Change the US Postal Service delivery to every-other-day, three days to one set of customers, the other three days to the remaining customers. This will save millions of gallons of gasoline every day, and the commensurate greenhouse gasses. The level of service will not be impacted in any perceptible measure. …

I recently started wondering how many people are so big you could almost see them from outer space. It reminded me of a 1995 cartoon, Herb Block of the Washington Post, that I saved in my paper scrapbook collection. So it brings up the question, what other names are that…

Explaining how the American experience predisposes us to a whipsaw effect in our path to a liberal society. Perhaps you’re a young American who worries there won’t be enough guns in the future, or there will be too many abortions. If so, this essay is not for you. This is…

If, like me, you couldn’t figure out what the Amazon Blink video storage options actually were, let me clarify: You CAN do motion detection video recording without paying a monthly fee (by connecting your own USB device to the Blink Sync Module)… you just can’t play them back on your…

I know what you’re thinking, why is this ‘how-to’ article on Medium instead of Youtube? Because for many tasks, watching a video is 100 times slower than a simple text list of steps: ON A COLD FIREPLACE OR FIREPLACE INSERT, drape a very thin piece of plastic in front it…

[Author’s note: I think this might be the most insightful thing I ever wrote, so I’m separating it out from my longer article on Bitcoin. It’s an explanation of how money is only about belief, not intrinsic value.] There once was a village called Nioctib (sounds Inuit or pharmaceutical but…

Political correctness. The ‘Mommy State,’ the perception that some people are wrongly given assistance. Government overreach, trivially represented by things like protecting obscure endangered species, but the only thing that matters is global warming. Hatred of the other. ‘Animus’ is the word for this most deep-seated of animal instincts. Extra…

A president doesn’t take any actions; she or he only speaks. And those words either inspire others to act, or directly motivate the actions of others (such as proposing new laws), or in some cases get transcribed to executive orders (the closest a president gets to taking action). The actual…

“The peaceful transfer of power,” that magical phrase that encapsulates what seems to have been America’s first-ever contribution to the fitful march of democracy in the story of civilization… is at the core of a question confronting liberals in Little Donald’s America: why isn’t the Justice Department going after the…