[lead dropcap="yes"]When we bought our house it didn’t have a doorbell and we never installed one. We made the reasonable assumption that with a house this small, you could usually hear a door knock anywhere in the house. But when I saw the Ring... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]I’m going out on a limb to predict what I think will be a major new feature in the next iPhone. For months, rumor sites have predicted that the new iPhone will no longer have a headphone jack. At first it seemed far-fetched, but... [Continue Reading]
The Verge asks why we have such a hard time letting go of our pop culture, demanding that each beloved book, movie or TV series continue in a new form, never letting the characters go: The problem isn’t simply that we’re getting more of something we... [Continue Reading]
Technology should either make complicated things simpler to use or, if they must be more complicated, give you new features that you need. That's where the current generation of smart TVs fail, and Walt Mossberg agrees. But learning to use the TV is... [Continue Reading]
You never know when some pedestrian piece of writing is going to go viral. Sometimes it's benign like this ambitious out-of-office autoreply. Hopefully it's not a career-ending tweet. But in this case, a Dallas News editor's attempt to create a... [Continue Reading]
Democrat National Convention delegates were outraged last week that Chick-fil-A has a concession contract with the Wells Fargo Arena in Philadelphia and was allowed to sell its products during the DNC. Liberals began their hate on Chick-fil-A... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]Bourbon is the hot trend in adult beverages and a lot of distilleries are taking advantage of the increased demand to do some interesting small batches. Jefferson's Bourbon, named after President Thomas, is a small batch Kentucky... [Continue Reading]
At the Republican convention last week, internet entrepreneur Peter Thiel echoed a lot of fiscally conservative Republicans today when he told social conservatives to stop letting things like bathroom gender policies (and presumably gay marriage and... [Continue Reading]
There's a movement afoot to get jousting into the 2020 Summer Olympics. Yes, jousting. Men in armor on horseback, knocking each out of their saddles with 12-foot lances. Sewell said jousting, which requires “a huge amount of skill and involves a... [Continue Reading]
When the mainstream media is accused of being biased in favor of the Democrats, many journalists vehemently deny that such is the case. Perhaps many journalists are in fact unbiased reporters. In that case, when we have obvious cases of collusion... [Continue Reading]