How Facebook is Losing Its True Value
Facebook has found itself in some serious trouble. The social media giant has gotten itself into a real issue with a company called Cambridge Analytica, which apparently got pretty easy access to the personal...
Category: Things I hate
Makings of a Political Sh-tStorm
It’s been another tough week for President Trump, and he has a lot of those. In fact, probably 50 out of the last 52 has been tough, with 2 good ones when he was...
2017 We Hardly Knew Ya
Where has time gone? It seems likely only yesterday that I was writing about the first season of the Grand Tour (Season Two is here, sort of like the Dacia Sandero), and Bernie getting...
NASCAR Hits The Wall With a Dull Thud
NASCAR was it. Stock car racing in America hit it’s peak sometime in the 90s, with stars, money, big new tracks, and even it’s own Tom Cruise movie in Days Of Thunder. It was...
Fire Colbert and The Strangeness of the Trump Era
This will be a bit of a short story, but I have to say something because I find it pretty offensive. On Stephen Colbert’s late night show monologue on May 2nd, the comedian and...
Burning Note 7s Leave Samsung Smoldering
As loyal readers will know, I use to be a big fan of Samsung. In fact, we are effectively a Samsung Family, with my wife, myself, and my son all using Samsung phones, tablets,...
Samsung Update: Love affair undone by an Edge S7
It’s sort of funny how things work out. I recently posted up that we are a Samsung Family. From Tablets to TVs, phones, and so on, our house is a virtual history of Samsung...
Will Political Correctness Finally Crash Land and Die?
I am old enough to remember a time when there was no such thing as political correctness, where you could call a fat person fat, a black person black, and people who now mentally...
Anonymous Internet and The Rule of The Minority
I often read the site Techdirt, in part because I find it endlessly fascinating how a small group of people can twist and convoluted everything in the universe to fit their small, limited agenda....
Diversity Is The Ultimate Tech Red Herring
One of the more noble goals of our society is to give everyone an equal chance. The western world’s history has been one of inequality, from slavery and Apartheid to women not being able...
The Shame in Shaming The Shamers
I think shaming is perhaps the 2015 buzzword / trend / excuse that most annoys me. Well, not actually the shaming, but rather people who insist on taking every negative opinion and trying to...
Terrorism, Racism, and The Insane Reactions To Tragedy
Without a doubt, the killing of 9 people in a church is a tragedy. That it was 9 black people killed by a racist white supremacists gives it all the ugly overtones that haunt...
Free Speech Advocates Freak Out When Judge Rules Against Them
I visit a lot of different websites and I read and consider many different points of view. That means that I can read the wacky conservative rattle trap of Rush Limbaugh on one side,...
Will F1 Die Off Without a Whimper?
As you can tell, I am a pretty big F1 fan. I have been most of my life. I have seen the series evolve and change over the years, and seen it all go...
