…The entire fifteen person, professional team that I was part of, looked up from what we were doing.  Obviously my colleague was going to vote for that candidate’s political opposition. “So this has degraded to the level of a middle school name calling session” was the thought that passed through my head…

…Old cars can be more than an obsession. They can even be a necessity. Many media outlets package the Havana, Cuba scene with exciting images of finely restored, late 1950s and early 1960s cars sashaying through a cityscape of elegantly decaying, multistory buildings as if in a Broadway show…

People living near the city of Milwaukee’s Lake Michigan shoreline are beginning to call her the S.S. Minnow in honor of the fictional boat with the same name from the 1960s Gilligan’s Island sitcom…

 A navigator can be fundamentally wrong and the world around that captain will be most severe because of the error…

What is a bad thing? Writers like me love to run with such ideas… Cartoon images of glowering blobs with fangs and angry, bloodshot eyes come to mind but that is only fiction… Every now and then democracies have an interesting discussion about a “bad thing.”…

After a long journey of frustrations – battles with hackers, pirates, and trolls, oh my! – I had to lay my previous site to rest and start anew.