One year ago, I wrote in this blog, “I am trying very hard not to “sell you tickets to the ghost train”. This train is real.” Yes, this train is real, but the quote is apt. The song I sing at the Gateway Arch “Freedom Train” recounts American History from […]
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was published in 1906. Here is what babies and children were fed, There were many such dangers, in which the odds were all against them. Their children were not as well as they had been at home; but how could they know that there was […]
The technology of censorship starts with an automated and/or manual scanning of speech segments. This can be a textual scanning or spoken speech. Then, the text and/or spoken words are then disambiguated, parsed into some level of meaning. At the simplest level, meaning can be an automated lookup of keywords […]
Gamblers are always trying to beat the house. Sometimes they succeed. Almost always their strategies are based on being unpredictable, and in games like poker, bluffing. You can have a lousy hand, but if you bluff you can win big. The house always plays predictably. That is the winning strategy. […]
After I recorded “Four Dead in Ohio”, a friend informed me that Neil Young was homophobic. I have always held Neil Young in high regard, a rock stars that sent a real message — anti-war, rock for a better world, etc., etc., etc. I didn’t believe that this could be […]
US / Russia escalate conventional de-escalate conventional go nuclear surrender / regime change escalate conventional win / lose win / win lose / lose win / win de-escalate conventional lose / win win / win lose / lose win / win go nuclear lose / lose lose / lose lose […]
I am standing on a soap box. I am an Independent candidate for US Senate for Missouri. I have about 230 signatures from registered Missouri voters and I need 10,000 for ballot access to the general election. Still, I am a registered with the US Federal Elections Commission (FEC) for […]
I really hope that the GOP sorts itself out. At the national level in Washington D.C., Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger both House Republicans are leading the House Committee holding hearings on “what really happened on January Sixth?” And you have Mitch McConnell who is the GOP Senate minority leader […]
Hi Jay Ashcroft, I registered with the U.S. Federal Elections Commission as a Candidate for the U.S. Senate for Missouri in 2022. At that time, I noted that my Party affiliation was unknown. The date was February 6, 2021. In past elections, I have registered as Republican, Democratic, and sometimes […]
Noted Harvard Law School professor and lawyer famous for defending O.J. and Klaus Von Bulow asked this question in his recent tweet Can the president constitutionally restrict his Nomination to a black woman? https://t.co/piH6j64S7o — Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) January 28, 2022 I replied to his tweet with two tweets, Yes, […]
This is a clue from the New York Times crossword puzzle of 2022-Jan-25. I am not going to spoil the puzzle for you as I had a lot of fun solving it. I like doing crossword puzzles. Anyhow, this blog post is about more serious matters. Yesterday, one of my […]
Another campaign promise is that in my first 100 days as Senator, I will work to increase the overall intelligence level of the US Congress. This can be considered a jibe at the current intelligence level of congressmen and women, but it really is a serious exhortation. And an incredible […]