If you’re passionate about #StopAsianHate, you’ll probably want to invest $11.99 in a “Tolerant” wok from IKEA. Photographed October 3, 2021 in Sunrise, Florida: #ProblemSol… | Continue reading
If you want some insurance against future Europe-US travel restrictions, want your children to have the flexibility to study/work/live in the EU, or just want to be like Eric Schmidt (support Biden… | Continue reading
From a barbecue joint in Boynton Beach, Florida: “due to the shortages of commodities within the market such as chicken wings, pork and also beef we must increase the prices from what the men… | Continue reading
The Federal government says that today is the last day of “National Hispanic American Heritage Month”. What did you do to celebrate? Why doesn’t the post headline agree with the g… | Continue reading
During four years of tyranny, anyone who posted a criticism of Donald Trump on Facebook or Twitter was boldly #Resisting. Example from my late friend Mike Hawley (the below was liked and loved 119 … | Continue reading
Florida is not lacking in big box stores and the ones we’ve been in so far have generally been nicer, cleaner, and newer than their counterparts in Maskachusetts (exception: Costco in Palm Be… | Continue reading
Now that we have near-Biden levels of free cash to spend (rent in Florida is cheaper than property tax plus lawn mowing in Maskachusetts and our neighborhood has a lot more to offer, especially for… | Continue reading
“Thousands of Unvaccinated New York City School Employees Placed on Unpaid Leave” (Wall Street Journal, 10/4/2021) describes those who #Resist, but not in a good way: Thousands of New Y… | Continue reading
How did the U.S. end up with double the percentage of children living without two parents compared to a lot of European countries? (link to some data) “Divorce Can Be an Act of Radical Self-L… | Continue reading
From the city that has been the heart of America’s camera repair industry, “LaGuardia Scare Sparked by Woman’s Mistake About Flier’s Phone Videos, Camera: Source” (NBC… | Continue reading
From a Johns Hopkins professor, “Why the Latest Campus Cancellation Is Different” (Atlantic): Following a Twitter outcry, a scientist was stopped from giving a lecture at MIT for reason… | Continue reading
Dr. Jill Biden, M.D., Ph.D.’s colleague Dr. Jeff Goldblum, Ph.D. explains the Butterfly Effect, i.e., that a butterfly flapping its wings in China could change the weather weeks later in the … | Continue reading
Google Calendar informs me, via its “Holidays in United States” calendar, that today is both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day. So… to all readers who celebrate incom… | Continue reading
Last month, Uber was 100 percent devoted to helping Afghan refugees (using $2 million from shareholders and customers rather than executive personal contributions, of course!). See Relative importa… | Continue reading
A group chat in which a friend with a 12,000-square-foot house describes his efforts at updating the home theater with built-in ceiling speakers: friend: My house has built in 5.1 speakers in the c… | Continue reading
From the US Department of HHS: Vaccination of Head Start staff is essential as we work together to build back out of the COVID-19 pandemic and move toward fully in-person services. On September 9, … | Continue reading
“Why It’s Easier to Find Expensive Appliances Than Cheaper Ones” (WSJ): Whirlpool, GM and other companies are prioritizing higher-price products as they try to offset supply-chain snarl… | Continue reading
I haven’t been using Facebook since my father died (see Should one stay off Facebook, Instagram, et al. following the death of a parent?), but I checked in on my birthday last month. HereR… | Continue reading
I did a lot more research after Portuguese stocks or Lisbon real estate for the next five years? (May) and, as part of an EU citizenship project, decided to purchase stocks over in Portugal rather … | Continue reading
A year ago, the CEO of Coinbase paid employees who were the most passionate about social justice and political causes to leave. See “Coinbase is a mission focused company” and also R… | Continue reading
Aristotle is the most relevant ancient philosopher for our age (see Coronascientists are the modern Aristotles?) and, as it happens, is credited with documenting the syllogism. Here’s the Cor… | Continue reading
Today is the official launch of Microsoft’s Windows 11. How’s my $2,500 state-of-the-art-in-2015 PC doing with the new software? Here’s the report from PC Health Check: I thought … | Continue reading
Email last month from the superintendent of schools in a nearly-all-white suburb of Boston: The Superintendent’s Bulletin can be accessed by clicking on the link below: Superin… | Continue reading
After 16 years of rule by Angela Merkel and the Christian Democrats, the government in Germany is changing. I talked to some European bankers and a former hedge fund manager to find out what, if an… | Continue reading
Jesus said “The last shall be first and the first last.” Perhaps he was talking about government workers in Florida and California who swapped jobs? Searching the Web for teaching examp… | Continue reading
Friends and neighbors in Massachusetts who were Shutdown and Mask Karens (i.e., nearly all of my friends and neighbors who weren’t pilots, doctors, or medical school professors!) reported tha… | Continue reading
We hid from the afternoon rain at Magic Kingdom’s Carousel of Progress, which covers technological progress fairly well: Follow an American family over 4 generations of progress and watch tec… | Continue reading
From California, one of the world centers of optimism regarding the power of government, via shutdown and mask orders, to reduce, not merely delay, coronavirus infections: “The number of babi… | Continue reading
From West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s official site: Every Member of Congress has a solemn duty to vote for what they believe is best for the country and the American people, not their par… | Continue reading
It’s October, the month when rich people show up to their South Florida houses (folks without kids in school don’t rush back to catch the 90-degrees-and-humid high temps of August and S… | Continue reading
With tax law and tax rate changes on the horizon, is it time to buy Berkshire Hathaway? Nobody is better connected to the current rulers than loyal Democrat Warren Buffett (he thinks tax rates are … | Continue reading
Fresh from losing a war, we’re in the midst of a transformation of the role and size of government, e.g., “From Cradle to Grave, Democrats Move to Expand Social Safety Net” (nytim… | Continue reading
One of the things that struck me when I first began visiting Central America 30 years ago was the inability of some governments to manage what I had taken for granted in the U.S.: producing enough … | Continue reading
A couple of months ago: Has anyone tried a book scanning service for Kondoization or pre-move preparation? I’ve got the first batch of results from 1DollarScan now and the scanned pages are i… | Continue reading
President Biden has ostentatiously deported, contrary to international law, at least a small percentage of the Haitians who walked across the river in Texas. This has been done in a manner far more… | Continue reading
I am concerned that there hasn’t been enough disagreement here on this blog on religious topics, e.g., whether mask use by the general population reduces or delays coronavirus infection (mask… | Continue reading
Today’s New York Times carries an article saying that COVID-19 is now almost exclusively a disease of Republicans: “Red Covid; Covid’s partisan pattern is growing more extreme.” T… | Continue reading
Folks in the South Florida real estate industry dubbed Andrew Cuomo the “Florida Realtor of the Year” in gratitude for all of the money that they made selling houses to people fleeing N… | Continue reading
Cars have never been in such short supply. Rental cars that I’ve been lucky enough to find, in our inflation-free economy, cost 2X what similar cars at the same locations cost in 2019, e.g., … | Continue reading
Trigger warning: This post includes a description of a 911 call with screaming. Most of the U.S. was at Code Yellow for about 8 years and aviation was at Code Orange under the Homeland Security Adv… | Continue reading
“Chris Cuomo Sexually Harassed Me. I Hope He’ll Use His Power to Make Change.” (New York Times, today): “Now that I think of it … I am ashamed,” read the subject line of a 2005 email Mr… | Continue reading
From CNET, originally a source of information about technology, “Women aren’t the only people who can get pregnant”: Not everyone who gives birth is a mom. Trans, non-binary and i… | Continue reading
What happens when a society that is so organized and detail-oriented that it needs to buy all of its integrated circuits from Taiwan, China, Japan, and Korea (and stop making cars when those countr… | Continue reading
From today’s Wall Street Journal: “Latin American Migration, Once Limited to a Few Countries, Turns Into a Mass Exodus; Haitian standoff in Texas reflects broader mix of nationalities f… | Continue reading
“Why So Many Tennis Players Don’t Want the Covid Vaccine” (NYT, August 30) describes a heretic and a suspected marrano: Third-ranked Stefanos Tsitsipas caused an uproar in his native Gr… | Continue reading
Compared to Maskachusetts or California, one of the remarkable features of life in our corner of Florida (Palm Beach County) is the lack of folks telling others how and what to think. In the Boston… | Continue reading
As part of my teaching efforts this semester, I stumbled on , which then leads to the organization’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion page: “terms like Blacklist, Whitelist, and many ot… | Continue reading
On May 22, 2021, the Biden Administration decided that nobody could be sent back to Haiti (DHS.gov): Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced a new 18-month designation… | Continue reading