The police in New England will drive out to hassle kids playing soccer outdoors and arrest the unmasked for disorderly conduct (example). What about their counterparts in the Florida Free State? I … | Continue reading
An immigrant friend has slender athletic children in high school. Their statistical risk from COVID-19 is negligible, possibly smaller than the risk of being injured or dying in a car accident on t… | Continue reading
I don’t know how I missed Outbreak during the first 18 months of 14 days to flatten the curve, but the 1995 movie is fun to watch to see what they got right. The virus in the movie is Ebola, … | Continue reading
Modern Monetary Theory is sometimes cartoonishly summarized as “government can borrow and print unlimited money without negative consequences so long as it issues debt in its own (printable) … | Continue reading
Our new religion, in which God is replaced (“In Fauci We Trust”): Source: A Deplorable immigrant friend (Joe Biden couldn’t bundle him onto one of the Haitian deportation flights,… | Continue reading
MIT’s President weighs in on the situation previously covered here in Corpus Juris Canonici for academic cancellations (MIT). A follower of the Climate Change Alarmism religion held a heretic… | Continue reading
As part of our move to the Florida Free State, I had Everpresent scan a photo album that my mom made in 1966 (she didn’t use acid-free paper so there was no practical way to preserve it other… | Continue reading
The Zillow August 2021-August 22 forecast: Zillow expects home values to grow 11.7% between August 2021 and August 2022, and to end 2021 up 19.9% from December 2020. The September 2021-Sep 22 forec… | Continue reading
I didn’t know who Dave Chappelle was, but the protests against his latest show made me curious. See “Netflix Loses Its Glow as Critics Target Chappelle Special” (NYT), for example… | Continue reading
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