As Cruel as Society Demands
I am not quite sure how this august panel of nine judges decides what constitutes a cruel and unusual punishment, unless it is by simply following the precedent...
Author: Will Cox
Remember, They Are Your Representatives
Dear Congressman Hall: Thank you for your thoughtful and considered response to the concerns expressed in my mail of February 15th this year. Unfortunately, I r...
Summer School
There’s been some concern among the professional educators about skills lost over the Summer since I was a small child, and that concern has not abated. W...
Picking off the small, specific segments of the activist wing of the party
While Barack Obama currently has an edge over John McCain in the general election, he should take steps to remove the interest of those small, specific segments...
Setting the Stage
I’m currently reading April 1865, an excellent book covering the events of the last month of the Civil War, which reminds us that how wars end is often of...
What is the Unifying Core of the Party?
Justin Logan at Cato
Who Put the Fire in the Firefox?
Speed tests are showing a 2-4x improvement over Firefox 2 and 9x over Internet Explorer 7. Nine times faster than Internet Exploder 7! No more waiting on the In...
Default Settings Set Expectations
>Browse with caret allows users to select arbitrary content with the keyboard and move through content as if inside a read-only editor. This allows copying a...
Google Maps Feature Request
Google Maps has topographic maps, and lets you enter multiple destinations for directions, avoid highways, and alter the route. So now I need the ability to sav...
Adobe, You Owe Me Money
I was wondering why my laptop was not idle when I wasn’t using it, because when I picked it up I burned my hand. Using the handy-dandy Task Manager, I saw...
All Kinds of Jargon
After reading The Austrian Economists site for a while now, I notice it shares some features with some papers Niall Ferguson posted on his website. Namely, name...
Beautiful Day
It’s a beautiful day out today. The wind chases fluffy white clouds across the sky. Leaves whisper in the breeze, counterpoint to the bullfrog’s bas...
Where is the Honor in Honor Killings?
Honor is a social norm, so it varies from culture to culture. Because I’m not immersed in the cultures where one must kill one’s own to defend one&#...
Requiescat in pacem, Grandmother
Mary Leta Bell Cox, 91, a resident of Valley Bend, died at home on Tuesday, May 27, 2008. She was born Jan. 31, 1917, at Elkwater, to the late Charles Howard an...
Time to Read
Ernie says, I’m reading more these days now that I have my Kindle. How does having a Kindle give you more time to read? I’m constantly reading, but ...
Roam Where You Want To
We walked to the Memorial Day parade this morning. That was fun, though the posted speed limit on Beekman-Poughquag Road should be lowered by about 10 to 15 mph...
Alternate Campaign Realities
What if the Republican delegates were allocated proportionally, like the Democratic delegates are? Or vice versa?