by Jim McIntosh | May 18, 2017 | Musings, Observations |
Those of us who grew up in the Washington, D.C., area know that government workers are people who have dedicated themselves to public service. Many times, they have to take a salary lower than they would have gotten in the private sector, but they do this out of a...
by Jim McIntosh | Apr 1, 2017 | Musings, Observations |
Security agencies had expected the adoption of encryption technologies to slowly develop. James Clapper, the former head of U.S. National Intelligence, said that with the revelations made by Edward Snowden the use of encryption jumped ahead by seven years. I wonder if...
by Jim McIntosh | Jan 9, 2017 | Musings, Observations |
On Oct 9, 2013, I wrote a blog post about how I was breaking out of Apple’s Crystal Prison by moving from an iPhone to an Android smartphone. Instead of upgrading from an iPhone 4 to 5S, I instead bought a Samsung Note 3. Well, after struggling with Android for...
by Jim McIntosh | Sep 23, 2015 | Church, Observations |
Sex. As a society, we are obsessed with sex. It is, at the same time, both widely available through Internet porn and also something hidden away and whispered about. Perhaps because it is repressed, sex has become an obsession for us. Due to our obsession, it is what...
by Jim McIntosh | Sep 15, 2013 | Musings, Observations |
I went on a retreat last weekend with the Spanish-speaking Secular Franciscan fraternity which meets at St. Anthony Shrine. We were at a beautiful Benedictine monastery in Still River, Mass. The weather was perfect, with blue skies, warm days and cool nights. The...
by Jim McIntosh | Aug 31, 2013 | Observations |
“The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” –Barack Obama, 2007...
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