Month: April 2026

Last night I attended a Passover Seder at the house of a friend. After the person running the Seder talked about how grateful we are to have our freedom, she asked whether anyone wanted to add any thoughts.

One older man spoke up: “I hope the people of Iran will be able to be free from the oppression of their government.” The fact that he picked that particular example provided me with a strong hint about who he had voted for in 2024.

I found myself wondering whether the people who say things like that ever think about other places. What about North Korea, or Eritrea, or Syria, or Myanmar, or Turkmenistan, or Yemen, or South Sudan, or Belarus, or Somalia, or Libya, or Nigeria, or Tajikistan, or Zimbabwe, or Chechnya?

Compassion is good. But virtue signaling for the purpose of political posturing? Not so much.

Apple Computer Incorporated turns 50 years old today. All things considered, the company has been doing pretty well for itself in its first half century of life.

In fact, I’m typing this on an Apple computer, and it has been many years since I’ve wanted to use any other kind of computer. That right there tells me something.