Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 67
December 9, 2015
The one true gun law loophole
The only true gun law loophole is that criminals are willing to break the law. Law-abiding victims are not. Gun laws disarm victims but do not disarm murderers.
December 8, 2015
Twice Sold Tales of Seattle
If you���re in Denver and you���re a science fiction/fantasy fan, you really owe it to yourself to stop into Twice Sold Tales.
The bookstores less traveled
These aren���t the bookstores people travel across the country to visit. But if you���re already traveling across the country, you���ll want to take advantage of the opportunity to visit them.
December 2, 2015
Mom didn���t leave the left, it left her
Is my mom becoming more conservative, or is the left becoming more out of touch, not just with science but with mainstream religion?
December 1, 2015
Draw a circle on an iPad map from three points in Pythonista
Use Pythonista on the iPad to import a map screenshot, tap three points, and draw a circle from those three points. This simple shell can be used for other on-the-fly programming, too.
November 25, 2015
Why Americans distrust Obama���s refugee policy
The reason states are taking immigration law into their own hands is that the federal government isn���t doing its job. The reason this is politically popular is that Americans can see how dangerous the federal governments policy of ignoring illegal immigration criminals is.
November 24, 2015
The First Casualty
This book is a great collection of war reporting anecdotes from the Crimean War up to Vietnam. It also attempts to be an analysis, and pretty much fails to not only come to any conclusion, but to decide what its goals ought to be.
November 18, 2015
Who wants the United States to lead?
After Paris, can we still wonder whether it���s a better idea for the United States to leave world peace to bickering tyrants?
November 17, 2015
Echo House
Ward Just���s story of three generations of Washington power brokers unknown by pretty much everyone outside of DC.
November 11, 2015
Religious upbringing study uses odd definition of altruism
The religious upbringing altruism study is a failure because the researchers failed to define their moral terms. You can���t study altruism and judgmentalism unless you come up with a definition of the terms. Their definition appears to have been ���willing to give money to social science researchers���.
