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I think most people recognize what is true from what is false. They know when someone is lying, They know when a politician or being hypocritical. They know when they are behaving in a way that goes against their own values or beliefs. They know BS when they hear it. Most people know when The…

I am not the least bit worried about robots “taking over the world”. Send them in. I’ll take one of each: Technology doesn’t scare me. Consider the telephone in my lifetime: Over the next 15 years here’s what happened: Then came car phones, then portable phones, then cell phones, then smart phones. I won’t detail…

I’ve been talking to people on the phone less often over the past year. This includes my closest friends, and my mother, all of whom live hours away in my old city. Nobody has done anything wrong to create this distancing. Some of it is due to the ebbs and flows of friendships. Much of…

When a political cartoonist from a major US newspaper was asked what she would do to address one of the latest problems being caused by Trump, she responded: “It’s not my job to fix the country’s problems”.  She went on to explain that she was not qualified to answer the question and that her goal…

I hate that we, as Americans, have accepted school shootings. Yesterday a lunatic shot into a church that was filled with grade school kids on their first day of school. Two kids were killed, 15 children and 2 senior citizens were shot. This is America. The kids have been trained (like most school kids today)…

More money doesn’t solve all problems*. I’ve been thinking about this in the aftermath of Trump’s DOGE firings, budget cuts, department reorganizations, and funding cancellations. Almost every day, the news includes interviews with someone whose job, department, or program has been impacted. I think of these as “the sob stories”. These reports use hyperbole and…

It’s not trauma – it’s just your past. Sometimes life is hard.

Almost very author, researcher, pundit, analyst and podcaster I listen to who makes are argument about some social ill blames at least part of it on Covid. Enough – it’s time to move on. The Covid pandemic and the world’s response was traumatic and severe. Regardless of whether millions died “from Covid” vs. “with Covid”,…

On a financial podcast today, Josh Brown, a financial analyst was asked by the host how normal investors could buy into privately held companies so they could take advantage of “hot companies” before they IPO’d or were maximally funded by private equity funders so that they had a chance to make a killing like wealthy…

After 400 years of service, Denmark’s state-run postal service, PostNord, is cancelling all letter deliveries at the end of 2025, citing a 90% decline in letter volumes since 2000. In Denmark, bank statements, bills, and correspondence from local authorities are all sent electronically. Public services send communications via a Digital Post app or other platforms….