Women in the Media
by Two recent articles about the way women work and are portrayed in the media caught my attention. The contrast deserves an eye, I think. First, …
Author: marc
Marc is a software developer, writer, and part-time political know-it-all who currently resides in Texas in the good ol' U.S.A.
Wikipedia’s Authority
ValleyWag, the National Enquirer of the tech industry press, outed Jimmy Wales, founder and driving force behind Wikipedia, over the weekend for using his position …
Brownback on Broken American Families
Via the NY Times, former Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback writes, briefly and brilliantly about the plight of the American family and our youth two …
Houston Energy Summit Part II
Americans usually hear that energy-producing natural resources are in scarce supply. With regard to the current technological, regulatory, and economic context that is true. However, …
Houston Energy Summit, part 1
Energy industry leaders gathered in Houston yesterday to discuss the state of energy in the United States and the discussion immediately turned to economics. With …
Huckabee for President
Mike Huckabee brought his low-budget campaign to College Station, Texas today and wowed an overflowing auditorium filled primarily with Texas A&M University college students with …
Hillary Rocks in Houston
Facing a do-or-die primary in Texas, Hillary Clinton delivered a great speech at the Houston Presidential Energy Summit tonight. I was there and thought she …
Harvard Muslims Don’t Need to Assimilate
Harvard University has accepted a Muslim group’s petition to close the school’s Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center to me for an hour a day so that …
Personal Ethics and Islamophobia
ABC recently placed actors "undercover" in a Waco, Texas bakery to observe Texans’ reactions to public anti-Islamic discrimination. Not surprisingly, the outcomes ran the gamut …
Clinton Scores, but Not Enough
Barack Obama closed tonight’s Democratic debate saying that he’d participated in 20 debates with Hillary Clinton and that he had no doubt that Hillary Clinton …