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“Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.
Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including [more...]
When I was a kid, I bought over 50 used, hardcover Tom Swift, Jr. and Hardy Boys books at my church’s annual rummage sale. If I remember correctly, they only cost me five or ten cents apiece.
I spent many hours nestled up in the branches of a crabapple tree — and many more hours sitting under a pyramid of covers in bed, with a flashlight, late at night — reading those enthralling adventures. [more...]
The Sunshine State is a huge peninsula that juts out from the southeast United States into both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.
I live a few minutes from the coast, in an area that’s filled with picturesque ponds, lakes and streams.
So I’m used to being surrounded by water. [more...]
Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve never trusted free online service providers like Google or Yahoo! with any of my personal or confidential data.
And I have absolutely no interest in storing any of my data — confidential or not — “in the cloud.”
So, instead of using online applications that [more...]
It’s been proven over and over again.
Sports fans can’t do it.
Political pundits can’t do it.
Even television meteorologists with college degrees and [more...]
I’m using a 22-inch widescreen LCD monitor as I type this.
And you’re probably using an LCD monitor to read this.
That’s because, in the past several years, light, flat, energy-efficient LCD screens have gotten cheap enough to replace nearly everyone’s heavy, energy-guzzling CRT monitors. [more...]
Regular readers of this Journal and Web site know that I’ve survived more than my share of personal tragedy, heartache and trauma.
But I agree with the old saying: “You can’t control what happens to you in life — you can only control how you react to it.”
So I’ve always tried to find meaning and purpose in my [more...]
Here’s some news that promises to be a legal, ethical and emotional double-edged sword for anyone who currently has — or who has ever had — a loved in a persistent vegetative state.
“Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts. [more...]
As a technophile, I’m always interested in new technologies — whether they’re demonstrated in tiny, consumer-oriented gadgets or in huge, ecologically friendly infrastructures.
Here’s a new technology of the latter type that appears to have a lot of promise for the future: “A Louisville, Colorado, company says it has perfected a solar-energy technology capable of producing [more...]