My daughter was visiting, and it had been good, after a rough start. She’d been in an accident just a short distance from our house. No injuries, but her car was damaged. Fortunately, it can be repaired, and her insurance company is on the job of getting it back in operation. But, no, the problem …
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Jun 25 2022
What 6 Cents Of Every Dollar Looks Like
Take someone like me, who gets around $900 (gross) Social Security each month. If we shaved off 6 cents for every dollar spent, I would receive $5.40 less. Every month, meaning that, over the course of a year, I would receive just a smidge under $65 less. Correction: that number should be $54. 00. I …
Jun 25 2022
What the News is Ignoring
Pretty much everything. If you’re looking for breaking stories, you’re wasting your time watching the well-paid establishment. Nice racket. Collect Big Bucks for parroting Dem press releases and talking points. Interview with a gentle touch tired old Dems, from their flunkies, to long-out-of-office has-beens and never-weres, and – occasionally – get a carefully edited interview …
Jun 24 2022
The Dobbs Decision
Late in coming, but welcome – I wrote about it (and other related topics) here.
Jun 18 2022
My Health, Post-Covid
I’m not fully recovered. Still have diminished sense of smell, still easily tired (I nap a lot), and haven’t been able to fully resume my walking regime. So, overall, maybe 75% better. I DID, as it happens, have the original 2-shot Moderna injections, in April 2021. I wasn’t forced by work, but by relentless nagging …
Jun 17 2022
Let’s Transform Labor Day
And, in the process, honor those laborers who have specialized knowledge that is worth something in the labor market. Now, this story is one that points out the special value to America of some very highly qualified craftsmen. But, many types of knowledge need to be honored: Those that learned how to do their job …
Jun 17 2022
Nixon’s Revenge
I’d been a hard-core Democrat in in the early 1970’s. At that point, I was working lunches and cocktail hour as a bartender, and had time to watch the Watergate hearings in the afternoon. It’s hard for people today to imagine just how addictive they were. The coverage was everywhere – newspapers (at that point, …
Jun 16 2022
Pearls of expression. — anti-“1619 Project” edition.
The 1619 Project is a more detailed version of the “we built this country” claim, and it is rooted in the same solipsism and indignation that motivates most black political and cultural commentary. Giving blacks credit for America’s achievements is like giving a hospital’s janitors credit for a successful heart transplant. In a sane age, …
Jun 16 2022
Trust the experts.
Last year, the International Energy Agency made headlines by calling for an end to new oil and gas exploration by the end of the year. A few months later, the IEA was calling for more oil.[1] They see far into the future. In the Pearls of expression. category we have: Taking care of the demand …
Jun 14 2022
Illusion and Reality
I’ve been binging on Perception, as how about a professor of neuropsychology who is also a paranoid schizophrenic. Trust me, it’s good. Today’s episode (season 2, episode 2), is one that centers on how unreliable our perceptions are in showing what actually happened, rather than what we perceived. So, how does that relate to 1/6 …
Jun 13 2022
Why the Trendy Thing is Seldom the Right Thing
Let’s take plastic bags, for example. The so-called single use plastic bag (which often isn’t) is LESS disruptive in the environment than many of the alternatives that are pushed by the fervently pro-Green advocates. City Journal has an article about it that neatly skewers the Meant-to-be-Holier-Than-Thou Crowd, and explains, in simple terms, why their arguments …
Jun 11 2022
Reminder of Some Old Tactics
I was reading (OK, I was avoiding housework and other necessary stuff), and I happened to see a few disturbing stories: This one, that referenced a poll commissioned by the SPLC, that found a disturbingly high number of Leftists were in favor of KILLING their ideological enemies. And, this story, that has a Leftist politician …
Jun 08 2022
How rude.
But “rude” does no mean “inaccurate.” The truth is, reserve currency status has nothing to do with “the size and strength” of America’s post-industrial, service-oriented, bubble-driven, third-world-sh**hole economy. Nor does it have anything to do with the alleged safety of US Treasuries” which– next to the dollar– is the biggest Ponzi flim-flam of all time. …
Jun 05 2022
Stop nagging me already
The iPad sends me Apple “news” aimed to keep readers in a soft fact-free bubble of leftist pieties, and I’m too stupid to figure out how to shut it off, so I just ignore it. My browser puts up pretty background pictures but has to add a few words in the middle of the picture, …
Jun 03 2022
The Need to Defeat Those Exploiting Insanity to Achieve Total Power — UPDATED
RESISTANCE PRESERVES LIBERTY AND DEFENDS SANITY IN THE PROCESS. Only then does social cohesion stand a chance of returning, and the advance of civilization with it — real progress and not the regression sought by Progs. • Screams for diverse goals are identified by social engineers. • Owning the means to amplify screams, they persuade …
Jun 01 2022
The Phrase “Just How Stupid Can a Person Get?”
…was a question, not a challenge. The generation of Feminists that dominated the Democratic Party (and GOP Lite) have been both a major embarassment, and a potent argument for taking back Female Suffrage. Those of us who at least ATTEMPT to use reason as a means of making decisions, and take responsibility for our bonehead …
Jun 01 2022
Wellness Update
I added Nyquil (a generic version) to the mix, and Zicam, and – WOW! I slept like a log. When I woke a few minutes ago, I was clear, not coughing, and feeling almost human. Kudos to the companies that make it, the meds really work like it says. What woke me was not my …
May 31 2022
Covid Positive
I tested today, and it confirmed what I had suspected. My son called this morning, asking how I was feeling (I had told him I was sick, and he suggested NyQuil and Mucinex, along with plenty of water. He had been battling Covid the previous week).I teased him that he was just afraid he was …
May 31 2022
The Weather Channel on “climate change.” Beatin’ it like a rented mule.
H/t: Don Imus for the rented mule quip. They never ever quit: 5/31/22 — “Cutting Carbon Dioxide Emissions Alone Won’t Keep Warming in Check, Says Study.” “Carbon dioxide emissions are commonly thought to be what’s driving climate change and while they are the most widespread there are other pollutants doing just as much damage.” 5/31/22 …
May 30 2022
Hostility and betrayal at every turn.
Europeans could have cheaper energy, both for heating and driving, but their leaders won’t allow that. They decided that energy prices will be high, very high; so you’ll feel every degree of Centigrade/Fahrenheit in your pocket. Putin stated the Europeans miscalculated when they decided to abandon traditional fuels. Perhaps he said so out of kindness, …
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