I am having such a hard time understanding how one group of seemingly similar people can look at an issue so differently. I am not talking about nuanced issues like immigration, or healthcare for all. I'm taking about an issue that to me, seems simple. The issue is the law and whether or not it was broken. I recall being a teenager and trying to get my driver's license and one of the main takeaways from that experience was "ignorance of the law is not an excuse". When...

Pizza is one of my loves. Perhaps by only true love. I love pizza. I love pizza so much that I've gone on pilgrimage to the birth of pizza in Naples, Italy. For the past year I have been practicing making my own pizza dough. Today I think I found the best combination of preparation-time and taste yet. The 6 ingredients are simple: 600 grams of unbleached bread flour 4 grams of active dry yeast (this is key)10 grams of sugar12 grams of salt380 milliliters of water20 milliliters...

Earlier this month, I posted my opinion on how the Media is the issue and a catalyst to the current political climate in which we are now. It is the media that has provided our politicians with a platform to spread their propaganda; either by competing against each other and providing more unnecessary coverage, or by competing against social platforms, and in turn providing unnecessary additional coverage. I realize this has become common nowadays, but Twitter was never created as a way to spread serious ideas. Serious ideas,...

The latest version of MacOS, Catalina, and iPadOS, 13.x, now allow you to natively extend the display of your computer unto your iPad for free. In the past, I had used paid software to do this. And while the software worked pretty well, native solutions generally work more smoothly. If you are like me, you can never have enough display real estate. I have a 13in MBP and have it maxed out on screen resolution and I still could use more real estate. I have been using my...

The other day, while on social media, I got to see this video. It is a video titled "Is Global Warming the Biggest Fraud in History?". Many memes have been created off this, the one that got my attention was something about "Mexican businessman shuts down liberal...". I got to watch it and noticed two things, 1) the power of having the loudest blow horn, and 2) the power we (everyone) give to the larger consensus. The former, I think has been made clear by other people and...

Few can call me a fan of our current President. And just as few can call him a good President. Earlier in the week we wrote about impeachment and how the pressure is mounting up. Today I wanted to write about how Trump is continuing to play the media as he squirms his way through questions and his explanations. The current strategy is to face the question of asking for help from a foreign government head on. Much like he did during the 2016 campaign, when he asked...

I have been reading Malcolm Gladwell's most recent book, Talking to Strangers. The book, like other books from Gladwell, give us an insight into realizing what we thought we fully understood, we actually may not had. In Talking to Strangers, Gladwell goes over several recent news reports and discusses how they became so. One particular such discussion is around the now-confirmed and sentenced sexual abuse perpetrated by US Gymnastics' Larry Nassar. Nassar was the organization's doctor and for a long time there had been allegations of misconduct. The...

Hillary Clinton, and her daughter, Chelsea, are out promoting a new book they co-wrote, The Book of Gutsy Women. Last night they were on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Colbert is one of my favorite late-night hosts. He's very witty and generally well informed. https://youtu.be/UzhArb7gVhU While the Madam Secretary was there promoting the book, Colbert jumped at the opportunity to inquire about the inquiry of impeachment. She gave her thoughts and you can image what they were, however, what surprised me the most were not what she...

The drums of impeachment are getting louder and louder. Equally, are Trump's best strategies for misinformation and doubt. Trump has never shied away from less-than-truthful comments and even all-out lies. To him, all is fair. If you pay close attention, he began by relying on the oldest of his tricks; there was nothing wrong. He took it one step further by annotating it with "perfect". However, the basis of his strategy is the same one, there is nothing to see here folks. The other strategy is to demonize...

A placebo is a substance or procedure which should have no therapeutic effect. A harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient than for any physiological effect."his Aunt Beatrice had been kept alive on sympathy and placebos for thirty years" a substance that has no therapeutic effect, used as a control in testing new drugs. a measure designed merely to calm or please someone. This is what we have been taught since childhood. That placebos are all in the mind. However, in...