Tag: States

The country is split right down the middle. Biden and the Democrats are hoping that convicting Trump for the events of January 6, 2020, will discredit him in the eyes of Americans. It doesn’t look like this is working. Trump is being very smart. His political instincts are very sure. He ...

Two languages, two different cultures, and two different ways of life. My life in Bangalore was perfect. I was at home there, with my kith and kin, speaking a language I have known all my life, practicing customs that were common to all my relatives there. Then I got married and shifted further s...

A poem from my upcoming book FRACTURED PERCEPTIONS. My states of pining are a continuation with no rest stops – they flow, they grow, they sow rains where the clouds of the mind have made their home. And mine is the sunshine on a dry winter morning, when the ice pudd...

State in Jetpack Compose is something we deal with about 90% of the time in our projects. So, mastering all the tricks about it will certainly help you create better apps. All of us know that a MutableState is an interface that holds a value which can be changed, simple as that. This object is ea...

Ever wondered what it’s like to finally ditch your car? Let your hair down as the city breeze blows by. Get soaked when you have to walk to the gym in the rain? I did it in Houston and learned quite a lot about what we could improve in the Bayou City. The TLDR version of that experie...

I’ve been theorizing for a while now that the United States of America is never going to be united again. I feel that a name change and some logistics may be in order. The Divided States of America seems more accurate and realistic here in 2024. It’s sad to think of your country as be...

You didn’t want to know anything more about Matt Walsh’s sophomoric prank masquerading as a documentary,¹ What is a Woman? But I read the book² by the same title over the holiday break and, as a transgender woman, I thought this might be as good a time as any to have ...

Wyoming is the only jurisdiction in the United States that authorizes the death penalty but isn’t equipped with an actual execution chamber. The only execution there was carried out in 1992 in what prison officials reported as a transformed holding cell. The Department of Corrections has state...

The presence of legitimate competition in business is one of the hallmarks of a healthy economy. Competition is needed in sports to make games interesting and keep fans invested. It’s needed in various other businesses so that customers can “vote with their wallet” by going with th...

Congress enjoys one of the worst approval ratings in America, hovering between 10–15% in any given year. Yet, again and again, incumbents sail through reelection with huge margins of victory. In 2016, only eight incumbents out of the 435 up for reelection lost their seats. And many won with en...

NOTE: If you want to play around with an electoral college map to see what kinds of electoral vote combinations you can make, visit https://www.270towin.com/ to make your own map. Anyone who has watched any coverage of a presidential election has more than likely heard of the concepts o...

The Supreme Court seems to want States to experiment and adopt different rules on any number of matters. Maryland and other deep Blue States could experiment by drastically restricting the number of guns owned in the State and carried outside the home. Although we don’t have proof of what effe...

Over the weekend, a bipartisan group of senators unveiled a plan for curbing illegal immigration. It was the kind of compromise that Congress used to manufacture back in the old days — before Mitch McConnell got Republicans hooked on “crack.” The crack I refer to is not the pebb...

Recent anti-immigrant proposals in various states across the country directed at non-white migrants reek of the tradition of racism behind arguments for states’ rights. Originally brought to bear prior to, during, and after the Civil War, the argument has shifted from protecting slavery to opp...

States of Matter — Solids Properties: Solids have a definite shape and volume. They are rigid and resist deformation. The particles (atoms or molecules) in solids are tightly packed and held together by strong intermolecular forces. These forces restrict the movement of the particles, ...

I. Alcohol & Wine Back when I would get schlostered in college, I would say I drank because it accommodated “cool experiences.” The boldness and vigor that alcohol infused me with invariably led to a more hardcore engagement with life. Most simply: Wild stuff would happen. I&rs...

Each year, the President of the United States delivers a constitutionally required “State of the Union” address to Congress. These days, it’s a staged television event wherein the President lays out their priorities and agenda, announces bold new initiatives, and tries to bolster p...

Back when I would get schlostered in college, I would say I drank because it accommodated “cool experiences.” The boldness and vigor that alcohol infused me with invariably led to a more hardcore engagement with life. Most simply: Wild stuff would happen. I’d be audacious enough...