Todd Neff's Blog

Trump clearly wants a third presidential term. Never mind the 22nd Amendment. It’s just ink on paper. And why not? I mean, he’s totally crushing it these first couple of months in his second term. Global alliances fostered over eight decades are stronger than ever. Our immediate neighbors to the north and south are loving […]

Three years ago, I wrote this post about my experience at UCLA Bruin Family Weekend. I have done this three times now, this year with a second Bruin daughter. It’s time for an update, ideally one helpful to future UCLA Bruin Family Weekend visitors. First, I can be of no help to those whose child […]

So I hear you’re voting for Trump. No, that’s a good idea. If you want to stop immigrants from taking all our jobs because you’re dying to work in a slaughterhouse or atop a roof, no question, Trump’s the guy. If you’re from an hollowed-out somewhere, absolutely vote for a man who rails against industrial […]

My daughter Maya was accepted to UT Austin. Despite eBaying a lot of University of Michigan garb (and wearing my old Michigan Soccer schwag), and despite the small “go blue” sticker on her car, and despite her deep distaste for Texas politics, she wanted to check out UT over the first few days of her […]

The caption of this New York Times story, found on its homepage today, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2024, caught my eye. Not to pick on Jan Altena, a 69-year-old grandfather from Orange City, Iowa — he’s entitled to his opinions. But it’s important to distinguish “he’s got principles” with “he’s principled.” Donald Trump certainly has principles. […]

I’ve been reading up on artificial intelligence – Time Magazine’s recent “100 Most Influential People in AI” and the Atlantic’s excellent piece on Open AI CEO Sam Altman among the many. My book, “The Laser That’s Changing the World,” is apparently among the 183,000 pirated books being used to train Meta, Bloomberg, and other AI […]

Given today's news about Trump's classified docs case, I figured I'd share my Classified Presidential Issue Poll from 2020.

My daughter has said, without irony, that she thinks she’s going to get shot at school. Two faculty just did, and so did Luis Garcia just last month.

Having bought a set of Nitto tires, I thought I would share some positives and negatives about them. Positives: They are black. They are round. Negatives: They wear out as if made of some combination of vulcanized rubber and powdered sugar, leading you to return to Big-O Tires over on Colfax Ave. with the sales […]

Most interesting was the oft-repeated “1,000% match.”