Scott Colon has been declared the winner of the Senate seat in Mississippi. (BTW, whenever I have to type Mississippi, I think back to my second grade days when we used the spelling of that state as a jumping rope jingle.) I love a bit of irony, so I’m going to turn this post over … Continue reading Karma is a bitch
Spice-Crusted Steaks
There’s a reason I’m not a vegetarian. While the bulk of my diet conforms fairly closely to what a typical vegetarian might consume, I do have my mostly daily quota of non-vegetarian foods. Mainly at lunch time. I don’t eat steak very often, probably because I never got into the steak habit, as we never … Continue reading Spice-Crusted Steaks
Unfinished Video
A week or so before the recent election, I saw an article about crypto scams and how the people behind them were pouring lots of money into the election in the hopes of electing candidates who would be sympathetic to those scams, i.e., Republicans. Prominent among the crypto scammers and thus the money pourers were … Continue reading Unfinished Video
The Sewer Connection
A couple years ago my neighbor, well actually both of my neighbors on either side of me, had problems with their sewer lines and had to have them replaced. This was a major operation, and as all the houses on this block were built in 1920, I figured that my day might be coming. I … Continue reading The Sewer Connection
Journaling
A little over ten years ago I decided to try using a journal app to record daily events, and I selected the Day One app, as it allowed me to enter events on my Mac, my iPhone, or my iPad, and then sync them across the devices. It did this flawlessly. In truth I did … Continue reading Journaling
After the Bubble Bursts
Paul Krugman thinks that we may be on the brink of the bursting of the AI bubble: Today’s primer won’t try to settle the hotly (and endlessly) debated question of whether AI really is a bubble, let alone whether this is the moment of truth. What I will focus on, instead, is a conditional question: … Continue reading After the Bubble Bursts
But With You There’s Just Happiness
I’m very late with this, but I’ve been wanting to mention the Loving You: The Untold Sondheim podcast series for some time. It’s a dozen episodes put together by longtime friends of Stephen Sondheim, Martin Milnes and Peter E. Jones. Peter Jones, whom Sondheim always called “PJ”, was the first person that Sondheim fell in … Continue reading But With You There’s Just Happiness
When a Nephew Calls
The other day my nephew texted. Was it OK to call me? It sounded important. I mean, I hadn’t heard from him in years. Many years. To give you an idea of how long it’s been, I still think of Kevin as a teenager, and he’s now in his mid-30s. It seems he was having … Continue reading When a Nephew Calls
What Should They Do?
What Democrats should not do is impeach the Republican president, at least not right off the bat. The Democrats need to show the voters that they can do things that are popular, and if the Republican president vetoes them, then that’s an argument for electing a Democrat when the 2028 election comes around. So what … Continue reading What Should They Do?
Random Thoughts on the Election Results
I was actually hoping that Republican Darline Graham would win the senate seat in South Carolina as I was curious to see exactly how she would vote on various issues. There are good reasons to believe that she was never fully vetted, and that the GOP was getting a pig in a poke. Not that … Continue reading Random Thoughts on the Election Results