Friends have been asking me to explain the recent Robinson R44 autorotation off Miami Beach. The incident, caught on surveillance camera: If it isn’t an emergency and your machine happens to … | Continue reading
The first modern Olympics were in 1896 when the world population was roughly 1.5 billion and only 14 countries were wealthy and organized enough to send teams (241 athletes total). There were two m… | Continue reading
After a beautiful one-hour drive into the countryside, an imposing six-story concrete building rises from the hillside. Locals comment about the Soviet-era architecture. The campus also includes se… | Continue reading
Dumb question of the day… why are fake CDC vaccination cards a marketable item? “Fake Vaccine Card Sales Have Skyrocketed Since Biden Mandate” (Pew): The price of fake COVID-19 va… | Continue reading
After a 45-minute drive, I arrive at 8:30 am for paperwork at the local Veterans Administration (VA) hospital. Unfortunately, due to my short time here, I won’t get access to their electronic… | Continue reading
A friend owns a company that makes equipment for factories. His theory is that the central planners who’ve been printing money overestimated the elasticity of supply and therefore created muc… | Continue reading
Week 2 of inpatient psych. The resident is late for the 8:30 am handoff, so I talk to the night resident. There were two “soft” admissions (people who could have gone home) overnight, w… | Continue reading
At a COVID-safe Super Bowl party, one of the guests was a police officer who lives in our building. She was chatting with a guy who works for a small video production company. He talked about the c… | Continue reading
“FDA-approved Vuity eyedrops could replace your reading glasses” (Today): Just approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Vuity’s new product has been found to take effect in a… | Continue reading
An estate owner in a woodsy New England vacation enclave for the rich writes to his neighbors, who rely on a limited collection of colorful locals for every job that requires physical strength and … | Continue reading
From Wikipedia’s entry on Id, ego and super-ego: The super-ego (German: Über-Ich) reflects the internalization of cultural rules, mainly taught by parents applying their guidance and influenc… | Continue reading
An interesting article by a gymnastics champion-turned-Levi-Strauss executive: My tenure at Levi’s began as an assistant marketing manager in 1999, a few months after my thirtieth birthday. As the … | Continue reading
A senator introduced a bill for consideration by the Maskachusetts State Senate that would impose a 6.25% sales tax on new and used aircraft, currently tax-exempt in MA so as to compete with neighb… | Continue reading
A chapter on diseases of the brain, perfectly timed for Valentine’s Day… (an MIT Economics professor back in the early 1980s told us that romantic love was a mental defect. “You&#… | Continue reading
More Super Bowl questions…. First, in watching TV coverage of the event, did anyone see a spectator wearing a mask? The nearby schoolchildren were recently subjected to an escalation in their… | Continue reading
Happy Valentine’s Day! Let’s talk about love… I shared some photos from a visit to Atlanta in a chat group, including the following: A friend who lives in San Francisco: This is h… | Continue reading
As noted in California Karen hosts a 200,000-person mass gathering (Super Bowl in Los Angeles), the vaccinated will soon be huddled together in California, land of the closed public school and open… | Continue reading
In January, I visited the site of the 2021–2022 Boulder County fires. The section that I visited is directly behind a huge fire station: More shocking than the inequality that AOC and Bernie Sander… | Continue reading
The 6-year-old and I found COVID-19 tests on sale today at CVS in Jupiter, Florida: I placed my order for taxpayer-funded tests (“free”) on January 19, the advertised first day in ̶… | Continue reading
I hope that everyone (except, perhaps, that notorious reprobate Toucan Sam) has been celebrating Black History Month. Some news from Newton, Massachusetts… “… Blackface classroom … | Continue reading
For folks who’ve been beguiled by press releases from Otto Aviation, the Piaggio Avanti is a reminder that most of the great ideas in aerodynamics were implemented in the 1980s. The Piaggio d… | Continue reading
Science, August 2021 edition: Getting COVID-19 (e.g., in Florida) is due to stupidity, irresponsibility, failure to get injected with an emergency use-authorized vaccine, Science-denial, and suppor… | Continue reading
One of the knocks against the mostly-pretty-awesome Vision Jet from Cirrus is high levels of interior noise. The fuselage is composite rather than aluminum and this is typically a recipe for high l… | Continue reading
A paywalled article from the UK Independent is available at MSN: “Tube ‘low risk’ for catching Covid, study finds”. The authors followed people who rode London’s mass transit syst… | Continue reading
“Annual American inflation hit 7.5%: A near 40-year high” (CNN, today): A key measure of inflation climbed to a near-40-year high last month. Economists are hopeful that America will re… | Continue reading
The U.S. is a great place to be on welfare. Except for France, we spend the largest percentage of our GDP on government handouts such as free housing, health care, food, and smartphone (Washington … | Continue reading
Two middle-aged ladies were in front of us at Lion Country Safari: Biden/Harris, Black Lives Matter, and Eat More Kale plus an Imagine there’s no hunger license plate (proceeds to the Florida… | Continue reading
On a recent trip to Denver, I rented a $550/week “full size” car from Hertz and received a 2021 Subaru Outback station wagon. As part of the Great Falling Apart of the U.S. service indu… | Continue reading
The CDC advised that countries force citizens to wear masks and receive injections of experimental-use-authorized vaccines. Let’s have a look at some of the countries that followed the advice… | Continue reading
The news is packed with stories about the Canadian truck drivers protesting against a vaccine order (Wikipedia). Premier Blackface (Justin Trudeau) says that, while Canadians have some right to fre… | Continue reading
Recent discussion involving two residents of of a rich Massachusetts suburb…. From a woman who gets paid to help migrants from South Sudan settle in Massachusetts: Good morning! I can tell yo… | Continue reading
Who watched the Dave Chappelle special on Netflix? was about how I invested one hour to learn about someone identified as an Enemy of the Truth. The latest Enemy of the Truth, a dangerous spreader … | Continue reading
Covid-fighting hero Gavin Newsom promised California voters a single-payer universal health care system in 2018. A majority of Californians agree that health care is a human right. California has a… | Continue reading
“Boosted Americans 97 times less likely to die of virus than unvaccinated” (USA Today, 2/2/2022): As the U.S. inches up to a 64% vaccination rate for the entire population, only 42% of … | Continue reading
An immigrant friend’s comment on news from the CNN executive suite: These are defenders of liberal morality and destroyers of glass ceilings A Google search for “glass ceiling” si… | Continue reading
Friends from Maskachusetts (a.k.a. “Democrats”) were attributing all of the nations’ current woes to Donald Trump. One example that they highlighted was Trump’s reference to… | Continue reading
For readers who demand to know why I continue to pay for a NYT subscription… “Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room” (NYT, today): Ten years ago, psychologists proposed that a wi… | Continue reading
“‘I am deeply sorry for my conduct’: Biden’s top science adviser apologizes to staff” (Politico): [MIT prof] Eric Lander, the president’s top science adviser and a member of his C… | Continue reading
On our return from Denver, we stopped overnight in Buckhead, the rich area of Atlanta that was annexed by the city in 1952 and that soon hopes to vote on seceding into “Buckhead City.” … | Continue reading
Follow-up to The 6-year-old hater… We took the kids to the National Navy SEAL Museum (a mask-free and indoor/outdoor experience, like most Florida experiences). The museum was showing an inte… | Continue reading
There is a high demand for pageantry in our household, but we don’t have a TV, so I signed up for the “ad-free” “Peacock Premium Plus” streaming service and used an iP… | Continue reading
The Cirrus Vision Jet is a great machine, but one thing that it can’t do is go non-stop from South Florida to Denver against a winter headwind. We decided to stop at Flightline KNEW for fuel,… | Continue reading
Excerpts from today’s email from MIT Hillel (Jewish organization on campus): One trend we have seen is students are still craving IRL (in-real-life) interactions and events, even if MIT rules… | Continue reading
The clinic staff throws a party for my last day. One of the secretaries brought in homemade rhubarb turnovers. I express my gratitude and they respond with “We take any excuse to throw a part… | Continue reading
Pictures from the Boulder Book Store. SARS-CoV-2 has achieved much more mindshare in Colorado than in Florida. Boulder and Denver are the centers of concern regarding COVID-19. As you enter the sto… | Continue reading
We start at 7:45 am to read up on the ten patients we’ll see this morning at the clinic. The 37-year-old nurse (from week 25) with a large MCA stroke and amputation after subacute bacte… | Continue reading
Here are some young people at the University of Colorado, January 28, 2022: It didn’t look as though anyone over the age of 25 was in the room (a good thing, considering that most were wearin… | Continue reading
“One Million Deaths: The Hole the Pandemic Made in U.S. Society” (Wall Street Journal, 1/31/2022): Covid-19 has left the same proportion of the population dead—about 0.3%—as did World W… | Continue reading