Did it really take awarding the Nobel Prize for folks to realize the Rick Berman, GOP governors, and a slew of other naysayers are full of crap? With their claims that changes in the minimum wage causes job losses. Or, the extended unemployment benefits the US offered during the pandemic meant folks wouldn’t work. (What THAT data demonstrated is that they wouldn’t work crummy jobs for dastardly low pay.)
Continue reading More stuff I’ve been telling y’all
Trust me, you are glad I’m not. But, there are policies that need to be effected to keep America strong and great. As opposed to what’s been going on for the past three years to make us weak and disregarded.
Continue reading If I were the President
It always amazes me how many “learned” people fail to comprehend the vast difference between correlation and causation. It becomes more annoying when the true causation factors are glaringly obvious.
Continue reading We are what we eat?
I vividly remember my elementary school years. (Oh, wait. I’m old enough that this meant K-9, although some programs were K-8.) Our schools gave us homework every night, quizzes at least once a week, and tests every two weeks. Nowadays, that is considered bad form. For all the wrong reasons.
Continue reading It’s not the test. It’s how we get there.
Well, here’s another chapter in the sci v. scifi book. I wrote about Organovo and its artificial liver – not to replace a human’s organ, but to test various therapies and drugs. Now, here’s another researcher’s take on that issue.
Continue reading A ‘chip’ off the old block?
As a financial and management consultant, I’ve been confronted with situations that would turn your stomach. (Well, I guarantee you they certainly turned mine!)
Continue reading Diversions. (This is not about my favorite card store!)
I just had a friend spend a weekend. And, I was reminiscing about the Royal Canadian fitness program I employed to get my pre-teen self in shape. (Oh, the friend was from Toronto- that’s why this came up.) I also recalled using a handgrip exerciser as part of that regimen.
I admit it. I love cheese. And, that’s a real problem. Because I can buy a pound of cheese for $4, which is about 1/3 cheaper than buying two 8 oz slabs and 50% cheaper than buying precut cheese (not the slices, which is even still dearer.)
Continue reading Make it hard!
I guess I should have known. But, not until I was 14, did I know this…
Back when I was young (you know, when Ben Franklin was flying his kite), chemical analysis used color testing to discern various components. And, while I had a full chemistry lab, I had stopped doing these kind of tests over the past 8 years. (My chemistry interests were more devoted to dialysis and hydroponics.) So, when I took chemistry in school, I asked the teacher what the various test colors were. Given the nature of who he was, Bob McManus (a great teacher) and who I was (a wise guy), he lied about the colors. And, I got half the unknowns wrong.
About a month ago, I wrote about this new policy that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) was employing in poultry processing plants. I expressed grave concerns about this practice- and now we know even more. And, the situation is worse than I described!