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by Mike Schilling · December 12, 2013

Mike Schilling

Mike has been a software engineer far longer than he would like to admit. He has strong opinions on baseball, software, science fiction, comedy, contract bridge, and European history, any of which he's willing to share with almost no prompting whatsoever.

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Thursday Throughput: Decongestant Edition
September 14, 202316 Comments
And so here we are, 16 years later, a nation of 330 million people sniffing, snarking and snarling because a drug that has never demonstrated efficacy beyond placebo was foisted upon us as a replacement for a drug that actually, you know worked.
Kevin McCarthy Goes Fishing
September 13, 202341 Comments
Republicans who denounced Trump’s impeachments as political have apparently decided the more the merrier as Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden
Ignore the Biden-Trump Polls
September 12, 20233 Comments
All of the nuts and bolts of the Biden-Trump polls and election aside, with more than a year to go there is a lot of water yet to pass under the bridge.
A Real Problem For Retail? A Shoplifting Q and A
September 12, 2023125 Comments
Retail shoplifting has been a frequent topic in the news, on social media, and inspires passionate discourse. But how real is the problem?
Falling Rocks Break Everything
September 12, 20231 Comment
Covid didn't stop us, but a closed bridge will. The other kids on this side of the border are withdrawing from the school entirely for the semester.
Can She Do That? New Mexico Governor Suspends Gun Carry Laws
September 11, 2023140 Comments
Gov. Grisham’s orders raise many questions and concerns from both sides of the aisle. The most obvious is, “Why is she doing this now?”
9/11 at 22: Are We Forgetting?
September 11, 202312 Comments
May the memories of the 2,977 murdered on September 11, 2001 always be for a blessing. This must never be forgotten.
BRICS Without Mortar
September 9, 2023No Comments
Despite its recent expansion, the BRICS ‘alliance’ is nothing more than vaporware. Claims of the death of the American-led world order have been greatly exaggerated.
Mini-Throughput: Masks, Redux
September 8, 202385 Comments
I don't like masks but the hysteria over them seems fantastically out of proportion. I'm also not sure that we need to bring back mask mandates under the present circumstances.
POETS Day! Revisiting Clampitt with Cummings In Mind
September 8, 2023No Comments
There’s a valid complaint about poetry written beginning somewhere in the middle of the last century that claims modern poetry is written for a smaller and smaller audience of attuned readers

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