The useful life of the equipment is one of the major factors in computing cost effectiveness or return on investment in any commercial enterprise, along with one-time installation costs, labor, on-going maintenance, plus other recurring costs. (more…)

From John Gee.    (more…)

But our slaughter of the wholly innocent came two weeks ago.    (more…)

See here. But against the stupidities of our culture, even Santa struggles in vain. (more…)

Ann Coulter offers some inconvenient facts regarding what prevents mass shootings: concealed carry laws; and where mass shootings always happen: gun-free zones.

Other relevant links here (section header: LAW AND ORDER IN THE FALLEN WORLD), here and here.

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In late December 2006, an eighty-five-year-old man left his favorite restaurant and headed for his parked car. (more…)

Here is a feast of Christmas writings. Enjoy. (more…)

Is not strained.

One afternoon twenty-odd years ago, a strange paranoid mood was upon me. (more…)

Who may not necessarily be related.     (more…)

For failing to commit a dangerous patient.

Okay, I understand that issues of professional responsibility and the rights of the mentally ill can be complex. But this is what boggled my mind:    (more…)

Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.

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“With what?”

The heartwarming reimagining.     (more…)

Are best kept realistic.     (more…)