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James Foley, The President, The Washington Post and the WSJ

August 21, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

When reading The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Washington Post’s editorials on President Obama’s speech yesterday about James Foley’s beheading, I was struck by how similar they were. As any regular reader of the two papers will know, while it’s not unheard of for their editorial pages to be in agreement, it’s also not typical. […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: ISIS, Obama, president obama, Terror, Washington Post, WSJ

Washington Ferries and crazy policy solutions

August 6, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

(Originally posted at Sound Politics) A report on KUOW this evening entitled “Why Washington Ferries Are Such A Headache To Replace” provided an excellent service in highlighting some, but not all, of the absurd rules and regulations surrounding this government monopoly. As Carolyn Adolph reported: By law, ferries must be built in the state. The purpose […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: corporate welfare, ferries, monopoly, Puget Sound, Washington

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

July 23, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

The latest conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis is once again resulting in terrible suffering, horrific injuries and casualties on both sides. In previous conflicts, opinion has reflexively and, in my view, unjustifiably tended to favor the Palestinians. This time around, in spite of the usual mob protests in Europe and some of the […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: Hamas, Israel, Palestine, terrorism

Slow cooking for the family

June 22, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

As our first child has gotten older and stopped napping, we’ve gradually moved dinner time earlier and earlier in the evening. And with a newborn in the house, we have our hands full, so I try and find things I can do to help out. I enjoy cooking, but with us eating so early and […]

Filed Under: Daddy Rants Tagged With: crock pot, meals, slow cooker

Always there family shopping lists with OneNote

May 31, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr 2 Comments

(Note that a version of this post was subsequently re-posted on the official Microsoft Office blog here.) While I’ve had OneNote as part of my Microsoft Office suite for years, I was a bit of a late adopter. Until recently I used it almost exclusively at work for taking meeting notes and keeping track of my To Do lists. […]

Filed Under: Daddy Rants Tagged With: family, Microsoft, Office, OneNote, Shopping

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I’m Nicholas, a marketing consultant and dad in Dallas, TX. I like to follow policy debates, chat about parenting and share stories. Read More…

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