I want my Original Recipe
Our Supreme Court Originalists went on another trip back in time with their decision on Presidential Immunity. Unfortunately, they screwed up the settings on the Wayback Machine, overshot the American…
How did we get here?
Rick Perlstein is an acclaimed historian and author of several books about American politics, from the 1960s to the present. He is currently a special guest columnist for The American…
A tale of two headlines
My local newspaper, like most, is a ghost of its former self. It has a handful of reporters and columnists who write interesting stuff, but much of its content is…
Tapo unplugged
He looks pretty disappointed, but I brought Tapo onboard to make it easier to turn my Christmas tree on and off, so it was only meant to be seasonal work.
A million edge cases
When reading articles about “autonomous” vehicles, one phrase will repeatedly come up. Some bad behavior just happened, and a software source will say something to the effect that “this is…
Artificial Intelligence: working hard or hardly working?
I have been posting a lot about artificial intelligence technology here, mostly about autonomous cars. When I study an unfamiliar topic like this, I like to find a good reference…
Going around in circles
My office is on the second floor of our house. We are on a street that goes nowhere, as it just loops back to the road that it came from.…
Self-driving cars update – be alarmed
I didn’t intend to become a clearinghouse for self-driving car and taxi updates, but I guess that it shows that my attention span is improving with recent reading and writing,…
Most valuable letter to the editor
Last week, an opinion column appeared in the San Jose Mercury News that just didn’t seem right to me. It was by a writer that I had never heard of,…
But what about self-driving taxis?
I wrote an earlier note about how self-driving cars are not happening. So why do we still read about self-driving taxi trials in San Francisco and Phoenix? It is very…