Readers may recall that I’ve been talking about fighting COVID via dog-style RFID chips in the necks of American humans (see RFID chips in the necks of college students for example and #Scien… | Continue reading
Our series continues … from the mid-October Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine flight in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vinc… | Continue reading
Part of a holiday letter from a friend in the UK: The British are, on the whole, law abiding. The stringent measures [against COVID-19] have worked quite well, and it reminds me of what the British… | Continue reading
A friend of a friend quotes Benito Mussolini (not as much like Hitler as Donald Trump, but perhaps better acquainted with Hitler on a personal level): “Fascism should more appropriately be ca… | Continue reading
The series continues… near the peak of foliage season (mid-October) we decided to fly from Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine, following the shoreline, in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata w… | Continue reading
Now that is it out of the EU, the UK is shutting down low-skill immigration (a boon to the rich; a bane to the working class). If you’ve been feeling like a failure for having a Ph.D. rather … | Continue reading
From a friend with kids in high school in a rich Boston suburb… One of the beautiful things about remote school is that I get, for the first time, to hear what teachers say to taxpayers’… | Continue reading
Who says that the New York Times has lost its ability to be neutral? “A Covid-19 Relief Fund Was Only for Black Residents. Then Came the Lawsuits.”: Oregon earmarked $62 million to expl… | Continue reading
The series continues… near the peak of foliage season (mid-October) we decided to fly from Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine, following the shoreline, in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata w… | Continue reading
After a year of shutdown, the costs of coronapanic finally seem significant to a mansion-dweller: How to explain this apparent 180-degree turn? He ran out of Grey Poupon at his mansion? Related: Yo… | Continue reading
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (not to be confused with Dr. Jill Biden, M.D.), at 1:51 in this 1966 interview: A riot is the language of the unheard. Is it fair to say that Amazon, Apple, Google, and … | Continue reading
The series continues… near the peak of foliage season (mid-October) we decided to fly from Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine, following the shoreline, in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata w… | Continue reading
While gathering at a friend’s house (following the examples of politicians and public health officials, rather than their statements), we were pondering the question of whether it was legal t… | Continue reading
Government action determines the death rate from/with COVID-19. With the right laws, and/or female leadership, we could have a death rate of 0 (see Cambodia), in fact. We’re at the height of … | Continue reading
The series continues… From our Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata used his Nikon D850 to get these images of the rich kids’ liberal arts college, Bowdoin, in Brunswick, Maine, form… | Continue reading
A physicist friend lives in San Francisco and likes to have fun with psychology. Thus, whenever asked for pronouns, which is a common occurrence out there, the physicist’s response is “… | Continue reading
Based on the Georgia Senate races, in which my friends who call themselves “feminist” cheered for the idea of someone identifying as a “woman” losing her important job, it l… | Continue reading
Third of a series… near the peak of foliage season (mid-October) we decided to fly from Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine, following the shoreline, in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was … | Continue reading
One of my instrument flying students recently traveled back to his native Russia and got the Sputnik V vaccine (his wife had it too and the result was two days of fever for her, no significant nega… | Continue reading
The CDC says that multiplying the laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 “cases” by approximately 8 is the best estimate of the actual number of Americans who’ve been infected by the SARS-… | Continue reading
We have been barraged by emails from our kids’ schools during the Christmas vacation week. If we traveled, the public school administrators want to know where and when and they want to see me… | Continue reading
One evergreen fun activity for American Democrats is saying that Republicans are idiots because they purportedly don’t believe in the theory of evolution. (As Democrats generally live in citi… | Continue reading
An email exchange with a friend who was trying to persuade me to see reason (i.e., accept that the obviously correct reaction to COVID-19 is shutdown). If you’re short of time, just check out… | Continue reading
Today is the last day of Kwanzaa. From the History Channel: Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chairman of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach, created Kwanzaa in 1966. …… | Continue reading
The problem with socialism is that it was never given a fair chance or a proper technocratic implementation, e.g., in the Soviet Union. Once President Harris or President AOC appoints properly cred… | Continue reading
One problem with plastic surgery is how to get it done without friends and coworkers noticing. If you show up to work with bandages on your face or new breasts, people can compare to what they reme… | Continue reading
The dispassionate folks at Consumer Reports are not impressed with the Tesla Y. Their recently released road test rates the vehicle a pathetic 50 out of 100 (SUVS that cost half as much rate 89 (Su… | Continue reading
From September 28, Doom by December for the wicked unmasked Swedes: By the end of December, 200 Swedes will be dying every day from coronaplague, unless they see the light and convert to the Church… | Continue reading
I was chatting with a California Mask and Shutdown Karen. Did the recent exponential plague in California, despite its mask rituals and nearly yearlong lockdown, change his views on the efficacy of… | Continue reading
From the CDC: California now has the highest rate of current COVID-19 cases in the U.S., more than double the rate of never-masked, never-shut South Dakota and about 5X the rate in give-the-finger-… | Continue reading
“A Better Way to End the Pandemic Quickly” (MedPage Today): The current plan is to give two doses, 21 days apart for the Pfizer product and 30 days apart for Moderna’s. Alternativ… | Continue reading
From the World Health Organization, right now: ‘Herd immunity’, also known as ‘population immunity’, is a concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected from a certain virus i… | Continue reading
Sweden, in which coronaplague was allowed to rage while the population continued sending children to school, sending adults to work, restaurants, the gym, etc., will have about the same death rate … | Continue reading
From the New England Journal of Medicine, i.e., the folks whom we can trust to give us science-informed advice on masks and vaccines, untainted by a political point of view… “Failed Ass… | Continue reading
A challenging high-contrast night scene for the iPhone 12 Pro Max: I hope that you all appreciate our Christmas lights…. Merry Christmas! (Okay, perhaps I have falsely taken credit for this n… | Continue reading
Our mole in the U.S. health care system, the author of Medical School 2020, reports that his hospital ended up being supplied with way more coronavirus vaccine than needed for patient-facing clinic… | Continue reading
A friend here in Maskachusetts has been fairly careful to avoid COVID-19. He’s supposedly in a “bubble” with three kids, their mom, the outside nanny, and her boyfriend. He’… | Continue reading
As noted in Coronapanic proved Greta Thunberg right, 2020 will go down in history as the year when adults stole the most from children (a whole year of their educational and social life in hopes th… | Continue reading
A reader sent me “THE “EXPERT CONSENSUS” ALSO FAVORED ALCOHOL PROHIBITION” (ZeroHedge): Most people today regard America’s experiment with alcohol prohibition as a national … | Continue reading
Email from the local school: Dear Parents and Caregivers,As we approach the December break, it is a time of year where many families and school staff like to give homemade baked goods and crafts as… | Continue reading
Since April, my Facebook feed has been alive with posts of the form “I did X while social distancing.” These are from people who live in places where social distancing is required by la… | Continue reading
California can legitimately claim to be the Land of Karen. No group of Americans has ever been more active in proclaiming their own superiority on a wide range of political issues. When coronaplagu… | Continue reading
“Effects of Immigration on African-American Employment and Incarceration” (NBER, 2007): For white men, an immigration boost of 10 percent caused their employment rate to fall just 0.7 p… | Continue reading
Aside from killing the very old and frail, COVID-19 has a reputation for targeting the morbidly obese. And, of course, obesity will kill far more Americans than unmitigated COVID-19 ever could have… | Continue reading
What Would Jesus Give this Christmas? Here are my ideas… The GayBCs, a book for 4-8-year-olds. A is for ALLY.A friend who is thereto stand up for youwith strength, love, and care.B is for BI.… | Continue reading
A big selling point for the Democrats is that elite technocratic rule yields superior results to rule by ordinary folks. Democrats #FollowScience by citing experts with credentials while Republican… | Continue reading
Our media and my Facebook feed are both jammed with images of health care workers getting vaccinated against COVID-19 (but a lot of them should be among the roughly one third of Americans who’… | Continue reading
Loyal readers (both of you?) may remember how upset I have been that the U.S. has filled up with flat-screen TVs and most of them sit dark and ugly most of the time. One dream that I’ve had f… | Continue reading