Exploratory

We now have approximately one more week of August left and the Atlantic is starting to come alive. Hurricane season is about upon us. There’s a system coming off the coast of Africa and one percolating in the Caribbean. I’m dreading this because the water is soooo warm: it’s around 86 or 87 degrees and…

We all have secrets. Some have skeletons in the closet. Some are harmless, some should be harmless. Some are minor, and some are consequential. And this week, it looks like we’re dealing with a consequential one: one dealing with nuclear and intelligence information. Top secret information. At first, when news about the search warrant being…

I don’t know if the Inflation Reduction Act has made it through the House yet, but if it does, it could be significant in starting to do something about climate change. Up to now, we haven’t done anything, and this Act could start moving the US in hopefully the right direction. Will it reduce inflation…

Boy, the weather has been wicked this past month: Europe suffering from fires, UK breaking temperature records since recording began in the 1880 (I think), the heat waves in the U.S., the fires in California, and those flooding. This week the bad news was centered on Kentucky. The images coming out of Kentucky are horrible….

Every night I check up on the Covid numbers and I read the news to see how the “work from home” (henceforth wfh) wars are going. So first the Covid numbers, but without the chart this time. Right now, I don’t have time even though my original intention was to go over the graphs that…

Right at the beginning of the year, when everyone were making resolutions, Daniel Pink, who apparently got the quote from Neil Gaiman, came with everyone should be making mistakes: “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things,…