Once I was asked at a job interview what my biggest strength was. I replied, “forward error correction.” The interviewer gave me a look that said, “What the hell are you talking about?” I explained that “forward error correction” is a method used during data transmission to help ensure the
I was watching an episode of Star Trek: Discovery last night and saw a cameo appearance by Mr. Spock. He has spoken many a wise thing over the years and I suspect that, given the chance, Mr. Spock would have quite a lot to say about the 2020 election. If
In 2017, Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota stated that the rural (Republican) areas in Minnesota are “mostly rocks and cows.” In August of last year, he said that the Minnesota National Guard was made up of “19-year-olds who are cooks.” Rural Minnesotans have a wry sense of humor. They took
The year 2020 will go down in history as the year that about half of Americas lost their minds. OK, maybe they didn’t entirely lose the ability to think rationally but they certainly lost the ability to think for themselves. Why do you suppose that is? I have an explanation.
There’s a line in an old Creedence song that goes like this, “I see the bad moon a-rising. I see trouble on the way.” I see it too. In three weeks, either President Trump will have won his second term, or Joe Biden will have successfully stolen the election. In
According to the theory of quantum mechanics, Joe Biden is both the winner and the loser of the presidential race. It’s the act of measuring the results that determines which he is. I know what you’re thinking, WTF does quantum mechanics have to do with electing a president? Trust
I grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota and have small-town values. One of the things I was often told is that winners never cheat, and cheaters never win. If someone cheated, I was supposed to shrug it off because, eventually, the cheater would get their comeuppance (yes, that’s
In August of 1992 we were living near Ft. Lauderdale. On the night of the 24th, hurricane Andrew struck and laid waste to south Florida. It scoured a large portion of the area right down to the blacktop and the city of Homestead was nearly completely gone. Supplies were limited
I don’t know much about Mitch McConnell. Honestly, I didn’t pay much attention to him until the impeachment hearings. So, he could have been a real idiot for decades and I wouldn’t have noticed. But, as far as the impeachment was concerned, it was pretty clear where he stood, and
A while back I talked about how no one person is capable for speaking the entire black community. Not Jesse Jackson, not Al Sharpton nobody. That’s because there is no such thing as a “black community”. The population of black people in the U.S. is simply too diverse for any