The Dude is pretty upset that SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act, setting the state of Tennessee up within just days of that Louisiana challenge to gerrymander the city of Memphis into three new districts that stretch hundreds of miles into rural areas, and the city of Nashville into five districts to further dilute minority…

It’s a weekend, and time for a post. As you may have noticed, the site has undergone yet another renovation, leveraging some more sophisticated pages, as well as being moved from a static generated site to a hosted platform. The static site was great fun and a wonderful learning experience, but it was admittedly pretty…

Oh my. So the election, which was predicted to be a toss-up, went to the 45th President of the United States. It also appears that the Senate and the House will be controlled by the President’s party, as well as the Supreme Court. Not entirely unexpected, but now what? There were proposals to deport millions…

It’s been a hot minute since The Dude has posted here. Looking forward to the end of the endless election season. There is widespread anxiety and trepidation about the result, but most seem to agree that resolution will be good regardless. This doesn’t mean that The Dude doesn’t have an opinion on the result, or…

The Dude has removed his Twitter account. After being a user for years, the recent acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk has generated some controversy– he has fired roughly 66% of the employees, including the teams responsible for keeping trolls and others off the platform, as well as generally just spreading chaos. He’s also decided…

There has been a flurry of activity recently in the EU regulatory space, namely the announcement of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and the Digital Services Act (DSA). The Dude has been following this with interest, for the same reasons that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is interesting. What he means by this is…

The Dude has been thinking about what else to write on—so many topics, but so little time. Some idle musings. One thing he’s found interesting lately is the cryptocurrency space—not the wild-eyed libertarian “Kill the banks! Kill the government” stuff. That’s not his jam. In fact, he is actively and aggressively opposed to that point…

An election. Pretty cool invention– allowing for the peaceful transferral of power between competing political philosophies within a single locale. Of course, there is an assumption here that the involved political philosophies see value in a peaceful transferral of power– if they don’t, if they are spoiling for a fight, or have decided that they…

Just slogged through the entire Peter Strzok hearing– all seven hours of it. The most striking part of the testimony was how composed, professional, and cogent he was in the face of the ridiculously transparent and self serving questioning coming from the Republicans. It was clear pretty early on that they were trying to draw…

So The Dude just read in the New York Times that bp isn’t going to be able to repair the Deepwater Horizon leak until August. August. The worst oil disaster in U.S. history as of this writing is going to continue for two more months. Conservative government estimates released on May 27th is that the…