by Michael Pearce | Nov 4, 2014 | Blog
Should anyone wishing to purchase a handgun or other firearm have to submit to a background check, whether it is a private or commercial sale? The fact is all commercial sales require this already. All the larger gun shows require that you be a member of the...
by Michael Pearce | Nov 3, 2014 | Blog
Ever since I was in school practical fusion power was ‘twenty years away.’ Fusion power is ‘clean,’ abundant energy. Inventing a practical, useful fusion reactor would rank somewhere in the neighborhood of inventing fire or the wheel. As of...
by Michael Pearce | Oct 28, 2014 | Blog
Why am I inclined to believe the worst about #Gamergate? Because I am a gamer, primarily playing MMOs. Maybe this is unfair of me, and there is no doubt whatsoever that I am predisposed to think the worst of them because of my own experience online. Play a few games...
by Michael Pearce | Oct 17, 2014 | Blog
So it’s that time again; time for a lovely walk in the autumn woods that I might spoil by shooting a deer. So this morning I rose at 3:30 AM, showered, had a cup of coffee and hit the road. Just after 6:30 AM I pulled up at the Happy Hunting Grounds, enjoyed...
by Michael Pearce | Sep 23, 2014 | Blog
These days the word feminism is strangely unpopular. It’s opponents have assigned it a connotation of ‘man-hating’ and masculinization of women, and many women have accepted this to the extent that they are loathe to identify as a...
by Michael Pearce | Sep 19, 2014 | Blog
In the nineteen-eighties when I first had a go at writing technology didn’t play much of a role. Yes, I had a state-of-the-art writing tool – an electric typewriter that was about the size of a laptop (though about four times as thick) and was designed to...