I know we don’t agree on much these days, but we should be able to agree on this: Only informed people can make informed decisions. If you’re working with false or misleading information, you can’t possibly have everything you need to make a good decision. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC),
According to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), as of last Friday, there have been 609 “adverse events” after being injected with a COVID-19 vaccine that have resulted in death. Now, I can’t tell by looking at the data if the deceased were already deathly sick from something
Back in 2009 the game “Farmville” was released on Facebook and quickly became one of the biggest games of the time. To the average player, it may have looked like the goal of Farmville was to keep your crops alive and thrive as a farmer. But that wasn’t the real
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. You can look at a single image and imagine what must have happened to reach that particular point in time. There is no way for anyone to know what transpired to make that image possible. So, Big Media takes a single
From time to time I hear people talking about “stolen valor”. That is, when someone pretends to be in the military when they really weren’t. Identity theft is nasty in any circumstance, but it is truly despicable to claim you served and sacrificed for your country when, in actuality, you
There are three little words that everyone wants to hear. Oh, no. Not those three words. I see your confusion. Since it’s so close to Valentine’s day, I bet you thought I was talking about the words “I love you”. Sorry. That’s not what this is about. This is about
I have a personal policy of not “unfriending” people for what they say. While I might not agree with someone, they have a right to their opinion, and I have a right to mine. I’m also not going to cancel my Facebook and Twitter accounts. Mostly I’m not cancelling them
When we lived in Florida, we lived in a gated community called “Embassy Lakes”. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of a gated community, I’ll explain it to you. There’s a bunch of houses in a nice neighborhood. The nice neighborhood also has a bunch of nice amenities
One of the key principles in the American criminal justice system is that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty. That is, unless someone can prove otherwise, we must assume that the defendant isn’t guilty of the crime they’re accused of committing. That’s all well and good. But what if
A couple of days ago, I posted a quote of mine. Maybe someone said it before I did but I don’t remember hearing it. It looked like this: I started thinking some more about it and decided that I should give it some additional attention. We’ve all heard (and some