Category: Daily Column

Facts are inconvenient things.

Lies are told to procure gains illicitly. Those who make a living from lies hate to see their...

There are two kinds of morons, intellectual and…

There are two kinds of morons, intellectual and spiritual. The Programmer allows frauds to exist. They’re a handy...

The unfortunate divide.

Living in a small town to which many Catholics fled after their city neighborhoods were destroyed by vicious...

Philadelphia, Quakerism taken municipal form.

The Penn family, pious Quakers, owned slaves. Sometimes, they promised to free their slaves when they died. They...

Poem of Philadelphia

Philadelphia is in the south-east corner of Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh is in the south-west corner. The rest of the...

More “news behind the news”.

Some Phila. Cabbies Refuse Rides to Visually Impaired by KYW’s John McDevitt “Even though it’s the law, some...

The news behind the news behind the news.

News story: Real story: Global warming threatens world & people. We need excuses for more taxes and less...

Sin measures the gap between us and The Programmer

When an uncorrupted disc is inserted properly into a computer, it hums happily away. When we are obedient...

The Programmer is Programming, all’s right…

The wonderful thing about mass communications is that it lets us see how imaginary most problems are. In...

When there are no convenient countries to loot,…

Taxes are a measurement of tyranny. A country with a ten percent tax rate, not dissimilar to most...