My bet is that the vast majority of my readers shop at Amazon all the time. The first site they think of for shopping for just about anything starts there. Well, you might want to re-think that behavior, once you read the post below. Just FYI, I live in Amazon home-office territory, and I never, …
Continue reading Guest Author: Ricardo on Online retail price-fixing. Illegal, led by Amazon.
You will already be aware that the US and Israel are fighting a war with Iran, to ensure that they do not get nuclear weapons. Before now, we have basically decapitated their leadership and decimated their war-making capacity. But they still have assets that continue to shoot ballistic missiles (at Israel AND Muslim countries in …
Continue reading *About that rescue of a downed pilot inside Iran. America Wins!
I have already told my readers that no part of this blog, except for some AI-generated memes, is made or edited by an AI program. This week, Amazon broadcast that they had laid off 2,600 software engineers, to be replaced totally by AI. Before they left, they were required to fully document everything they did, …
Just recently, a new guy I follow on X did a very enlightening post on Windows 11, and how Microsoft succumbed to the trend toward the bean-counters running the show. Reproduced entirely below, with link to original X post at the bottom. He connects all the dots leading to the short-circuiting of the process of …
This article appears on the Web Site HotAir.com. Its subject is the fact that car-shipping companies are increasingly avoiding ocean shipping of electric vehicles. I have written about this multiple times in the past, emphasizing that electric vehicles, with immense Lithium-ion batteries, are extreme fire hazards. Electrical fires are notoriously difficult to extinguish, and a …
Continue reading Well, well, what do we have here? Another story of the drawbacks of electric cars.
His post from X is copied in its entirety, for those of my readers who are not members of X. But they should be, because X is now the best and most-accurate source of news on the planet. This is not an exaggeration either. As some legacy media used to say, "You heard it here …
Continue reading Guest Author: Dr. Ahmad Malik on what’s in store for the world
The author of this opinion piece is a friend of mine, and my opinions are nearly identical. He says it better than I can. My readers know I am against electric cars, especially when the all-powerful hand of Government mandates that we buy them (this is a total failure so far). Here's what my friend …
Continue reading On Electrified Aviation…From an Aerospace Insider
My friend Bryan G. Stephens is a mental health and management professional in Georgia. The following excellent essay was originally posted on Ricochet.com. Welcome, Bryan! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Morality in society is driven by what is possible. I can use many examples, but I am going to focus on three: Slavery Child Labor Women’s Equality The best …
Continue reading Guest Blogger: Bryan G. Stephens on Technology Driving Moral Development
I celebrated my 70th birthday in April. Just before that, I made it into the Twenty-First Century. Yes, I bought my very first smartphone. Thank you, thank you for all the applause, much appreciated. After a few hiccups in the setup process (don't EVER forget your initial passcode-it's awful trying to reset it), I got …
In about 1975, my first husband and I had returned to Seattle from Minneapolis, and were living on a shoestring. He had found a job as a transformer winder at a company that made industrial transformers, and I, with my MA in psychology, was working as a pricing clerk in a hospital pharmacy. Now, Larry …
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