We need Universal Health Insurance, like yesterday. I’ve been absent from Medium for a while now. Sorry about that, this is a hobby. I haven’t had time for hobbies, nor money for much of anything either. I’m “fortunate” enough to be poor enough to have Medicaid, the only decent health…

Why Stack Exchange and similar sites are marvelous tools and toxic communities. “Read the docs!” The first thing out of the keyboard of every useless simp on so-called discussion forums relating to programming. Stack Exchange is one of the worst for this. I absolutely never am going to ask a…

Hope in the New year — Something occurred to me today between my morning walk and this article by Joselromero $$$. Maybe this polarization isn’t a bad thing after all. Now wait, before you click away, let me expand. The polarization is definitely bad, it causes us to hate our neighbors and in some cases, spill…

Thinking is hard… In our heated political environment, everyone with a voice is pretty much saying something. Most of it, in my arrogant opinion, is noise. Nobody is focused on the actual problems that face us in any meaningful way if you get above the level of bloggers. Bloggers, on…

How is the question — Violence solves everything. That is not an endorsement, but a statement of observable historical fact. The map above depicts the world in 1914. The one below illustrates my point.

Our deep divisions serve a certain segment of the population very well. They are the bread and circuses of America. Guess what? That segment is not white people. …

Increasingly, for all sides, labels are problematic. I’m about solutions. — Recently, our newly appointed editor, Douglas Giles, PhD, wrote a piece that kicked me in the face. No, it wasn’t in any way targeted at me and was an excellent piece. I highly recommend you read it before continuing on here. Because it’s the inspiration for this article. If You Want to Defeat Republicans, Stop Trying to Defeat Republicans Fighting nonsense with nonsense doesn’t workmedium.com

Or, Why I will never again spend a penny at Walgreens — Just over a week ago, the Pfizer vaccine became available for my daughters. We set them up to get their shots immediately, and drove to Boise to do so. We had to do that (or so we thought) because it wasn’t yet available here. Now, Boise is not a long…