Now you can listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! I’m not a person who normally buys into conspiracy theories. You know what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the crazy scenarios that people invent to connect otherwise unconnectable events. While I do believe the government keeps us in
If you believe the experts, I should have had COVID-19 by now. Because I haven’t bought into the COVID panic, and I don’t take any precautions. I don’t social distance and I don’t wear a mask while driving my car, walking my dog or riding my bike. In fact, the
Late last summer, I jokingly told my dad that the virus would magically disappear on November 4th because that was the day after the election. Looking back, I can see I was a bit naïve. The magic date wasn’t November 4th, it was January 20th. You see, if the virus
I’m about to say something that’s likely to trigger a lot of people: Boys and girls are not the same. There. I said it. It doesn’t seem like that should be controversial, but apparently it is. Let’s continue. If you stood a boy and a girl side-by-side and asked anyone
I was watching an episode of Star Trek: Discovery last night and saw a cameo appearance by Mr. Spock. He has spoken many a wise thing over the years and I suspect that, given the chance, Mr. Spock would have quite a lot to say about the 2020 election. If
I’m going to start out by saying that I’m not against vaccines. I got a flu shot this year and I recently had a vaccine to prevent shingles. As far as I know, I’m up to date on all of my vaccines. So, I have no problem taking vaccines. The
Let me see a show of hands…how many of you reading this were at child at one point or another in your life? Hold them high…good…1,2,3…OK. That looks like just about everyone. I want you to remember back to a conversation I’m sure we all had with our parents at
Governor Andrew Cuomo (NY) said earlier this year, “And if everything we do saves just one life, I’ll be happy.” The concept here is pretty simple, it’s OK to put the interests of a single person over the interests of everyone else. Unfortunately, this seems to be the prevailing school
In the late 90’s I was working for a video game developer in Austin. One day, Frank, a member of my team, walked into my office and grabbed a whiteboard marker. “I’ve got you figured out”, said Frank. “Oh really?”, I replied “Yup. Let’s imagine there are two asteroids traveling
We are being asked to believe increasingly crazy things. And, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to determine what’s true and what isn’t. It used to be that there were limited tools available for communication. You could say something, write something or draw a picture of something. Hearing something is less powerful