by Scott Feldstein | Thursday, January 27, 2022 | rants
It’s the ultimate clickbait. And, yeah, I took the bait. But I just can’t let this one go. In the steaming pile of bullshirt that is this article, Jake Peterson tells us exactly why You Should Just Switch To Android Already. Apple, Peterson concedes, makes things that...
by Scott Feldstein | Saturday, January 15, 2022 | health
For most of the last ten or more years I had been using cheap reading glasses. But when I reached the point where I was using two different strengths, one to watch television and one to use a computer or smartphone, I realized it was time for proper prescription...
by Scott Feldstein | Tuesday, December 7, 2021 | politics, rants
American democracy, that is. I honestly think it’s very likely over. We are sliding–in slow motion but inexorably–toward authoritarianism. We are drifting toward a future America where we no longer have elections. In their place, we will have “elections.” Kind of like...
by Scott Feldstein | Thursday, December 2, 2021 | politics, rants
It was with some satisfaction that I watched Chris Hayes on tv earlier this evening explain how he has now come to the same conclusion that I arrived at long ago: the pro-life movement isn’t really about “life” as its adherents say, but rather about controlling...
by Scott Feldstein | Tuesday, November 30, 2021 | rants, tech
Common wisdom used to be that Apple’s Mac computers were “premium priced.” Which is a nice way of saying that you don’t get as much bang for your buck as you do with a Windows computer. I think there was always an element of truth to that, especially if you just went...