Porchside Musings.

 When I first joined the Lab, the rules for holding a Q clearance included searching your background for anything that might leave you vulnerable to blackmail. Understandable, since a person might be forced into revealing classified information. Character flaws included illegal drug use, various crimes, and being a homosexual. That last rule had a lot of history to it, notably the story of Alan Turing. A few years later came the phenomena of political correctness sweeping the Lab.  Suddenly I had a number of coworkers that were gay and lesbian. The notion that I had to think a certain way was disturbing. Personally, I accepted gay and lesbian lifestyles as long as no one tried to hit on me and I didn't have promote sexual activity. Which is the same standard I held heterosexual individuals to - keep your preferences in the bedroom, not at work. Toward the end of my career that political correct mentality morphed into a more dark mindset. The Lab, with support from the Dept of ...

 I've been watching as a number of new politicians have taken office in New York City, Portland, and elsewhere.  Calling themselves Democrat Socialists , they have demonstrated some beliefs that place them more in the Marxist circle. Recently a platform statement came out for this so-called Democratic Socialists of America . Reading through it I truly wonder how anyone espousing those beliefs can legitimately earn sufficient votes to win a major office, much less serve as a street-sweeper in a one-horse town? First off, they want to eliminate the US Senate. Then place the Executive Branch and Supreme Court under the remaining US House of Representatives. So much for independent branches of government as well as checks and balances. You might as well rename the House to the Politburo.  The Justice department would prosecute based on political theory, not statute. Court rulings would be subject to the whims of the ruling party. Justice would soon decay to lynch-mobs, ...