This week, the media claimed that Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) said that fact-checking is a form of censorship. Here’s what he said: “When I use the word ‘censor’ here, I’m meaning blocked content, fact check, or labeled content, or demonetized websites of conservative, Republican, or pro-life individuals or groups or
If you’re still someone who doesn’t believe that the media is in collusion with the Biden campaign, you need to only look at the news this morning to be convinced otherwise. Oh wait, that’s not true at all. Because the mainstream media isn’t covering what is potentially the biggest political
In the late 90’s I was working for a video game developer in Austin. One day, Frank, a member of my team, walked into my office and grabbed a whiteboard marker. “I’ve got you figured out”, said Frank. “Oh really?”, I replied “Yup. Let’s imagine there are two asteroids traveling
I can’t vote by mail. I received one of those signature cards in the mail months ago, but I didn’t send it in. My signature is like a bunch of snowflakes. I can write/scribble my name five times and they’ll all look completely different. Not wanting to take the chance
There’s a car in a neighborhood not too far from here. Someone has written on the back window “Honk “4 Fuck Trump”. The car has been marked like that for months and the owner routinely drives it around. Here’s what it looks like: Imagine that you’re a parent with a
As there are two sides to every coin, there are two sides to every issue. Whatever the issue, it’s likely that someone will agree with it and someone will disagree. My wife and I were watching the news shortly after Biden announced Kamala Harris would be his running mate. There
I walk my dog every morning. I guess it would be more accurate to say that my dog walks me. Just about every morning, we pass a woman walking her small dog. That dog goes crazy when we walk by and creates this shrill, fingernails-on-the-chalkboard sound that makes my skin
We are being asked to believe increasingly crazy things. And, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to determine what’s true and what isn’t. It used to be that there were limited tools available for communication. You could say something, write something or draw a picture of something. Hearing something is less powerful
There’s an old saying that “ignorance is bliss”. What it typically means is that the less you know, the happier you are. But today, it takes on an entirely different meaning. As the 2020 elections rapidly approach, the less you know, the happier the Biden campaign is. Joe Biden’s campaign
Flummoxed. Now there’s a word I don’t get to use very often. Stunned, bewildered and dumbfounded are a few more that I don’t often use. But I’m going to use them now. I was in a “conversation” on Facebook the other day. One of the participants said, “We need a