Category Archives: Soapbox

Mature minor doctrine – think of the children

Posted on August 10, 2021 by DocDock

Mature Minor Doctrine – think of the children I was young once and despite my bluster here, I was not all that rebellious against my parents. Either that or the could see me coming a mile away and defused the … Continue reading →

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Clear as glass

Posted on July 28, 2021 by DocDock

I don’t always have the most current electronics. It can be a bit of a bummer to see kids on the bus whose cell phone is about 20x nicer than mine. However, my old phone was in a bad way … Continue reading →

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Italygate an impossible proposition

Posted on July 16, 2021 by DocDock

Almost 50 years ago there was the infamous break in at the Watergate hotel. It was a tremendous scandal then and has not lost any seriousness despite having occurred so long ago. Yet this scandal has touched any and all … Continue reading →

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Prognostication – partisan deaths increase Dec 2021

Posted on July 3, 2021 by DocDock

I actually would like to be wrong. I might be – just ask my wife about my track record. Yet this time it is different. In the United States at the moment there is a pretty large political divide, shoot, … Continue reading →

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HP Pavilion getting over old grudges

Posted on June 12, 2021 by DocDock

Quite a few years back I purchased a HP laptop. It was one of their top of the line 17 inch glossy screen and also had four cores. Not much of an achievement now but back then it was the … Continue reading →

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Junk for gold or perhaps gold for junk

Posted on May 31, 2021 by DocDock

If you live in glass houses you shouldn’t throw stones. I have to admit that if you looked in the corner of my room you might find an electronic gadget that no longer works that I am planning on fixing … Continue reading →

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Youtube changed my life

Posted on May 20, 2021 by DocDock

It is really not an overstatement when I say that Youtube did change my life. I wish I could say it was the videos on how to fold your potato chip bag so it could stand up by itself when … Continue reading →

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Fall of the empires

Posted on May 6, 2021 by DocDock

The golden age of Arab science Medicine just like any field had to start form somewhere. Despite all of the medical miracles we see in everyday life there was a golden time of medicine. It occurred between the 8th and … Continue reading →

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The filibuster – American democracy with a small twist

Posted on April 7, 2021 by DocDock

I had intended to do a lot of research into a lesser known device of American democracy – the fillibuster. The fillibuster an action to delay some action by talking. Perhaps the most well known example of this comes not … Continue reading →

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From sugar makes you fat to vaccination beliefs

Posted on March 14, 2021 by DocDock

Well, does sugar really make you fat? This is perhaps too generic of an argument. A much better argument is that eating too many calories for the amount of exercise or movement you do. Sugar on my cereal each day … Continue reading →

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