Everyday Disasters

Category: Just A Thought

  • Shock & Awe Ebola

    Every so often the universe takes a terrible tragedy and adds an element of slapstick. The latest Ebola outbreak was expected to infect up to 1.4 million people without the aggressive interventions already started. That someone infected made it into the US couldn’t have come as a shock to anyone. That the person is in…

  • School Busing As a Private Enterprise

    I recently switched my child to the local middle school at the sleepy town I live in and immediately developed an appreciation for why the town had spent so much for traffic studies. At the start and end of the school day the town center is paralyzed with traffic. Almost everyone in town has to…

  • Afghanistan is a Slightly Post-medieval Tribal Culture?

    Wasn’t fostering a way to forge relationships in the middle ages? Instead of spiraling troops upward in Afghanistan, wouldn’t it make more sense to invite a child (12 years old?) from each family to spend a year in the US with a host family? Ideally you’d have a representative from every family here to be…

  • Don’t Let Your Computer Consort With Spammers

    I don’t use a spam filtering service because the people I want to communicate with use Hi in the subject line, use multiple exclamations and capitals and even sometimes commit a double entendre to writing – all of which get their emails tagged as spam. (Don’t even get me started on how I was suppose to…

  • Military Budget Solution

    There is a very real problem with any military budget reform that each branch gets a constant share of the total military budget pie.  This agreement was forged for very real benefits (We really would prefer that our military spend their time thinking about fighting someone else, not each other).  We are in a war that is…

  • Are Internet Professional Reviews Useful or Just Vehicles For Slander?

    I looked up my dentist’s phone number on the Internet a while back and saw with great surprise that there was a review that claimed she rushed through her patients, held them down and ran an office with numerous children crying in it.  (It was so bad that I was looking for the line where the…

  • Computers & The Internet

     Best answer will get a prize. (I have to figure out a good one. – suggestions taken.) Which is more important? Why?  Never use another’s account and never share your password. NEVER have food or drink around computers. Never give out personal information  about you or anyone you know like: name, phone number, address or…

  • Why Isn’t Spying On Americans to Catch Terrorists Good?

    It sounds so reasonable.  Just let the government tap our phones or analyze what we read and they’ll stop the next terrorist attack. It seems like a very small price to pay to stop another 911 and it would be. No one objects to stopping the next 911.  The problem occurs when those with the…

  • What do they mean No Child Left Behind is bad?

    We’re failing the global education race. Is it unreasonable to ask that not only should all children be educated to a minimal level but that all children be pushed to their maximum level?

  • My friend started a blog. What does she WANT?

    My friends were so supportive when I started a blog (probably happy that I’d stop telling them about the crazy things I read and think about).  They’d sometimes even log on and read my pearls. (Usually in front of me just to show that they had looked at it.) Sometimes they’d even call me up to…