As the world’s economies continue to suffer the results of decades of corruption, mismanagement and greed, more and more working-class people are finding themselves out of work.

And many of those who still have jobs are having to work harder and for longer hours — while agreeing to accept [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve been using Linux full-time instead of Microsoft Windows since July of 2006.

For security, I use Linux’s built-in firewall — that’s all. Linux is designed from the ground-up to be far more secure than Windows. That’s one reason why [more...]

When my wife was a child, her father was a schoolteacher, so he was off of work every summer.

Every summer, their family would go on a long car trip, camping in tents or living out of a trailer that they pulled behind their station wagon.

As a result, my wife and her siblings got to [more...]

As you can see by the topic list in the right column of this site’s home page, I cover a very wide variety of topics in this daily Journal.

But every once in awhile, despite “checking all my traps,” I don’t find any story that I feel like writing about. [more...]

When I was in grade school, I was taught that a dictionary is a living document.

Rather than enforcing language, it reflects common usage at the time of its writing.

In so doing, it grows and changes over time, as [more...]