From “Tesla Is Being Overtaken” (Seeking Alpha, written by a guy who is short TSLA), electric car registrations in Norway: YTD, there have been 51,115 EV registrations in Norway, and Te… | Continue reading
“Elon Musk says he won’t take coronavirus vaccine, calls Bill Gates a ‘knucklehead’” (New York Post) would warm the heart of any Swedish MD/PhD: SpaceX founder Elon Musk stirred the pot… | Continue reading
The folks who are the most irredeemably Republican are small business owners. The folks who embrace the new Democratic Socialism and the general concept of bigger government are a mixture, but one … | Continue reading
Workers older than 40 are inferior, according to the Federal government, which is why employers need to be bludgeoned into hiring them. From the EEOC: Age discrimination involves treating an applic… | Continue reading
… because he would have paid all of his taxes via a land value tax. My Facebook feed is alive with people complaining that Trump hasn’t paid sufficient taxes over the past decades for w… | Continue reading
“Dynamic Change of COVID-19 Seroprevalence among Asymptomatic Population in Tokyo during the Second Wave” (medRxiv): Objective: To assess changes in COVID-19 seroprevalence among asympt… | Continue reading
From the scientists at IHME: By the end of December, 200 Swedes will be dying every day from coronaplague, unless they see the light and convert to the Church of Shutdown and don the hijab. The cur… | Continue reading
From the scholarly journal Vogue, “May Every Woman Find Her Marty Ginsburg”: As he became a tax attorney and Ruth pursued advocacy work at the ACLU and professorships, he famously took … | Continue reading
“LONG-CONCEALED RECORDS SHOW TRUMP’S CHRONIC LOSSES AND YEARS OF TAX AVOIDANCE” (NYT): The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing … | Continue reading
“Error and Fraud at Issue as Absentee Voting Rises” (New York Times, October 6, 2012): While fraud in voting by mail is far less common than innocent errors, it is vastly more prevalent… | Continue reading
“Unmarried Ontario couple had no children and no house but man must still pay support, appeal court rules” (National Post): Under Ontario law, an unmarried couple are considered common-… | Continue reading
In case your local school is mostly shut down and you want to make sure that your kids get the essentials, from the front of a house in the Boston suburbs… (the neighborhood welcomes People o… | Continue reading
The Volkswagen ID.4 was unveiled today. The base price is $40,000. After middle-class taxpayers work a few extra months to subsidize the rich with a $7,500 tax credit, for which Teslas are no longe… | Continue reading
In the same vein as Time to love smokers again? … “Paris Musée d’Orsay sorry for barring visitor in low-cut dress” (BBC): Temperatures reached 26C on Tuesday, and Jeanne, an… | Continue reading
“To Conservatives, Barrett Has ‘Perfect Combination’ of Attributes for Supreme Court” (NYT): “Amy Coney Barrett meets Donald Trump’s two main litmus tests: She has made clear she would … | Continue reading
One of our local high schools was supposed to start up on September 16, providing two mornings per week of in-person instruction (total of 6 hours per week of free daycare!) and the rest via Zoom (… | Continue reading
“United Sued for Packing NFL Charters With Young, Blond Crews” (Bloomberg) warms my heart on so many levels, and not simply as a proud former Delta employee. United Airlines Holdings In… | Continue reading
Feel better about your charitable donations to the nonprofit Metropolitan Opera: “The Met Opera Fired James Levine, Citing Sexual Misconduct. He Was Paid $3.5 Million.” (NYT) Excerpts: … | Continue reading
“Some Protests Against Police Brutality Take a More Confrontational Approach” (NYT): The protests are moving into white residential neighborhoods, where activists demand that people cho… | Continue reading
In dealing with coronaplague, Americans have taken a mechanistic view of the human body. Swab an infected human and you’re guaranteed to capture some virus, which will then be amplified by Ka… | Continue reading
The rapper Cardi B interviewed Joe Biden and a full transcript is available from Elle: Cardi B: And also what I want is free Medicare. It’s important to have free [healthcare] because look what is … | Continue reading
One of our most prominent Americans said that she always carries “hot sauce” in her purse, but she never said what brand: Why not capitalize on this with Hillary Clinton Hot Sauce (TM)?… | Continue reading
The overwhelmingly white unionized public school teachers in our nearly all-white, all-Asian suburb have begun appending, in a red font, the following signature text to every email message… L… | Continue reading
American Great Awakenings have tended to require public confessions of sin. Stand up in front of the congregation, admit that you’re a sinner, and let the healing and forgiveness begin. This … | Continue reading
My Facebook feed is alive with people mourning Ruth Bader Ginsburg, often specifically mentioning that she advocated “equality”. Our government-sponsored broadcasting network describes … | Continue reading
She walks by “We Believe… Science is Real” signs every day and yet… I mentioned the need to follow guidance from Dr. Fauci (not last month’s guidance, of course, but t… | Continue reading
“Deal Reached in N.J. for ‘Millionaires Tax’ to Address Fiscal Crisis” (NYT): Gov. Philip D. Murphy, a Democrat, announced a deal with legislative leaders to increase state taxes on inc… | Continue reading
For the coronavirus to become truly American, it needs to learn to say “Thank you for your service”. But when should the virus say this? Suggestion: whenever we wear our masks. Case 1: … | Continue reading
“$1 billion-plus riot damage is most expensive in insurance history” (Axios): The vandalism and looting following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police will c… | Continue reading
Here in Maskachusetts, today is the first day for public schoolteachers to teach. Negotiations with the union resulted in a startup delay of more than two weeks so that teachers could receive train… | Continue reading
The City of Cambridge recently emailed to say “Governor Baker’s COVID-19 Order #50 made certain Phase III adjustments, including extension of outdoor dining provisions and opening of in… | Continue reading
Suppose that President Kamala Harris writes every American who identifies as “Black” (including Rachel Dolezal and, everyone’s new favorite Black American, Jessica Krug) a fat rep… | Continue reading
The home page of the University of Chicago’s Department of English currently contains the following statement: The English department at the University of Chicago believes that Black Lives Ma… | Continue reading
My Facebook feed has been alive for weeks with Californians complaining that the Great Father in Washington does not love them and therefore is not showering them with federal disaster relief cash … | Continue reading
A friend’s son goes to a rich kids’ all-boys private school. She has received at least 50 pages of COVID-19-related material in the past few weeks. A sampling… We are two weeks aw… | Continue reading
“A University Had a Great Coronavirus Plan, but Students Partied On” (NYT) is about how humans did not behave the way that the scientists assumed they would: At the University of Illino… | Continue reading
Strolling by the smokers’ ghetto outside one of our local airport’s FBO’s made me wonder when it will be time to abandon our fanaticism regarding the occasional whiff of tobacco s… | Continue reading
New Yorkers are afraid to let even a handful of spectators into the Arthur Ashe Stadium (capacity 23,771). Someone sitting by him/her/zir/theirself could contract coronavirus. When a group of Ameri… | Continue reading
“Kentucky ‘frat house’ judge kicked off the bench” (New York Post, August 31) is an article that may cause some future readers to wonder how it was ever possible that humans mixed at su… | Continue reading
Suggested reading for 9/11, in which I hope we remember those who ran towards the stricken towers rather than following instinct and running away: Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the Wor… | Continue reading
“Bay Area smoke: To breathe safely, stay inside and don’t count on masks” (Mercury News): Don’t count on masks to help with bad air, experts sayBut people shouldn’t expect much protecti… | Continue reading
Given that the U.S. phone system has been taken over by spammers (unintended consequence of what we expected to be the boon of free unlimited calls), you’d think that the core feature of any … | Continue reading
Stopping alongside one of the elegant restaurants that the Maskachusetts License Raj hasn’t managed to shut down, I was offered a gourmet meal: If there can be a “Travis Scott Meal̶… | Continue reading
Although politicians don’t generally campaign here in Maskachusetts (the outcome of almost every election is predetermined and, in fact, most candidates run unopposed), they do sometimes favo… | Continue reading
One of the latest orders from the Maskachusetts governor is that children will be denied a K-12 education if they don’t submit to a flu vaccination. (In ancient times, of course, this could b… | Continue reading
It looks as though I actually can be wrong about everything. From March 25, When do car makers cut prices? Shouldn’t the car manufacturers be having coronavirus special deals? A car plainly isn’t w… | Continue reading
“The Looming Mechanic Shortage: What If Your Airplane Breaks And There’s No One To Fix It?” (AOPA) is by Mike Busch, who helps a lot of owners of piston-driver airplanes manage maintena… | Continue reading
The elderly folks whom I know that live in “independent living” retirement homes have now been locked down for six months. They can’t socialize, which was their motivation for mov… | Continue reading