Gongol.com Archives: August 2016
August 4, 2016
"I was thinking about the kids and didn't want them all to be taken"
How could a parent allow a four-year-old child to be neglected to death? And how could a neighbor have permitted her concern about having the mother's other children "taken away" to override the welfare of the child she knew was being neglected? Everything about this story is just awful and indicts the way we protect the well-being of children.
Why Republican voters should warm up to Gary Johnson
He's far more in-tune with the conventional Republican belief in limited government than either of the other major candidates in the Presidential race
The poor, misused word "liberal"
Using it to describe the political left wing -- rather than in its historical context, which connoted openness and liberty -- misguides our politics
One-paragraph book review: "How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle"
Strongly recommended for job applicants and managers with hiring authority
Where are the big technology brands of the 1990s?
Names that once dominated the landscape are now nothing but relics and memories
It's been five years since color-coded terror alerts went away
They were useless from the moment they were created -- we were never going to go to the lowest levels of "alert". The color codes were just security theater.
