House Rules
The Accident
Nowhere else on earth has the thirty-year fixed mortgage. It isn't a market product. It's a 1933 emergency measure nobody repealed, and it's still holding up the roof.
Geoff Anderson
Product Manager (28 years & Counting), dog rescue volunteer, guitar player, tech junkie.
The Bowler, the Leather, and the Long Goodbye
M. Appeal: How Diana Rigg Invented the Modern Action Hero and Nobody Bothered to Pay Her for It
Before Emma Peel, television heroines waited to be rescued. After her, the ones who couldn't throw a punch were the boring ones. Also, the BBC paid her less than the cameraman. Of course they did.
August 15, 2026 - Week in Review
I am still on a hiatus from the dark place, where my digging in on the Civil Rights era kept leading me to worse and worse topics, people, and governments. That shit sucks. And all this "American Exceptionalism" mumbo jumbo requires that you ignore a lot of really
foundation
The Oxidizer
Trump didn't blow up the Republican Party. He removed the rate limit. We're living with the consequences
Political Musing
The Numbers Don't Say That
White men fell from thirty percent of American medical students to nineteen. A Princeton professor calls that proof of anti-white discrimination. It is mostly women applying to medical school, and no repeal reverses that.
Tech
One Laser ...
The 1960 hierarchy was written down and voted on. Everything that did the real sorting afterward had no author.
movies
Down Eros, Up Mars (Ben Hur, 1959)
What Ben-Hur smuggled, what it built, and why $400 million wouldn't buy it back
Political Musing
The Doctrine Was Never the Mechanism
Brendan Carr didn't need the Fairness Doctrine. He needed a merger.
House Rules
Are You a Communist, or Can You Afford a Burrito?
Nobody was arguing about food. Chipotle is a price index, the complaint was about land, and the reply — eat ramen, and are you a communist — is a slogan from a postwar sales campaign for the thing that's now unavailable.
Geoff's Musical Musings
The Lunchbox from Hell: How Solid-State Learned to Growl
The Lunchbox from Hell. My first quality amp, and fond memories indeed.
Political Musing
Domestic "Events"
Mike Johnson has spent his entire career legislating what happens inside your marriage. He has finally located the one bedroom he will not enter.
August 8, 2026 - The Week in Review
Life was pretty busy this week, and my time to obsess over making certain I had a queue of posts lined up was curtailed. As I posted on Monday, the recent stretch I have covered on the Civil Rights era (the lead up to it, and the bat-shit insanity