Kahomono - Still Lucky After All These Years

The UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, says he's going to ban strong encryption within his country. Somehow this is going to make everyone safe from terrorists. I have some questions: When that notoriously left-wing publication, Forbes, caught up with Internet security expert Bruce Schneier for his…

Colorado’s Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success This is Colorado's approach to anti-abortion, and it's working great. A reality based program: How is this startling? Who at the NY Times was surprised this would work? When women have a choice, they choose a…

Welcome to the new home of this blog; I'm glad you found your way here. There's work to do yet setting up all the features exactly as I want, but I think it's close enough to ready to take it out for a spin and…

A little bit of a disturbing story by Margaret Biser on Vox about her experiences as a tour guide on a former slave-owning plantation. Even visitors to a plantation famous for how slaves built it and operated it don't want to hear about how slavery was not…

so smug! Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, has been instructing county clerks across that state to disregard the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. To disobey the law of the land. "How can that be?", you say. "Isn't he sworn to obey…