TweetJudge Joe Anderson (my fellow Rotarian) says Rachel Duncan can’t be held responsible for Tom Sponseller’s suicide. And I think he’s probably right. A good, dispassionate ruling. Was the 2½-year sentence adequate? I’m sort of torn about that. On the one hand, I have a problem with crowding our prisons with anyone who isn’t violent, […]
Tweet Fascinating piece in the WSJ today, posing the following question: Would Total Information Awareness have stopped James Eagan Holmes? You perhaps remember the fuss. That program by the Defense Department was curtailed when the Senate voted to revoke funding amid a privacy furor in 2003. The project had been aimed partly at automatically collecting […]
TweetIf you’ve never watched “Lost,” and intend to someday, don’t read this, because I’m going to give some stuff away. I didn’t watch it when it was on, maybe because I had seen bits of it, and it made no sense, or so I inferred. Now, I have almost finished watching all six seasons on […]
TweetThe Op-Ed Page By Paul V. DeMarco Guest Columnist It’s a question I pose seriously to my fellow citizens who plan to vote for Donald Trump if he runs again. Let’s ignore the personalities for a moment and compare two theoretical candidates. We will stipulate that our two candidate’s policy positions are indistinguishable. Candidate A […]
TweetMore in my quest to increase awareness of, and prompt discussion about, the ways that social media and other apps that are desperate for our attention are driving America mad — and leading to such unprecedented dysfunction as the presidential election of 2016, and the recent attack on the U.S. Capitol… Any of y’all listen […]
TweetEDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s a correction that proves the point of this post. While I knew I had quite a few ancestors who owned slaves, just for contrast I mentioned one great-great grandfather (Henry Waller) who I said did NOT. I was wrong. A first cousin has written to let me know Henry owned at least […]
TweetIn reaction to a previous post, Bryan Caskey wrote: What a stupid time to be alive. Yep. None stupider, in U.S. history. I’m just so embarrassed for my country. And every day for the next few years, I’ll wake up and have to be embarrassed again. And who knows how long it will last? Our political […]
TweetI‘ve just typed my last good-faith response to someone who refuses to deal with me — or the rest of y’all — in good faith. As I explained before, we are going to have a serious, grown-up conversation about Energy, whatever it takes. And yet I found myself actually trying seriously to answer this comment […]
TweetI just want you to know, my offer still stands By BRAD WARTHENEDITORIAL PAGE EDITORDEAR McCLATCHY: This is to assure you that my offer is still open. You folks have a lot on your plate right now, what with sorting out your acquisition of a company three times your size and the need to […]