Silence is Golden


Spinnin wheels got to go round

South Park fans will recognize Mr. Garrison’s invention, the IT, from episode 511.

Now a similar transportation device is finally available, although the control surfaces are not as per Mr. Garrison’s original design.
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Do you know where your children are?

And, if you’re as heavily invested as Ms Dowd in the notion that those ‘killed in Iraq’ are ‘children’, then Mrs Sheehan’s status as grieving matriarch is a bonanza. I agree with Mrs Ryan: they’re not children in Iraq; they’re thinking adults who ‘made a decision to join the Armed Forces and defend our country’. [...]

Live, from the City of Man

While relatively few Americans can bring themselves to say that the deliberate targeting of non-combatants during World War II, regardless of the physics involved, was immoral, our commitment to jus in bello has grown to make the avoidance of “collateral damage” official policy. At least until another hard, less asymmetrical, case comes along. Then it’s [...]

Single Parents

My wife went on a business trip to Chicago yesterday, returning Wednesday. I’ve been taking care of my two daughters and two dogs. I don’t know how single parents manage.

The Joy of Tech

I stumbled across a cartoon series I’d never seen before, The Joy of Tech. Pretty geeky humor; I really liked it.