Author: Richard A Reagan

Recent news brought to light that Apple contractors frequently listen in to people’s sexual encounters. Their job is to monitor conversations overheard by Apple’s Siri voice assistant and perform quality control to make sure that Siri is doing its job. Part of that involves listening to conversations recorded by Siri, some of which may be […]

One thing that has characterized political debate in recent years is the profusion of insults that pass for argument. Chief among them is one of the oldest in the book, the accusation of racism. Pretty much everything you hear from the left today when criticizing President Trump, Republicans, or just about anyone to the right […]

If there’s a country that could challenge North Korea for world’s least predictable government, Turkey would have to be it. Recent actions taken by the Turkish government have people scratching their heads wondering what exactly President Erdogan is doing. His seeming determination to anger both the United States and the European Union risks completely upending […]

If there’s a country that could challenge North Korea for world’s least predictable government, Turkey would have to be it. Recent actions taken by the Turkish government have people scratching their heads wondering what exactly President Erdogan is doing. His seeming determination to anger both the United States and the European Union risks completely upending […]

More and more research is being done all the time to discover the importance of gut bacteria to overall health. Whereas once the gut was all but ignored, the huge amount of biodiversity within our guts is increasingly becoming a topic of study. And more and more evidence is pointing to the importance of a […]

Hugelkultur comes from a German term for hill culture, and it refers to a method of growing plants in mounds or hills. Those mounds are created by placing together a wide variety of different organic materials to give the plants grown on them a significant amount of decaying material from which to draw nutrients. If […]

Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress last week in appearances that were widely panned. The consensus was that Mueller left Democrats with egg on their faces. Many analysts noticed that Mueller didn’t seem to be familiar with much of the detail of his report, almost as though he were a CEO who signed off […]

Attorney General William Barr has gone on record to ask that all tech companies provide backdoors into their encrypted products. According to Barr, consumers should be willing to accept the risk of being hacked by criminals so that government authorities can have the ability to access their electronic devices at any time. It’s a completely […]

Many of us know that stock markets have always been a poor proxy for judging the health of an economy. But most people do it anyway. When stock markets do well, the economy is judged to be doing well. When stock markets do poorly, the economy is judged to be performing poorly. But what most […]

We like to think of America as a free country. Many of us expect to be able to do whatever we want as long as we’re not bothering anybody. But more and more often busybody governments are looking to interfere in mundane areas of everyday life. While code enforcement is often held up by local […]