Author Archives: fulton

The U.S. Department of Justice last month served a search warrant on DreamHost, the company that hosts a website used to coordinate inauguration-day protests, asking for the IP addresses of the 1.3 million people who visited the site.  DreamHost‘s general … Continue reading →

A Fairfax County jury has imposed an $8.4 penalty on an amateur blogger who claimed that an Army officer up for promotion to General had raped her when they were cadets at West Point about 30 years ago.   The … Continue reading →

Our current stock market bubble is sort of scary. Articles trying to assess the impact of the six-month-long string of political crises plaguing us under President Trump have included reports of the ongoing surge in the U.S. stock market.  The … Continue reading →

Prisoners in Alabama have shown, yet again, the importance of having peanut butter within reach. Inmates in Walker County Jail saved peanut butter from their sandwiches and used it like modeling clay to alter the number above a door that … Continue reading →

A “surrogate” for Donald Trump on talkshows — a kind of spokesman — named Scottie Nell Hughes made an astoundingly honest statement on the The Diane Rehm Show the other day.  It explains, for example, why her man can utter … Continue reading →

It’s been a long three weeks since Donald Trump won the electoral college count to become President.  A lot of people are still trying to figure out how it happened.  Among the fact-driven articles are several compelling analyses — which, … Continue reading →

Contemporary American culture is full of characters who, often for a silly reason, get 15 minutes of fame — and then crash.  A man sitting in the front row during last week’s presidential debate/town-meeting, distinguished by his red sweater (which … Continue reading →

The Japanese Transportation Ministry’s coveted “Japan Toilet Award” encourages major highway managers to be creative and generous in providing facilities to the traveling public.  The New York Times last week had a feature about what the Nexco Central Nippon Expressway, … Continue reading →

The New York Times “Insider” column has uncovered another example of government being penny-wise and pound-foolish — as long as it’s what “the people” want.  It costs 1.43 cents to make a penny.  The federal government spent $39 million more … Continue reading →

Aaron E. Carroll, a professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine, published an article last weekend debunking the debunkers who say that the five-second rule is bunk.  The opponents of this time-tested rule claim that food that falls … Continue reading →