Matt & Jen Simerson

Last year, our office bought a document scanner. Unlike every other scanner I had purchased or used, this thing was tiny. Its footprint on a desk is smaller than a piece of paper. It is designed specifically for turning pieces of paper into PDF documents. I had to try it. It scanned both sides of [...]

While living in Texas, one of the few things I admired about the state was their use of the death penalty. One of the most powerful arguments for the death penalty is that ‘the system’ has fail safes in place and ‘no innocent person has ever been executed.’ Texas has shed innocent blood. The man’s fatal [...]

Remember this incident next time I’m in Africa. Wild elephants are not to be trifled with.

Mid-summer, when the economy was sitting in the doldrums, there was a tempest in a teapot regarding the economic stimulus. One side argued that a second stimulus was called for. The other had buyers remorse, wishing we hadn’t done the first one. I argued that we had done enough and the only missing ingredient was [...]