Bilbo's Random Thought Collection

The mainstream news media is pissing me off. I'm sick and tired of useless softball interviews with political and business figures that ...

* Update: I wrote this post several days ago. Yesterday, this story appeared on CNN:  Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars after First Fatal Crash ...

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump loudly insisted he would "drain the swamp." In this, the second year of his ...

Mass murder by gunfire is not unknown in other countries, but it is immeasurably more prevalent here in the United States. There are many r...

Well, I actually don't hate yogurt ... what I hate is shopping for yogurt. Last Sunday I decided to make a recipe which required pl...

It's no secret that our national infrastructure - roads, bridges, railroads, and so on - is not in the shape it should be. There are lo...

There's a serious issue today that revolves around the accommodation of both religious beliefs and civil rights, and it's not likel...

Among the many remedies often suggested to help solve the problem of inept and unresponsive government is the imposition of term limits for...

Let us begin, Dear Readers, with these stirring words from the preamble to the  Republican Platform 2016 - "We believe the Constitu...

One of my favorite websites is " WordSpy ," which highlights new words and expressions. We linguists are funny that way. A few da...

You will recall, Dear Readers, that last week I started a discussion about reducing the size of the federal government. This is one area wh...

Yesterday in this space, I offered an initial look at my proposal for reorganizing the federal government. I'll be giving you more deta...

Yesterday I talked about the hue and cry over the size of government, and the lack of specific proposals for what to actually reduce. Well,...

This evening we will be treated (if I can abuse the word) to the second "debate" featuring the GOP presidential wannabes.  As wit...

Warning: this is a high-level touch-the-third-rail post. If you are not ready for rational and compassionate thought and discussion, go awa...

Tonight is the first of the "debates" among the GOP presidential candidates. I put the word "debates" in quotes because...

When six Service members were murdered in Chattanooga, Tennessee last week by a young Muslim man inflamed by radical Islamist teachings, th...

If you’ve been following the events in Baltimore over the last few weeks, you know that things are still tense. There has been a tremendous...

According to a recent article in the Washington Post , the ease of digitally submitting applications for government employment has led to a...

I ran across a fascinating article by Hanna Kozlowska last week - Here’s What People Did Before They Could Google Things . It describes the...