"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
After seven years of resistance and fightback against the Twin Tunnels boondoggle that would shunt water from the Sacramento Delta southward to the Central Valley and Southern California, California Governor Jerry Brown is thinking of scaling it back to just…
Gutenberg, the new underlying platform for WordPress, will start being implemented early this year in the editor. There is considerable gnashing of teeth about this in some circles because some existing plugins will not work with the Gutenberg editor. The…
The Oroville Dam in California suffered from a flawed design and construction, and had inadequate inspections in the decades since it was built in the 1960s. These ongoing errors and omissions, coupled with an overconfident Department of Water Resources created…
The small town of Ammon, Idaho needed broadband. Rather than going with big cable or big telco, they did it themselves. They used existing budgets for water, school, fire, and other municipal services to build the grid then – and…
Saying the Iran protests are somehow stage-managed by Washington is American Exceptionalism. It implies the US somehow controls the planet and that protesters, some of whom have been killed, are unknowing puppets. Which is really kind of insulting to the…
Some on the progressive / far left now have views on Trump / Russia that are indistinguishable from Fox News. It’s all fake news, they loudly proclaim, sounding quite a lot like Hannity. Part of this could be the belief…
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road, by Nick Bilton Ross Ulbricht is an extremist libertarian who wanted to live his life away from intrusive governments. He began by selling drugs on the dark…