Author Archives: Shawn Levasseur
Biden’s VP Dilemma
Over at Knappster, Thomas Knapp and his brother muse on the prospects of who Joe Biden would pick as his Vice-Presidential running mate (presuming that he is the nominee for the democrats. There’s been some chatter about her running for president, but that seems unlikely. We’ve already seen what happens to former first ladies who get […]
Tweets of the Week – The Amusing
Tweets of the Week – Tech
I HATE crap like that. The only CLOSE to valid reason for something like that, is video codecs that aren’t supported on other browsers; but even then…
Tweets of the week – Politics & News
Matt Welch tweets on NYC’s public education system:
Supreme Court term limits?
I forget how I came across it, but I was recently engrossed in [this article about term limits for the Supreme Court, “A Better System for Appointing Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court” by Andrew Johnson.][1]
[1]: https://medium.com/@andrjohn751/a-better-system-for-putting-judges-on-the-u-s-supreme-court-bce9962ef0eb
I have some detailed thoughts on it,
Student IDs and security
Recently, Dave Mark at The Loop commented on the news that many colleges would be enabling digital student IDs on Apple Wallet on iPhones and Apple Watches: As recently as a few years ago, a large number of colleges used a student’s social security number as their student ID and, even worse, printed those numbers […]
Tweets of the Week – Politics & News
Okay, for a first time out, this goes a bit more than a week, so it’s a bit long.