A lovely and talented reader in the D/FW metroplex asked me this brilliant question: “Hey Mikey, it seems to me that people have gotten louder lately… what’s up with that?” I have to admit that my first impulse was to
A Defense of Political Correctness
As I begin what turns out to be the third rewrite of this blog post, I find myself curious – why, given the title, are you reading it? I suspect that there are several different camps here… I’m guessing some
Altitude Thickness
As at least a couple of people know, Janet and I recently moved to Colorado Springs. It’s a beautiful city known for snow, NORAD, and a toxic substance called altitude. When I was a young man, naive and impressionable, I
Living Absolutely…
Yesterday I was looking at some stuff that I had in a ‘saved’ folder in an old email account that I no longer use. I found a blog post that I’d written just a few weeks after the attacks on
Talkin’ ’bout My Generation
As card-carrying members of the modern techie generation, my wife and I work from home – sharing a home office, wireless broadband, and a Rhapsody account. Fortunately, we share a similar taste in music. At the moment, Janet is obsessed