Rondam Ramblings

I can think of no better example of erudition without substance than George Will's recent column in the Washington Post entitled, ...

Donald Trump says so many outrageous things that there just isn't time to get outraged over all of them.  Case in point: Donald Trump to...

No really, he did.  Almost  in so many words : “It’s frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write,” T...

[UPDATE: This post was originally said that the SegWit2X fork will happen on November 1.  In fact it is scheduled to occur on block 494,764 ...

I am a German Jew, a descendant of holocaust survivors.  I am also a Southern boy, having spent my formative years from age 5 through 24 in ...

I am a big believer in keeping an open mind .  But there comes a time when a social argument converges to the point where you have to say it...

By now you have probably heard about James Damore, the  Google engineer who was fired for writing a memo about ... well, that's where ...

Bill Maher completely destroys the last pretense Republicans may have had of hewing to any actual principles by putting Donald Trump's w...

Yesterday Donald Trump  threatened in no uncertain terms to use military force against North Korea : “North Korea best not make any more t...

Donald Trump during the campaign: Donald Trump in office: I wonder if he even knows what the T in LGBT stands for. The bigot...

I must confess to indulging in a certain amount of schadenfreude  watching Donald Trump squirm .  I have been an unwavering never-Trumper si...

Back in 2005 I suddenly found myself sitting on a big pile of money after the Google IPO so I did what any young nouveau-riche high-tech dil...

I predicted the existence of a Russia-gate smoking gun back in March , but I didn't expect it to actually turn up so soon.  And I certai...

1776 When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them wi...

Like a movie monster that keeps rising from the dead long after you think it has been dispatched, the American Health Care Act, and the Sena...

For a US Navy warship to allow itself to be very nearly destroyed by a civilian cargo ship virtually requires an epic career-ending screwup....