3. Mountain biking. This one almost seems practical.
2. Climb Mt Everest. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-52165949/man-climbs-height-of-everest-on-his-staircase
Freestyle skiing I’m thinking of starting a series of posts about fun or unusual things people are doing at home while sheltering in place. Of course, I could use some help from you, dear readers. Please post links in the comments. Some sort-of guidelines: they should have been done since the start of the pandemic, […]
Humans are woefully terrible at understanding the impact of exponential growth. Here’s an example. An article in the NY Times looked at CDC data for COVID-19 and found something interesting: “By the time 50 cases were officially confirmed, at least 1,200 people had already started showing symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.” […]
It’s enough to take your breath away. Five years ago as part of its efforts to prepare for a global pandemic (such as the one we are facing now), the Obama administration signed a $13.8 million contract with a Pennsylvania manufacturer owned by Dutch multinational corporation Philips to design and produce “a low-cost, portable, easy-to-use […]
Saturday, my favorite political site Electoral Vote published a question from one of their readers asking about Tara Reade’s accusation of sexual assault against Joe Biden. Here’s the question and their answer: Q: I was wondering if you might comment on the recent failed anti-Biden propaganda push related to sexual assault. Whoever is pushing the […]
Three things happened in the last three days that have made me so angry that I couldn’t write this post until I calmed down a bit. It is now many hours later, so here they are: First, two days ago was this headline: “White House abruptly transfers DHS official amid loyalty purge“. This is a […]
The Senate has passed the Coronavirus Relief Bill, which will likely pass the House by the end of this week. The size of the bill is staggering, at $2.2 trillion dollars. To put that in perspective, total federal spending is already $4.45 trillion, so we are talking about increasing this year’s spending by 50%, to […]
Back when President Obama was trying to enact health care reform in 2009, Sarah Palin created and popularized the term “death panels”. She claimed that the ACA would create panels of bureaucrats who would decide who was “worthy of medical care”. Even though this was a complete fabrication on the part of Palin, it managed […]
The same person who authored the Medium article featured in my original “Read this NOW” post has come out with an update, and this time he had lots of help. The new version has concrete suggestions of good ways to contain the coronavirus outbreak, and has the added benefit of only requiring harsh restrictions for […]
Italy is one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus. In fact, on Thursday they passed China on the number of people who have died from the pandemic — that’s an absolute number, which is pretty scary considering that China has far, far more people than Italy. And the Italians have been under a […]
If you ever wanted to see the rewriting of history going so fast that it might give you whiplash, the Washington Post has put together this video showing Fox News hosts contradicting themselves over the course of a week. Do they really think their viewers are so stupid that they won’t notice? Could they be […]
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Some of you may have noticed a few technical problems on this blog in the last couple of days. I updated the version of PHP and WordPress, and all hell broke loose. I think I have everything working properly again, and the new versions are faster and more secure now. But let me know at […]
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
How long before the market realizes that better advance preparation for epidemics and pandemics would be good for the economy (including the stock market)? Bill Gates, one of the most ruthless businessmen of the modern era, talked about this 5 years ago! UPDATE: The Atlantic has a great article listing all the times our government […]
Have a fun, but safe, St. Patrick’s Day!
