Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 59
August 16, 2016
San Diego: 5th Avenue Books and Bluestocking Books
Facing each other across Fifth Avenue in Hillcrest, these two great bookstores complement each other well.
August 10, 2016
Natural monopolies: a 20-minute call for $8.83
“A 20-minute call anywhere in the country will cost me only $3.33? What’s the catch?” The catch is that those are still outrageous monopolistic prices.
August 3, 2016
Democratic National Committee membership scam
The Democrats are phishing for people who don’t remember they’re not members.
August 2, 2016
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
Not only does slavery make life worse for slaves, it doesn’t make life better for slave-owners. And the ultimate freedom is freedom to learn.
July 27, 2016
Are insecurity questions designed to help hackers?
Insecurity questions are being modified to make them easier to hack and harder to remember. It’s as if they’re designed to help hackers and frustrate forgetful account owners.
July 26, 2016
St. Louis: Patten Books
Patten Books is an unassuming storefront on Manchester; you might pass it while going to the mall or heading home from the office. Don’t.
July 20, 2016
Democrats endorse public school elections, teacher recalls?
Should legislators and teachers be evaluated for job performance in the same way? A group called Winning Democrats suggests that public school teachers should be elected positions rather than tenured, and that teachers should be subject to recall by the communities they serve.
July 13, 2016
Divisive double standards
It’s a hypocritical form of divisiveness, calling for togetherness and reason whenever your side commits a crime, and engaging in unreasoning partisanship when you can find some way to pin it on others.
July 12, 2016
Broken but Unbowed
Texas Governor Greg Abbott talks about how he survived the accident that paralyzed him, and how the United States can survive the system that paralyzes it.
July 6, 2016
Climate priests cry wolf one more time?
In science, if your theory’s predictions don’t happen, you need a new theory. In religion, if your beliefs predict something that doesn’t happen, you just keep moving that prediction further into the future.
