Blues From The Red Side Of Life

Musing over the “news”

August 16, 2026 Gary Boyd coffee muses

A Facebook ad pitching a news aggregator got me thinking about common media grievances. The notion that reading both sides yields objective truth is an illusion—two partisan distortions do not cancel each other out. Nor is wanting ‘just what happened’ realistic in a complex world where we must rely on earned trust and expert context to understand events. Trust is not granted merely because an outlet claims neutrality, and it certainly is not found in an online pitch promising a shortcut to absolute truth. Take those promises with salt.

It’s the second day of school

August 14, 2026 Gary Boyd coffee muses

A quiet, humid porch sit at dawn brings reflections on misleading forecasts and rolling road traffic. Back inside with coffee, sorting through twenty years of website archives reveals how web building has evolved from raw HTML into blocks, while Washington’s divisive political noise and rhetoric have hardly changed at all.

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