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I promised in my analysis of the 2008 presidential election that, “When [President Barack Obama (D)] walks down the wrong paths, I will call him out. When he walks down the right ones, I will support him.” After getting to call him out quite a lot regarding the monstrosity of a health care bill he [...]

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is not my friend. I’ve always ended up spending more of my time disappointed in them than satisfied with their performance.
I got a letter from Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA 10th)—nothing interesting, just a boring form letter. Rep. Wolf’s office sent the letter on February 4, and USPS apparently processed [...]

Here’s something you might not have expected to find in my home: a retail copy of Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium.
No, I’m not abandoning Mac OS X (or Ubuntu Linux, for that matter). While Windows has not been my primary operating system for a long time, I have pretty much always had a copy of [...]

In light of the madness that has occurred in the halls of power over the last several years—trillion dollar bailouts, nationalization of the auto and banking industries, a requirement that we buy health insurance whether we want it or not, etc.—I want to remind our officials of the solemn oaths they took upon taking their [...]

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a sweeping health care reform bill by a narrow 219-212 majority. This version of the bill was passed by the U.S. Senate in December, and will now proceed to the President’s desk for signature or veto. President Barack Obama (D) is expected to sign the bill.
The House has [...]

Contrary to the way it has been couched in the media and elsewhere, the debate going on in Congress tonight is not between ‘pro-health care’ and ‘anti-health care.’ There are a number of accurate and semi-accurate ways of presenting the argument, but that isn’t one of them. People like me who vehemently oppose the plan [...]

Most educated people are well-aware that ‘classical’ depictions of Jesus—the European look and long, brown, wavy hair—are not a realistic depiction of what He probably looked like. Critics of Christianity will sometimes use this to pick on us for our supposed lack of scientific and historical curiosity, as-if our artistic depictions of Jesus have any [...]

Super busy this weekend with a whole lot of catch-up stuff…buying a mattress, working on some techie stuff, and various other to-dos. I’m only half done so my posting may be a little sparse for a while yet.
In the interest of not leaving my faithful readers hanging, here is a picture I took all the [...]

Am I the only one who hates daylight saving time and thinks its a big, pointless waste of time? (Get it? Waste of time?)
First and foremost, daylight is a zero-sum game. Whatever numbers we use to identify sunrise and sunset, the amount of daylight is the same. When the U.S. government decided to expand daylight [...]