Google is unbelievably frustrating!<\/b> My brother had a Google Home device. In order to get it to do something, you have to say “Hey Google,” or “Hello Google.” You can’t customize that — as I could on my old Android (non-Google) phone. So if there are two Google devices in a room — for example, his Google Home and my Pixel — they both respond. <\/p>\n
Didn’t anybody at Google consider this possibility? <\/p>\n
I hate modern light bulbs.<\/b> Depending on what kind you get, they (1) don’t turn on right away, (2) flicker, (3) don’t last 1\/10 the time they claim to last, and (4) contain dangerous chemicals. In addition to all that, they’re more expensive. <\/p>\n
Every time I use one of these stupid things I curse Congress for requiring them. <\/p>\n
Is football too violent?<\/b> The Damar Hamlin story has drawn attention to the violence of football, although it shouldn’t. There was nothing particularly violent about the play, and we don’t know whether the play had anything to do with his health issues. Even if it was (a “blow-induced arrhythmia,” some say) it wasn’t all that shocking of a blow, and those circumstances are very rare. <\/p>\n
However, we should not<\/i> have “a conversation” about this. Because “a conversation” means that the liberals get to lecture and everybody else has to shut up. That’s what the word seems to mean these days. <\/p>\n
It would be nice to have a rational discussion, if that’s possible. <\/p>\n
First, football is violent, and that’s a good thing. We need violent sports. Young men need relatively safe and controlled ways to be violent. A country with no violent sports is a country ripe for being conquered. <\/p>\n
Second, yes, football may be too<\/i> violent. They’ve made it safer over the years, and I hope they can make it safer still without turning it into a sissy game. <\/p>\n
Football will always have risks. You can’t have large bodies running around on a field without some risk of injury. And that’s okay. Injuries are unfortunate, but they’re not the end of the world, and it’s not as if the rest of life is safe either. People get injured taking showers, driving, walking, etc. <\/p>\n
We have an epidemic of fatherlessness.<\/b> The Daily Signal podcast has a good show on fatherlessness. Look up “Kris Vallotton on Devastating ‘Pandemic of Fatherlessness.'” He’s a little hard to listen to, but he has a lot of interesting things to say. And he doesn’t propose an easy solution — elect this candidate, pass this law, etc. It took decades to get into this mess, and it’s going to take time to get out of it. If we can. <\/p>\n
I am more and more convinced that nothing short of a religious revival is going to save this country. <\/p>\n
The Biden classified document story is deliciously funny.<\/b> <\/p>\n
I have my doubts about Bryan Kohberger’s guilt.<\/b> I’m not a “true crime” fan, and I haven’t followed this case closely, but it seems to me that the murderer made mistakes that a criminology student would not make. <\/p>\n
Does anybody like this Harry guy?<\/b> I don’t follow the royals, but this guy seems intolerable, even without his harpy of a wife. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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