“It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life . . .” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“. . . popularity may be united with hostility to the rights of the people, and the secret slave of tyranny may be the professed lover of freedom.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
We all have on occasion cleaned the smudges and finger prints from our monitors and it helps a lot. But eventually the inside gets dirty, too, and most people don’t know how to properly clean the inside of the screen. So being the tech that I am when I found an online tool to properly [...]
Bye-bye Global Warming. Hello Global Cooling. Haven’t we been here before? Say… one solar cycle ago?
“The goal of the ‘liberals’ —as it emerges from the record of the past decades—was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to [...]
I don’t spend much time listening to music whether corporate or independents but every now and then I’ll find something I like and River County happens to be one of them. I especially like the song We’re All Here (Because we ain’t all there) but enjoyed the all 3 of the selections on their website. [...]
It appears to be a bit older, probably done sometime around the last elections but Hillary Can’t Wait ’til 2008 is not only funny but successfully captures a dozen or more humorous points from the political world. I especially like Nancy Regan at the end…
The video of Navy missile hitting the satellite is a must see. I don’t really care if it was a weapons test, an effort to protect secrets on the bird or to keep 2500 pounds of scrap from wiping out a village in Africa. The SM3 did its job so all 3 may well have [...]
If you’re a Linux user who like Photoshop you’re pretty much stuck having to pay the Microsoft Tax just to run it. Over the last several years I’ve largely converted to using GIMP for most tasks and only occasionally switching to a Windows VM for Photoshop. Adobe has said for many years they’ll not support [...]
Have you heard any of the few nuggets of policy plans from Obama and thought they sounded vaguely if not outright Marxist? Now we know why… his mentor was Frank Marshall Davis and abashedly of the Communist Party USA…
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The masthead graphic "Road to Oakalla" was taken during a motorcycle ride to the Oakalla covered bridge on 23 May, 2007 with a Canon A85 digital camera (F5.6, 1/125 sec exposure). Additional images from the visit are in the Oakalla bridge gallery.
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