From the in-house economics Nobel-winner at the New York Times (December 2021): Even once the inflation numbers shot up, many economists — myself included — argued that the surge was likely to prov… | Continue reading
In 2017, I wrote High minimum wage is a city’s way to keep out low-skill immigrants Friends on Facebook are discussing “A ‘very credible’ new study on Seattle’s $15 minimum wage has bad news … | Continue reading
At 27 percent, California leads the U.S. in percentage of population who are foreign-born (Wikipedia). Many of these folks migrated from low-income countries where the typical resident is “lo… | Continue reading
A friend lives in a $3 million starter home in the Vail valley. He reports having to carefully pick ski days this season due to crowding on the mountain and long lift lines. “They sold a ton … | Continue reading
To celebrate having gotten through one month of winter, let’s turn our attention to things Russian (since they are the true masters of the cold). Last year, I was invited to a family dinner i… | Continue reading
Joe Biden’s campaign promises were similar to those of Pedro’s (“if you vote for me, all of your wildest dreams will come true”) in Napoleon Dynamite. It has been a year. Ho… | Continue reading
“Rolls-Royce, Bentley, BMW Sales Surge as Cheaper Brands Lag Behind” (WSJ): The most luxurious brands such as Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Porsche and BMW have reported record sales.Bentley so… | Continue reading
I have finished San Fransicko, the book by a self-described lifelong “progressive and Democrat” that I wrote about in Reading list: San Fransicko. Let’s go to the solution first. … | Continue reading
Adding some support to the Vietnam War analogy, today’s New York Times says “Omicron Is in Retreat”, with the implication that any decline in “cases” is due to the eff… | Continue reading
“The C.D.C. concedes that cloth masks do not protect against the virus as effectively as other masks.” (NYT, Friday): When the C.D.C. finally recommended masks for ordinary Americans, i… | Continue reading
Rousseau thought that children were innately innocent, but maybe that is because he never reared any. On the way to the Stuart Boat Show, we stopped at a favorite local restaurant for breakfast. I … | Continue reading
The December issue of MIT’s alumni magazine, Technology Review, arrived. this includes a special sub-magazine that is only about things that happen on the MIT campus or that are done by MIT a… | Continue reading
Today at the Supreme Court: Shurtleff v. Boston. Officials of the Cradle of Liberty were happy to fly the rainbow (Pride) flag and the Islamic-themed flag of Turkey, but a Christian-themed flag was… | Continue reading
Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett is a timely read given for those who are upset that everything has been out of stock for two years. It… | Continue reading
I hope that everyone who works for the government, at least, is enjoying having today off. This is a reminder to check Reinterpreting MLK’s ideas of freedom for the Age of COVID (July 4, 2021). Cit… | Continue reading
In Teaching Information Security there was a discussion of the fact that young people at a Florida state system university rejected the distinction between plural and possessive. A friend sent me t… | Continue reading
Academia is always great for showing those with inferior credentials (i.e., “inferiors”) how to think and behave appropriately. University of Michigan recently fired its president for h… | Continue reading
From “Why Are Non-Muslims Not Allowed Into The Cities Of Mecca And Madinah?” (Inside Saudi): In Islam, the cities of Mecca and Madinah are considered as places of peace, refuge, and san… | Continue reading
We tried to predict what the Supreme Court would do with President Biden’s vaccine mandates on health care workers and on employees of larger companies (see Supreme Court hears arguments on f… | Continue reading
Everyone and his/her/zir/their brother/sister/binary-resister in fully-masked fully-vaccinated Massachusetts is testing positive for a deadly virus (but this in no way diminishes our faith in masks… | Continue reading
Today is the day that Tinder users will have to provide proof of vaccination in order to meet in a Boston restaurant (NPR). From there, they can decide whether it is time to go to the marijuana sto… | Continue reading
Let’s check in to see how things are going at the Center of the Free World (TM). From the mayor of Washington, D.C.: Adults need a photo ID to go more or less anywhere in the city. If we beli… | Continue reading
Here are some photos from a recent excursion to the Silverball Pinball Museum in Delray Beach, Florida. Statistics that folks in NY, MA, and CA are passionate about watching showed that Florida was… | Continue reading
In a triumph of central planning, the test kits that nobody can buy will now be free. “Insurers Will Have to Cover 8 At-Home Virus Tests Per Month” (New York Times, 1/10): The Biden adm… | Continue reading
Happy Lucky 13 day! Given the recent headlines, e.g., “Inflation rises 7% over the past year, highest since 1982” (CNBC), let’s look at “The Fed’s Doomsday Prophet Has a Dir… | Continue reading
Welcome to Covidcratic Logic Lesson #731. From the Followers of Science in California, Order of the Health Officer of the County Of Sonoma C19-35: To slow the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (“C… | Continue reading
One country we haven’t heard much about during the Ominous Omicron Oscillation is Sweden. As noted in Coronascientists are the modern Aristotles? for those who Follow the Science the original… | Continue reading
Because I refused to pollute the sacred temple that is my body with a 947th slice of pizza in one month, while the kids and Senior Management had a strip mall pizza on the way to the Tampa Zoo, I w… | Continue reading
The mRNA vaccines invented in 1987 by Robert Malone and perfected to build immunity against COVID-19 in 2020 have been hailed by many as a great public health success. CNN, 5/26/2021: “The sp… | Continue reading
On July 28, 2021, while we were at Oshkosh, a friend (who is a pre-2020 “scientist” in that he formulates hypotheses and tests them rather than constructing retrospective explanations) … | Continue reading
Nearly two years ago, when public health officials first began talking about “science” in the context of the measures they were taking that would eradicate SARS-CoV-2, the medical schoo… | Continue reading
“Novak Djokovic Can Remain in Australia, Judge Rules” (NYT): Novak Djokovic, the Serbian tennis star, moved one step closer to competing for his record 21st Grand Slam title after an Au… | Continue reading
Based on what Justices said during last week’s hearing regarding the constitutionality of President Biden’s forced vaccination orders, the Supreme Court seemed to be prepared to rule ba… | Continue reading
We’re informed that COVID-19 vaccines prevent nearly all serious consequences from being infected with SARS-CoV-2. COVID-19 is no worse than the common cold for those who have accepted the sa… | Continue reading
Here’s a mid-December 2021 story from the LA Times: Some excerpts from a newspaper that has supporting school closures, mandatory vaccinations, etc.: The skin wants the sun. The skin wants wa… | Continue reading
We are in an abusive relationship with Verizon right now. They gaslight us by showing at least 2 bars of 5G service in our neighborhood (Abacoa; part of Jupiter, Florida) and at the beach, but, in … | Continue reading
A friend back in the Land of Righteousness has a child who tested positive for COVID-19, but whose symptoms were mild. The child with laboratory-confirmed infection decided to go to his/her/zir/the… | Continue reading
Here’s a sign that I was able to contemplate at leisure while waiting to get a license plate (Florida delegates what would a massive DMV bureaucracy to counties). The “Is Service in you… | Continue reading
The Supreme Court recently took up the question of whether elderly elites can order young peasants to get vaccinated against a virus that attacks the elderly. The argument took place in two paralle… | Continue reading
A reader sent me the following Trust in Science page: The Spectator folks track the predictions of Science against actual outcomes. This is enabled by the fact that the UK rejected Science’s … | Continue reading
Last month we visited the Morikami Museum, a building owned by Palm Beach County, notable for its constant efforts to force schoolchildren to wear masks, contrary to orders from the governor, rulin… | Continue reading
From three weeks ago: Why is it still almost impossible to schedule a COVID-19 test? (at least in Maskachusetts) How are things now? Here in the Palm Beach area, using the CVS web site, the earlies… | Continue reading
In What edge does Rivian have in the truck or EV market? (November 2021) I wondered how Rivian could be worth $127 billion, given that Ford will soon be selling electric pickups. As of today, the c… | Continue reading
I stumbled on Closed for Storm in Amazon Prime (it is wedged into a corner of the app behind “Black voices” and “Hispanic & Latino voices” (no “Latinx voices”… | Continue reading
The U.S. Congress is getting back to “work” soon, trying to figure out how to squeeze enough tax revenue from Xbox-oriented Americans to fund all of the government programs that we drea… | Continue reading
Don’t Look Up is a cautionary tale of what could happen if Trump-supporters were a majority in the U.S. It is an update, to some extent of the 2006 film Idiocracy, whose underlying message is… | Continue reading
Our 8-year-old ran out of books to read on our recent excursion around the Florida Free State. Google Maps showed us that the most convenient bookstores between Lakeland and Tampa were in… Br… | Continue reading
“FAA punches a hole in the U.S. economy today” (2017): Today is the day that FAR 135.160 goes into effect. This requires a radar altimeter (“radio altimeter” in the FAA’s parlance or “r… | Continue reading