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
“The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is a Wake-Up Call for Sexism in Tech” (NYT, 9/15/2021) is a delightful intersection between two of the greatest gifts to this weblog, i.e., Elizabeth Holmes … | Continue reading
Apple News thought I would love “Singing songs of praise for our non-binary family” (The Sunday Times (not one of the tabloids!)) and the robot overlords were certainly correct. From th… | Continue reading
Coronapanic in the U.S. has enabled humans and dogs to share more experiences. #CovidBringsUsCloser From Palm Beach Gardens, Florida: (“Dogs are required to be vaccinated and display current … | Continue reading
“Why Does No One Ever Talk About Sweden Anymore?” (substack, 9/16/2021) has some interesting charts, all adjusted for population size. The virtuous and vaccinated Israelis are being mow… | Continue reading
“The Automatic Digital Computer as an Aid in Medical Diagnosis” (1959, Crumb and Rupe) is an interesting example of hope versus reality. Computers will turn medicine into a science and … | Continue reading
We accept asylum-seekers because it is our moral duty, or so we are informed. Yet, as a practical matter, most of the people who can request asylum are those who are physically tough enough to trav… | Continue reading
A friend who works at Mass General Brigham, the largest non-government employer in Maskachusetts, was told that he/she/ze/they (to protect this person’s identify, I won’t specify gender… | Continue reading
Lockdowns and school closures were advertised as being for the protection of children (as are the current measures limiting kids’ activities). How did Americans do in terms of protecting chil… | Continue reading
We wanted to get a Ring camera for our apartment in Florida. The crime rate in this neighborhood is low, but we have our golden retriever to protect! How worried about crime are Americans? The Ring… | Continue reading
Photos below of a church in Bethesda, Maryland, one of the nation’s wealthiest neighborhoods (thank you, Big Government!). We learn the preferred pronouns of the minister. Also that Kara Scro… | Continue reading
Dr. Joe Biden, M.D., Ph.D., has read all of the papers and looked at the data and made a science-informed decision to order anyone who wants to keep working in a Medicare/Medicaid-funded health car… | Continue reading
Messages from a suburban Massachusetts friend to a group chat: Philip, you were right to move out of hereI just got into my daughter’s phone to read what she and her friends are talking about… | Continue reading
When friends who don’t follow #Science (most have MDs and/or PhDs) ask why U.S. state governors (except for the infidels in South Dakota and Florida) have generally ordered lockdowns, masks, … | Continue reading
I’m wondering if we should expect a massive increase in the number of Americans who transition to the disability lifestyle during the Biden administration. Let’s consider today’s … | Continue reading
Electric cars don’t need a cooling airflow from the front, thus rendering grilles superfluous. The Tesla 3 has a flat nose and a slab where you’d expect the grille: Some competitors have figu… | Continue reading
“UN Afghanistan donor conference raises $1 billion with crisis looming” (DW): The UN says humanitarian aid money would go to maintain medical services, the water supply and sanitation f… | Continue reading
As readers may have noticed, I’m a contrarian when it comes to COVID-19 (along with the 60,000 physicians and PhDs who’ve signed the Great Barrington Declaration). To me, the untested &… | Continue reading
“Hyundai Ioniq 5 vs Q4 e-Tron vs Polestar 2 vs Model 3 group test (2021) review” (Car, an English magazine) says that the Hyundai is huge and maybe better for carrying adults in the bac… | Continue reading
Mostly-Democrat Palm Beach County was one of the local governments ready to fight the governor’s “no mask orders in schools” order (a.k.a. “parental choice order”) wit… | Continue reading
Before departing from Maskachusetts last month in the Cirrus SR20 (ferry trip to her new home in the Florida Free State), I mentioned to a woman in the old neighborhood that I’d be visiting a… | Continue reading
Some 9/11 reflections… U.S. military spending in 2000 was $320 billion. That’s about $520 billion in today’s mini-dollars. The 2021 military spend is about $700 billion (35 percen… | Continue reading