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We’ve been having strange weather this year. A couple of heat waves down in the South, the rash of tornadoes in the Midwest, including a long track tornado on December 10-11, and an ongoing drought in the West that provided the fuel for a damaging fire in Boulder, Colorado. Tomorrow is supposed to be another…
“…despite lip-service to the contrary, the long-term vision that values require is not rewarded. US corporate governance norms are based on the shareholder value model, which enshrines maximizing shareholder profits as a company’s raison d’être.” “The problem with corporate “values””, Vox, Anna Held, September 21, 2021. The Vox article, “The problem with corporate “values” ”,…
I can’t believe it – almost a whole year has gone by. Tomorrow is Christmas so I will keep this post as short as possible, but I did say two days ago that I wanted to show the coronavirus trends in the world. But first, the news has been reported that airlines are cancelling flights…
Thank you, Bill O’Reilly and Trump, for saying what needs to be said: they got vaccinated and also received the booster shots. Yesterday, I did a post describing how the data shows extreme surges happening in the US. At the end, I wanted to add more to the post, but I couldn’t remember what I…
I stayed up late, regretfully, Friday night following the progress of a storm tracker, little knowing that I was watching a historic December event. On Friday evening after I did my usual data gathering, I switched to YouTube to see if there was any weather news and up popped up was a live video by…
This post will be different than normal but it is something I’ve been interested in since high school when I first learned about WWII. When I learned about the Nazis and their effort to exterminate the Jews, I was horrified. How can an entire nation descend into such atrocity? What propelled them to do this?…