Tax refunds are way less this year compared to last year. Some are getting no refunds are all! There is much consternation and gnashing of teeth. Low to middle income families – the ones who most benefit from Child Tax…

Gosh, Charles McGonigal takes being a dirty corrupt cop to whole new levels. The DoJ statement says “”Charles McGonigal, 54, a former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office, has been arrested on charges relating to…

Reservoirs are filling in California. Precipitation and snowpack in Nevada and crucially, in Colorado, are way above the median. Excellent. Climate change means the climate fluctuates more than before. Let’s hope we get lots many such storm systems this year…

Republicans first said the IRS was hiring 87,000 new armed IRS CI agents. Well, that was such a ridiculous claim that everyone knew it was false. Then they said it was 87,000 IRS agents. Nope, that’s a rubbish claim too.…

Sometimes figuring out WordPress errors is a fun, if sometimes frustrating, puzzle. A client reported her site was down. It had a 500 error – which to use highly technical language – means something is seriously borked. Pressable tech support…

Jail Guitars Doors brings guitars, songwriting and music classes to prisons. It was co-founded by MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, who served time in federal prison for drugs. So, he’s been there. Kramer started it based on a similar foundation in…

Iowa now gets 57% of its electricity from in-state wind energy, and it does this consistently. Texas produces way more megawatts of wind energy than other states. No other state is even close. Yes, I know, this is completely the…

Crazy Elon thinks banning links to other social media will somehow stop Twitter from self-destructing. It won’t. Instead,it will speed the process, as more advertisers and users leave. Mastodon in particular is thriving now. Lots of journalists there now. All…