by Dale | May 26, 2015 | Articles
I should stop reading the internet.Across the United States it is Memorial Day. While the origins of the holiday continue to be disputed, with many towns across the country claiming to have been the “first” to have held such observances, all start roughly...
by Dale | May 18, 2015 | Articles
One-hundred forty pages of sheer brilliance.I’m not sure how to properly review Paul Lockhart’s incredible little book. The jacket sleeve contains all of the superlatives from great mathematicians (presumably, because I don’t really know their names,...
by Dale | Apr 4, 2015 | Articles
So, evidently, one of the flyover states had a meltdown this past week. I was just coming back from travel so I had my head down catching up with work. The Indiana legislature decided to pass its own Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Reader’s Digest version...
by Dale | Mar 22, 2015 | Articles
I’m not much of a revolutionary.I have 24 years (some broken time) in the Marine Corps – about equally split between Active and Reserve – Other Government service, and I’m a fairly patriotic guy. In fact, it would be no exaggeration to say that...
by Dale | Jan 27, 2015 | Articles
I had an interesting conversation with a colleague today. It started out about work but somehow morphed into something more philosophical: Liberty. Yes, I discuss Liberty with my friends and colleagues. My kids, too.I spent almost the entirety of my adult life in the...
by Dale | Sep 24, 2014 | Articles
I never really knew anything about cancer. There’s zero of it in my family. No one I know (with a couple of exceptions I’ll discuss) has died of it. Not a grandparent, great grandparent, uncle, or cousin – on either mom’s or dad’s side....
