A relative who programmed in Cobol used to say something like this, all the time. It is partly wrong and partly right. Higher level languages may waste a lot of space, but they do allow programmers to complete larger projects more quickly and sometimes without having to know as much.  On the other hand, when you…

I am not sure how much name recognition Inslee has right here in his own State.  He has refused to support the Green New Deal, just because he is relatively pragmatic and the Green New Deal is stupid.  What chance does he have?  He will get between one and three percent of the vote in the Primary.

How are you on Marmite?

Racism in the arts can be a matter of interpretation. Authors and artists do have much more latitude than people in real life. In “The Umbrella Academy”

“Hot Pursuit” relating to entering homes without a warrant:

Hot pursuit would remove any legal requirement for the police to identify themselves when entering the yard. Even if the claim that they were concerned about the safety of the residents of the home is bullshit, hot pursuit of someone suspected of breaking car windows, would allow police to enter property or even a…

If President Trump is going to build a wall, this way, declaring a State of Emergency, then he should have been using bonafide Emergency Declarations, for disasters that occurred over the last couple of years in border states, and those that happen during the rest of his term.  There is no need to make a fake…

Why didn’t Aveda King make this list?

Well, the point is that OAC is threatening her moderate colleagues with an “Enemies list.”  

The water treatment plant appears to be intended to treat sewer water and release it into the river. Were this water, instead, given to a largely black community as drinking water, even if further treated, all hell would break loose.

This rent control in Oregon is toothless. I mean, except in a few special “Location, Location, location,” situations, and short of a Jimmy Carter magnitude, inflation crisis, landlords were not going to raise rents nine or ten percent in Oregon, anyway, not in one year. This law is about cover for Dems in power in…

We Republicans prefer to compare it to McCarthyism, blacklists and all.

“The boy,” number 5 has no name, so this can be confusing. Ben is the name of “The Horror” who only appears as a ghost, courtesy the powers of Klaus, “The Séance,” Hargreaves. The characters begin with no names and give themselves names after Number 5, played by Aidan Gallagher, is stranded in the future apocalypse. …

Eastern Washington, outside of Spokane City, is on board the Trump Train. The Washington coast is progressive in a Nancy Pelosi sort of way. The population on the coast is so much higher, that the rest of the state doesn’t count for much in elections, but remains defiant, praying for an invasion and conquest by…

We may have lost our governor, but we get something back.

I binge watched “The Umbrella Academy” on Netflix. It seemed much better than reviews on Fusion, here, but there are some as yet undiscussed racist and sexist elements of the story. Luther, the white guy hero, whose superpower is strength, is sweet on his stepsister who is a woman of color, whose superpower is making…

I wonder if this sort of accident inspired those can openers that open the can from the side.  

Consider, though what the idiom, “A Cat’s paw,” means in English.

Condiment packages can be an issue for some foodservice stores. At my grocery store with a small supermarket, deli, the strategy is to be very low priced, compared to franchise operations. We may sell a cheap, frozen burrito, deep fried out of the factory box, for 89 cents plus tax. But, some customers want sauces…

As a grocer, I once had this customer that only ate burritos and smelled like a very large burrito.  People smell like tea if they drink a lot of tea.  Chocolate can also have this effect.  And then, garlic and onions, of course, everyone knows and there was that recent story, on Fusion, here somewhere about the…