I am mostly a libertarian but even I see that in our interconnected world we need institutions that prepare for “Black Swan” events. Unfortunately that doesn’t mean just being better...Read More
Every cloud has a silver lining. Here are three positives that might come out of the Coronavirus pandemic. Telemedicine is finally being covered by Medicaire. Medicine comes into the 20th Century. It ...Read More
In December 2019 in China a new flu showed up in Wuhan. At first the government downplayed its dangers finally under pressure they admitted it was an epidemic and started shutting things down as fast ...Read More
“Debt is like prison. It’s easy to get into and hard to get out.” Photo is from the Superstition Mountains SE of Phoenix. The flowers are predominantly Brittle brush....Read More
This ad appeared in on my Postcrossing homepage. It assumes that I know what ITSM is and that I have issues with it. Google Ads apparently doesn’t know as much about me as it thinks. It is both cree...Read More
Carrying a refillable water bottle is an excellent way of virtue signaling that you care about the environment. It should be pointed out that some of that virtue is lost when the bottle comes wrapped ...Read More
Processed food is one of the inventions mentioned in the book Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by Tim Harford. He focuses on the Swanson TV dinner but points out that among the first pr...Read More
We have food in abundance, clean water to drink, remarkably good healthcare, we can venture out at night without fear and we complain about potholes in the roads. It is not the roads that are a proble...Read More
Back in 2003 we had the SARS scare. A few years later we had the Ebola Epidemic. Now we have the threat of the Corona Virus. Put me down as a skeptic. It will be in the headlines for a month or two an...Read More
