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What are the liabilities? I remember a CBS article from decades ago. CBS submitted the same tax information to something like nine entities, including the IRS. One or two of them g…

Leaders are those who do what should be done without being told.

The only reason to buy a home is because you want it. It should be a joint decision; what does the wife think? A home is not an investment, it is a liability. The "American dream" …

Greenhouse gardening. It always has stuff coming up. I tried to write that in a humorous manner, but farmers are going broke while their suppliers prosper. A hundred years ago 98% …

On TED talks, Allan Savory promotes intensive rotational grazing as a proven means of reversing desertification. He observes that grass and herbivores and predators co-evolved. If …

Each skull contains a brain subdivided. One part of it counts. One part of it beats the heart. One part of it speaks. One part of it writes. One part of it listens. Communication b…

The the thing that makes us greater than the sum of our parts is our ability to communicate; We feel pain when we read about the earthquake in Haiti because of how words communicat…

Thermal Depolymerization. Will taking carbon out of the atmosphere suffice if we don’t also stop putting carbon into the atmosphere? We need a way of recycling carbon on human time…

It's complicated. The thing to remember is that successful cultures don't throw away elements that work(ed). The same way our genes are 90% to 99% "junk" our cultures are full of a…

I don't agree with all you say but you do write well. And I don't read to be agreed with; I read to learn the errors of my way. There are many many writer groups and they are cheap…

Join the military; Afterward everything will seem cool as long as no one is shooting at you. Apply to DARPA or some other "skunkworks." Take a survival class; Few people know how l…

Moore's Law

How would we know? A friend in hospital with blood clots in both lungs is tested for everything EXCEPT Covid-19. Having eliminated everything they can test for, they shrug their sh…

Ventilators are in short supply. CPAPs can be reprogrammed to be ventilators. Why isn't someone recycling CPAPs? The VA gives me a new one about every three years. I've got three. …

Clean the fans. If they are dirty they are out of balance, inefficient about moving air, and hard on their bearings. There is one fan under the machine and there might be another o…

Humans are the only species that use toilet paper ... although some Vietnam veterans remember monkeys that wipe with their hands (and throw it at intruders). Design a sustainable a…

Hollywood pays male actors more than it pays female actors. Usually. There are exceptions. Some females get equal pay. Asked why, asked how, asked what's makes you special, one act…

Please sue under the Americans with Disabilities Act: Ads trigger my micro-seizures when they move, flash, grow, refresh, change, scroll, evolve, pop-up, shout...