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[lead dropcap="yes"]Well, I’m moving on again. For the past two years, I’ve been Director of Community Engagement for Massachusetts Citizens for Life, an organization doing important work holding the line on assisted suicide against well-funded... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]My brother had solar panels installed on his house by SolarCity about 3 or 4 years ago now, right near the beginning of the new leased solar panel trend. In the past, you had to buy a solar panel setup outright, often at the cost... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]Occasionally, I get asked what podcasts I’m listening to these days, especially since people know I’m very much involved with Catholic podcasting, as the executive director of SQPN. And so here’s a list of podcasts I’m listening... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]On my commute to work on Boston’s Southeast Expressway, there is a carpenter’s union building right next to the highway with a billboard. In addition to the usual pro-union messages, they occasionally have other sorts of... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]I just finished reading the science fiction novella, “The Vital Abyss”, by James S.A. Corey, which takes place in their “Expanse” milieu1. The story revolves around the fate of some scientists who engaged in the most horrific act... [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]
At the end of May we purchased a new family vehicle, a 2015 Ford Transit Wagon, to replace our aging Buick Terraza minivan. It’s quite the upgrade. We’d had the Buick for about 10 years and we have been talking about replacing it for the last five... [Continue Reading]
Update: For more must-have Mac apps, see my follow up article where I give you six more apps. [lead dropcap="yes"]As a known Mac geek in my social circles, I often hear from people who are switching to Macs or iPhones or iPads and asked my advice... [Continue Reading]
From Rod Dreher today on Obama's transgender bathroom policy: Think about it: we already expect so much of our public schools, and now … this? Is it really so important to force schools to let boys play on girl teams, and vice versa, and so forth... [Continue Reading]
As I mentioned in my year-end retrospective, I have the new AppleTV that allows third-party apps and have combined it with my Synology NAS[1] running the Plex service to serve up all kinds of multimedia straight to my TV. To complete the circuit... [Continue Reading]