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COP21: Carefully Shaded Disappointment
Well, the Paris Agreement that grew out of the COP21 conference in France over the last couple of weeks, has been signed by the 196 participating nations. I’ve read the entire agreement and a great...
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FAA Earns Kudos With New Drone Rules
I’m not always impressed with either the alacrity with which the Federal Government responds to changing circumstances or the wisdom of their responses when they get around to them. Today, I’m...
View ArticleGotta Love Bernie’s Positive Thinking!
Bernie Sanders is drafting is inauguration speech. Not his acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination, mind you, His inauguration speech. I love that. One of my core beliefs is that we co-create...
View ArticleCoverup or Lie? Did Obama’s Top General Commit Treason or is This Story Just...
According to a report published in the London Review of Books and more widely disseminated online by AlterNet, General Martin Dempsey and a handful of U.S. intelligence chiefs went behind their...
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Farewell, My Canine Friend
My longtime friend, companion and pet dog Albert Einstein Shafer died today. For 15 years, he filled my life and its odd moments with joy, laughter, reminders of what unconditional love looks like and...
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My First Taste of Cardboard: Delicious!
For Christmas my youngest and her hubby bought me a ViewMaster VR Viewer Starter Kit. It wasn’t a huge shock; I’d had it on my Christmas list for some time. But I wasn’t really expecting such an...
View ArticleFirst Cardboard Apps: Mixed Bag But Mostly Cool
As I posted yesterday, I got a ViewMaster VR Viewer Starter Kit for Christmas and soon found myself whiling away considerable time downloading and exploring a number of 3D/VR experiences from various...
View ArticleDave Winer’s Right, Elon Musk Wrong About Mars
I’ve always respected Dave Winer, even — maybe particularly — when we’ve disagreed. He’s a Big Picture guy who generally exhibits clear thinking and crisp writing on a broad range of subjects. I’ve...
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Since When Did the U.S. Take Ownership of Space?
In a largely overlooked bit of news with potentially massive implications, President Barack Obama signed a law in late November authorizing companies to claim legal ownership of any resources or...
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Where Doe Medium Fit?
I’ve spent some time in the last few days poking around on Medium. I haven’t been paying a lot of attention recently to online blogging and publishing technologies so my own writing life has settled...
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Let’s Keep Tomsula, Fire Baalke
As you know, I’m not one of Jim Tomsula’s biggest fans. All season long as I’ve commented on the 49ers and his role in their utter collapse, I’ve put “head coach” in quotation marks to indicate my...
View ArticleAnother VR Sample Site With Source
I ran across another interesting VR site today that seemed worth sharing. The content of these 14 VRs is pretty weak for the most part, but a few of them are quite nice. The main thing I found...
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How Can 80% of GOP Voters and 78% of Farmers Not Believe Climate Change is...
I know this attitude sounds elitist. I don’t intend it that way but it will be perceived that way by many who disagree with it. So be it. How can 80% of Republicans (as found in a recent Pew Research...
View ArticleHolmgren to Helm Niners?
Mike Holmgren, easily one of the best coaches in NFL history, is reportedly actively interested in the Niners’ head shed. He’d be a fine choice, to be sure. But (you knew there had to be one, right?)...
View ArticleNiners Can Tomsula
So the Ego in the Front Office wins again. The Niners announced before the last fan had straggled out of the stadium today that Jim Tomsula, the sacrificial “head coach” (yeah, the quotation marks are...
View ArticleInteresting List of Top 4 Candidates for Niners’ Head Coaching Job
Speculation is rampant, of course. It always is in situations like this where an NFL team fires its head coach right after the season ends, giving prognosticators lots and lots of time to offer...
View ArticleI’m Back! Almost
Faithful readers of this little corer of the blogosphere may perhaps have noted my absence for the last week or so. I was taken by ambulance to the emergency room last Tuesday afternoon for what turned...
View ArticleWhat Do NFL Schedulers Have Against the Niners?
For the second season in a row, the San Francisco 49ers have one of the toughest list of opponents in the upcoming campaign. This flies in the face of the NFL’s oft-stated goal of achieving parity...
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Hey, Progressives! Watch the Language!
Today I return to one of my recurring themes. I’ve been saying this for years. In political confrontations with conservatives, we progressives (aka liberals) consistently concede the other side too...
View ArticleNiners Well Positioned for Strong Off-Season But is Management Up to the Task?
The San Francisco 49ers are in a prime position to enjoy a significant upgrade to their depleted roster during this off-season. Among all 32 teams, the Niners are in the fourth best position in terms...
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