A Visit to Arkansas
Why Arkansas? Sometimes it seemed like it was just to be able to tell people we were going on vacation in Arkansas.
Read More
Can You Draw the United States?
I’m going to think of the map the way a physicist might. I’m going to start out with the simplest approximation I can find that captures the main features.
Read More
Belated Announcement
I am happy to announce our purchase of a new all-electric car, the Nissan Leaf.
Read More
United States Annual Budget, Part II
Budgets are stereotyped as dry and uninformative, but they represent a portrait of everything the government is doing. At a time when the debt series show-down has people attacking or defending the budget, it is important to know what the budget actually is.
Read More
United States Annual Budget, Part I
The showdown over the debt ceiling has me going back to basics of the government. Part I will look at overall spending by the federal government in recent decades and years, and Part II will look at what that spending is for.
Read More
Veteran Protesting Police Brutality Killed by Soldier – and Texas Governor Approves
“We went through the same training … Shooting after creating an event where you have to shoot, is not a good shoot.”
Read More
Campus Attacks on Free Speech
Here I’m referring specifically to the freedom for someone affiliated with the university to invite a speaker to give a talk on campus. This freedom can be curtailed by an administrator blocking a group from inviting someone due to their political views, or by people exercising the “heckler’s veto” and shouting over the speaker so s/he can’t be heard,
Read More
Russia Will Not Be Appeased
A declaration of neutrality for Ukraine will do no more to end this war than the 2010 law enshrining Ukrainian neutrality did to prevent it.
Read More
America Made Me Do It
Are we to believe that the Russians would have retreated back to the 23 February lines if not for something Boris Johnson whispered in Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s ear?
Read More
Terrain Maps Lack Depth
It isn’t hard to make a good topographic map, which is why its strange that so many are really bad.
Read More