pay his legal fees: The Cou...

Fred Guttenburg, father of one of the Parkland shooting victims, has done a pretty good job of dressing down  Brett Kavanaugh for complaini...

Dear Governor Brown: When I went to work for NASA as an AI researcher in 1988 there was no World Wide Web.  The first web browser, Netscap...

I was really hoping to leave Fitch's paradox in the rear view mirror, but like a moth to the flame (or perhaps a better metaphor would ...

I stole the title of this entry from  this op ed in The Washington Post , which is worth reading.  It contrasts Brett Kavanaugh's indign...

Back in March I made a prediction : Today I feel  vindicated . Reading the 76 pages of charges against Manafort is like reading an...