I am always misunderstood by non-technical types around the office. Its frustrating that they would think that a programmer isn’t working when he’s not in front of the computer typing code…. or even when in front of the computer and...

Everything the government runs is bankrupt: Medicare is broke; Medicaid is broke; the Post Office is broke; Amtrak is broke; Social Security is a bigger Ponzi scheme and bigger fraud than anything Madoff ever dreamed of and it is broke. The government...

Traditional male stories of heroism, from the Odyssey, to Beowulf, to say, comic book heroes like Daredevil or Superman, incorporate male ideas of the path to heroism. Control of fear, acceptance of death and loss, sticking to the right thing, of honor,...

I pointed this out to my oldest son when he was asking about socialism. We all remember the time growing up when we wanted something only to have our parents say, “When you make the money and pay the bills …” Now, when so many of the...

The recent anniversary of the moon landing has me thinking about space as of late. Obama and the Congress are always on my mind as well. The combination of those two trains of thought is realized in the fact that if 40 years ago we could put a man on...

I get so tired of the demand for “rights” (and the extravagant lengths people go to justify them) as an excuse for personal inaction and irresponsibility. I’ve often thought about what rights every human has, regardless of nationality,...

Entitlement. It’s a bullcrap notion. Almost as bullish as the idea of “the man” or the “whitey,” yet it is still an idea that permeates the minds of much of America’s lower and middle classes today. Truth be told, I’m getting really tired...

All these political scandals and endless pontification serve to hammer home a point: politicians are an odd bunch.  They are an odd form of sociopath.  Deluded, narcissistic, self-important wind bags who spend their lives seeking the ultimate freeloading...