My mother's day got off to a great start.

Rip Chief Pontiac, Odawa leader, died this day 1769.

"They came with a Bible and their religion, stole our land, and crushed our spirit, and now tell us we should be thankful to the Lord for being saved."

Houston

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.

Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

When they talk about privatizing Veterans’ care and Medicare, they mean allowing companies to provide healthcare for a profit.

But how do companies make those profits? By *denying* care to many who need it.

Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.

All those cute scenes in movies where the grandma's are a-cookin'and shoo the menfolk out of their kitchen? Let me clue you in on something. Those women are raging on the inside, and they're all holding chopping knives. They know what might happen. Don't test them.

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

Two out of three of these cats wake me up every morning between 5 and 6 a.m. Meow.