Back in the “good old days”, a lot of states had “literacy tests” for voters. If you didn’t pass them, you couldn’t vote. Of course, it was a scam: the real reason for the testing was to eliminate black voters, and the fight to remove the laws was part of the civil rights movement to [...]

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A recent study of more than 150 organizations conducted by Aberdeen Group(1) found that the average total cost to remediate a single application security incident is approximately $300,000. As security incidents can happen at any point in the application life cycle, modernization initiatives can prove especially costly if they are not proactively secured from development [...]

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Beware Addictive Pain Killers — Physical Therapy Better I have reached that age where I have to cope with pain. A combination of arthritis and a rib injured in a fall had me using Endocet (below) until my son discovered that this drug is both dangerous and addictive. My first night off it was hell. [...]

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The name Tommy Roe is one that everyone born prior to 1960 remembers. During the 1960′s Tommy Roe had a string of hits both in the US and elsewhere in the world. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, the songs certainly will. Here is a refresher for you from 1969: Dizzy There are many [...]

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Twitter’s numbers are astounding. In the physical world, when communities become larger and more densely populated, crime rises. The same applies to online communities. CNET broke down Twitter’s recent blog post, which celebrates their significant numbers: “It took three years, two months, and one day for Twitter to hit 1 billion tweets; now, a billion [...]

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My thoughtful son has noted that few of use logic or math to approach our decision-making.  Rather emotions, slogans (honest or lies often repeated), anxieties, etc. determine our thinking and voting patterns. It is hard to believe that our ‘democracy’ is making no authentic mention of American suffering — loss of homes, jobs, etc.  Give [...]

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Spring For Susannah Catherine Richmond Paperback: 356 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (June 14, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1595549242 ISBN-13: 978-1595549242 Following the death of her father in Michigan, Susannah Underhill is left rootless, and she agrees to go west to the Dakota Territory to marry Jesse Mason, brother of Susannah’s minister. At the urging of [...]

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If you want to go to Medical schools in the US, you have to take a test called an MCAT. It is to try to figure out if you are smart enough to be a doc or something like that. I’m not sure, since I predate that test. At least in the past doctors were [...]

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Not only was John Steven Burgess, 41 years old, convicted of manslaughter, he was also a registered sex offended to boot. Burgess was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and concealing the body of 19 year old Donna Jou. Donna was a straight “A” student from San Diego State University. According to reports, Donna had placed an [...]

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