2025-09-05

Insurance

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[ TOC: all blog posts ] When I buy an appliance or tool or electronic gizmo, the cashier often asks if I want insurance. I say no. If I'...
2025-08-23

Twits

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[ TOC: all blog posts ] "If I were King for a day."  You may have said, as I have, what you might do if you were king or queen for...
2025-06-03

Efficiency

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[ TOC: all blog posts ] When asked whether it was OK to let low-income Americans die, Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) responded that "we are ...
2025-05-29

Substack

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[ TOC: all blog posts ] I've decided to branch out. I'll be posting new entries on Substack as well as here. Blogger has served me ...
2025-05-24

Corrupt

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[ TOC: all blog posts ] Like many African countries, Liberia has struggled with corruption and the resulting barriers to development. A lon...
2025-05-13

No Balls

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[ TOC: all blog posts ] During World War II, Allied soldiers would sing a song to the tune of Colonel Bogey March to mock leaders of the Na...
2025-05-06

Papal Bully

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[ TOC: all blog posts ] Trump's claim to want to be the next Pope certainly is a joke. A bad joke, but that's to be expected. Trump ...
2025-03-26

Kaos

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[ TOC: all blog posts ] Top members of the Trump administration included Jeff Goldberg in a group text about a military raid in the Middle ...
2025-02-13

Ogle Maps

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[ TOC: all blog posts ] In a surprise announcement, Alphabet Inc. informed the public that they would be renaming one of their corporate hol...
2025-01-31

Art and I

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[ TOC: all blog posts ] A Chromecast backdrop displayed on my TV: a  photograph  by Aravind Ravisankar of a beach and a rock and a sunset. I...