Sales taxes and shelf prices in the United States
One of the many complaints the rest of the world has with the United States, and it’s one on which I share some sentiment, is with a particular part of ou...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Bump stocks and automatic operations
So according to the ATF and Sotomayor’s dissent in the “bump stock” case, Garland v. Cargill, these two operations are identical: and Yeah, ob...
Challenging a repeal
So a UNANIMOUS decision by the Supreme Court in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine quashes the entire lawsuit several pro-life groups brought against the ...
About that Hope Woodard video
If you have no idea who Hope Woodard is, don’t fret. I didn’t either until Courtney Ryan’s video on the matter showed up on my YouTube feed: N...
Lavazza and the point of diminishing returns
One concept I feel a lot of people in the espresso communities need to learn, or re-learn, is “point of diminishing returns”, sometimes also called ...
Revisiting Trump and the Fourteenth Amendment
So the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that States cannot exclude former-President (and current Republican front-runner) Donald Trump from their Republ...
Inspect your holsters!
Holsters serve two important purposes: they carry your firearm and, more importantly, they retain your firearm. The retention mechanisms in holsters are extreme...
Sidestepping Miranda
Several years ago I wrote an article going after an appellate court decision out of Washington that, in short, allowed police (in that State, at least) to sides...
When “unanimous” isn’t
When a jury in a criminal trial returns a unanimous verdict of “guilty”, we generally presume they are in 100% agreement on that verdict. But are th...
Check your mainboard battery
So let’s talk for a moment about a small part on your mainboard that might have a lot more influence over your system’s stability and even performan...