Tag Archives: NOT_XFRD

Never mind that it’s President Trump.  If you think that this is different from banning, say, Obama or Clinton, then you’re part of the problem.  Even the genocidal leaders of awful countries are not banned.
This is all about a partisan political project, and not at all about “standards”.

I write now to express my support for the New York Times (a rare enough instance for me) in their publication of a controversial political cartoon, which is widely considered a work of anti-semitism. I won’t re-hash all the to and from over this — there’s plenty to be had elsewhere, as in this link to CNN coverage of the item.  According to CNN:

Portuguese artist António Moreira Antunes has been drawing political cartoons for 45 years. He recently decided to take on the relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and recently re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The result was an image of a Netanyahu as a dog on a leash, Star of David around his neck, held by a blind Trump wearing sunglasses and … Continue reading →

Soo… how’s the old earning power?

I perused a couple of websites to validate the average annual salaries by age, then applied a deflator to adjust the results by age.  This is because a person like me who should nominally earn $50K in 2018 would never ever had made $22K 35 years ago, like the chart implies.

So in the table below, the far left column indicates a person’s age in 2018.  The second column indicates that person’s earnings in 2018.  But to make the chart a bit more relevant, I crudely applied a deflator so that you can see how this ought to track in your own life.  Find your own age from the age groups across the top, in columns 3-9, and then the salaries below … Continue reading →

Just a quick post here — examples abound.

Never has it been more true than now that those who can do so, and those who cannot teach instead.  And one of the problems we face in Western Culture these days is an undeserved elevation of the teaching types to positions of power.  Professorial sorts should almost always be denied positions of power, and that includes power over educational institutions.

The amount of information available on YouTube, WikiPedia, and all around this great big web (and the internet in general for non-web assets) puts academia to shame.  The fact that you have to wade through a lot of nonsense to get to the good sense makes it more an asset than the University.  In University, students are not taught … Continue reading →

This is the story of how I changed from MacOS X and Windows XP and Windows 98SE, all in use simultaneously, to a completely Ubuntu Linux home office. I’ll add details and angles as time goes by, and in case any questions should roll in (hint, hint!), so things may change.

First, Ubuntu is the name of a distribution of Linux. Linux is a free operating system, and Ubuntu is a fantastically easy-to-use version of that. Please go to the Ubuntu website and check it out. Over there, you will find a touchy-feely Kumbaya corporate philosophy and the most polished, easiest-to-use, customer-centered, stable, flexible, usable, and free operating system.

Yes, FREE.

I am not making any money from this, but I have seen the light, and I … Continue reading →

Congressional hearings over issues such as Solyndra should include questions about meetings at places like those mentioned below.  Jeck, just for GP.  If it becomes a standard question to ask Obama cronies if they met with admin officials at any coffee shop, cafe, townhouse or other venue during specified periods of time, the results could be instructive, especially in the aggregate.

…some of the most important presidential visitors don’t even walk into the White House. The administration meets K Street lobbyists at Caribou Coffee, and holds secret meetings in Jackson Place townhouses where there are no visitor logs.

The visitor logs that have been released are problematic, because they are simply lists of names, with no way to verify whether a specific name belongs to a particular person.

… Continue reading →