Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 52

Tablo TV: Pause and rewind live television

Now that I have an Apple TV, I almost never turn on broadcast television. After getting used to the better interface and the better control, getting stuck on someone else’s schedule was too annoying. The Tablo TV makes live television interesting again by running it through an Apple TV app.

The institutional forgetfulness of the press

We no longer have to rely on the press as our institutional memory. The Internet has made it harder for the left to pretend the past doesn’t exist, or to say one thing here and another there.

Was Weinstein treated better than Spacey because his accusers were women?

Both Weinstein and Spacey got a pass for a long time. We know more about Weinstein because he was caught earlier, and that’s it. Maybe it’s past time to drain the swamps of Hollywood, the entertainment industry in general, and similar cultures of deception such as in Washington DC.

National Sandwich Day: Whole Wheat Sesame Bread

Too be honest, I’m not sure the whole wheat bread from The Enchanted Broccoli Forest is even doable by hand. But I have managed to modify it so that it works very well in a bread machine.

How do we keep this from happening again?

Whenever there's a tragedy, there is a small cadre of people who frantically push solutions that never worked in the past and wouldn't have stopped the current tragedy. They’re in a hurry to act before the facts come out that would let us craft a real response. Real prevention means solving real problems. That means waiting for the facts.

Does Hurricane Harvey support socialism in Texas?

Should Texas forego federal assistance because Texans dislike socialism?

The Ultimate Government Accountability Reform

You really want to make government accountable? Define a simple process by which voters can choose to have their state exit the United States of America.

A direct line to the Charlottesville riots… from 1938

The press has been downplaying violent rioting for almost a year. Cities have been letting violent rioters get away with, literally, inciting murder. At best they are ignored by the press and at worst praised by the press and by politicians on the left. Why be surprised that we have more violent riots?

Community health acts to improve Obamacare

Democrats now want to talk about how to improve Obamacare. Here’s how to do it.

Democrat Chris Murphy: Obamacare is “the end of health care”

From the mouths of hypocrites, comes wisdom. It’s almost biblical.