Archives for 2022

Have you ever wondered, ‘how do you really know what’s going on the other side of the world?’ My guess is that most people just accept things the way they’re reported in the news. Having been to a number of other countries that also had an interval in the news spotlight at one time, it’s […]

Idiots.  Joe Biden, by fiat (and Maryland, by legislated law) just attempted to outlaw ghost guns. I say attempted because these regulations will not stop ghost gun manufacture, distribution, or acquisition. Even if it did, ghost guns accounted for less than 4% of use in crime. What Biden and Maryland just did was usher in […]

Maybe it’s time for a fluff piece discussing a far-off election. I say fluff because there is no insider or reliable way for anyone to tell what’s going to happen in 2024. I’ve watched headline after headline for the past six months or more wherein someone declares they know if Trump will run for President. […]

This week, there are two sets of haunting images on the web that should be instructive for a lot of people. The first set are images from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the aftermath of Russian forces being driven out. Corpses, evidence of torture, execution, and rape of civilians. At the beginning of the […]

Relatively few people are aware that Bill Gates has made predictions (or threats) about how we’ll feed ourselves in the years to come. He says humans must abandon meat for the good of the planet and we’re doomed if we don’t. Instead, we must eat a meat substitute made in a factory or we must […]

Most of us are dependent on news cycles to understand what’s happening in places like Ukraine. At about six weeks into the war there, one that presented us with the prospect of WWIII, that war has mostly disappeared from our newsfeed except from tertiary coverage. Is it that much less important? Given that Ukraine is […]