Back in the wake of Obergfell v Hodges, I talked with some friends about a news story of a court person refusing to sign off on gay marriages after the Supreme Court allowed them. My friends were confused. They wanted to know: How can they refuse the authority of the Supreme Court?!?! I had a…
Something I’ve noticed over the years is more “thank you”s in late November through mid-December. It might have something to do with Thanksgiving. Starting about Monday before and running at least a couple weeks after, I notice supervisors, mentors, and clients express more pointed expressions of thanks. That’s not to say I don’t see them…
NOTE: I put this into the schedule, so don’t read too much into the post’s date in determining who inspired me to write it. Facebook has that “happy birthday” feature which I think is pretty neat because it encourages connection. Where it gets weird for me is people who are dead. I don’t feel comfortable…
The bullshit of QAnon was bad. People were threatened or killed over the conspiracies it circulated, but what’s worse is that Stephen Miller, Fox News, Newsmax, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, and others all realized they could craft Q-like conspiracies to get loyal viewers and sell so much stuff. (Ads and merch).…
This risk of a reality TV star being President is you get what they know: drama every day about obviously bad decisions that could have been avoided with a modicum of thought before executing them. Personally, I feel like the government works well when it is doing what it needs to do without causing drama.…
I see quite a bit of worry about how the mainstream media doesn’t cover Trump and Biden the same way. Biden makes mistakes in the way he speaks and its breathlessly covered for weeks. For months Trump made the same mistakes and barely a story. Why? The news covered Trump’s mistakes and stumbles in 2016…
Several United States political parties routinely appear on the presidential ballots every four years. But, I think they go about it all wrong. Let’s say the Libertarian party wins. Chase Oliver becomes president. He’s president with a Congress that’s Democratic or Republican in one or both chambers. He’s going to have a hard time with…
I don’t get it. A few people shared posts claiming the same photo of a child from different cities was missing. It got me looking into the phenomenon. Law enforcement agencies are calling it a bait-and-switch scam. After the post gets widely shared, the creator will change it to the real purpose: malicious website, deceptive…
Someone copying the name of another person on social media is annoying, but I don’t think of it as hacking. Anyone can make an account. Social media companies made verification methods precisely because clones are easy to make and when do so about someone famous, it could lead to a devaluation of a brand. For…