Computing chaos: When CrowdStrike sneezes, the entire business world catches a cold
On July 18, the average person had no idea what “CrowdStrike” was. That changed in a hurry when a minor programming error in a mandatory, and automatically…
How the bosses beat Biden: Obama and other leaders are the real center of power in the party
On July 18, the average person had no idea what “CrowdStrike” was. That changed in a hurry when a minor programming error in a mandatory, and automatically…
Former President Ronald Reagan had been out of office for five years when he returned to Washington, D.C., to address a Republican National Committee fundraiser. It was…
Blame those conservatives who insisted so loudly and for so long that it was going to happen. Blame the conspiracy theorists, who ended up being right once…
The most memorable piece of information from my Bush-Quayle-era AP Biology class has nothing to do with cellular mitosis, genotypes, or, really, any scientific concept. Rather, it’s…
President Joe Biden’s shock July 21 announcement on X that he would not stand for reelection, months after securing enough delegates to be his party’s standard-bearer, left…
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has been heralded as a sort of intellectual progenitor of “Trumpism” as a political philosophy. The Ohio senator’s career…
In the ever-expanding category of political behavior that is shocking but hardly surprising is Vice President Kamala Harris’s ostentatious snub of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as…
The honor of carrying the flag for the Olympic opening ceremony often falls to those who represent the country the best. In other cases, it falls to…
Texas is the largest oil producer in the United States. Nothing surprising there, but the state is also, perhaps less well known, the largest producer of wind…
One of our wisest philosophers (Homer Simpson) described television as “teacher, mother, secret lover.” Reality television belongs to that final classification, a mistress we can’t quite quit…