Thoughts and words from some interesting authors
★★★☆☆ All the Old Knives is a difficult movie to watch. This wasn’t a failure of acting, it was a failure of philosophy. That, “You have to have a gunfight (or other action) within the first minute to hook the view” philosophy really ended up tanking this movie. Because they…
★★★★★ Smiley’s People is the standard by which all other spy movies are judged. In whole or part it is based on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre’. Quite possibly the only good thing attending DeVry’s Lombard campus ever did for me was forcing me to read this…
I’ve waited a while to write this post about college protesters, but it is time. Universities were correct in using police to end encampments. They should withhold your diplomas and cancel your scholarships. Governments should cancel your passports. This is not a cranky old man speaking. I’m someone who has…
The title says it all Nikki Haley, Biden is refusing to pass the torch and you are the only viable candidate against Donald Trump. Yes, I’ve written about you before in this blog. I’ve even donated to your campaign along with the campaign of Bill Hurd and a couple others.…
I watched a little over ten minutes, maybe more, of the first 2024 Presidential debate. Biden was staring off into the distance like an old man who got lost a block from home. Trump was completely untethered from reality. It was plainly obvious Trump was suffering a full-on dementia storm.…
Yes, I’ve finally written an Emacs book. I spent the first two decades of my career on DEC platforms using EDT and have always been offended by PC editors forcing me to use mice or memorize draconian keystroke combinations. Off and on I used Emacs over the years. Once I…
Being a life-long Republican what drew me to the party was the fact it had ethics. Long time readers of this blog will remember when I wrote a post about Richard Nixon. While he was arguably the most hated president in the history of America up to that point, he…
