Judith Durham: July 3, 1943 - August 5, 2022.
This, 2017, must have been a very, very bittersweet moment for all.
Only 79 years old.
Friday, October 7, 2022
Breaking -- Rivian -- Really Breaking -- October 7, 2022
Can you imagine if the headline ran: "GM recalling all of its vehicles"?
In my daily bike rides of about ten miles, I see, for every 100 vehicles (pickups and cars):
- two Teslas (we are ground zero for Tesla in this area)
- eight Porsches
- twenty Mercedes
- everything else
I saw my first Rivian "in the wild this week." A mom was picking up her child from daycare. Yeah, this is a high-rent neighborhood. The Rivian looked awesome but for $100,000, it should. Too bad it's being recalled. Hopefully, they got home safely.
It Looks Like Flu Season Is Arriving Early This Year -- October 7, 2022
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Breathless
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus, David Quammen, 2022.
Read the first chapter.
Puts things into perspective.
Downright scary.
Hindsight is 20/20. In real time, absolutely scary.
Very likely decisions made in 2003 (President Bush II) connect with outbreak in 2019/2020. What was Tony Fauci doing in 2003?
The Florida surgeon general is certainly doing a disservice for his/her 70+ population. I'm not impressed.
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Finally Found The Cause
Thirty or forty years ago there were many stories of healthy male athletes in their teens and twenties -- apparently healthy -- collapsing on the field and dying without explanation. These stories made the news even without help of social media, the internet, and high school graduates who had become experts in virology.
Finally, we now know: the mRNA vaccines for Covid-19.
With Gasoline At $8 Per Gallon In California, How In The World Did Biden Get Us Into A Fight With OPEC+? October 7, 2022
This is not the big story, but it is part of the big story.
The big story: how in the world did Biden get us (US) into a fight with Saudi Arabia?
Several months ago I mentioned that there were two "wings" in the West Wing:
- the idealists: the far left, Bernie Sanders / John Kerry liberals, green wing; and,
- the pragmatists: the less far left, liberal, political, pragmatic wing.
The idealists don't care about politics, winning elections; they will leave that up to the other, pragmatic, political wing.
The two wings are running rings around the president. He doesn't have time for the far left liberals so they are setting the agenda. He's only interested in politics, winning the mid-terms.
Unfortunately, while listening to the political wing which led to the SPR release, the far left wing set him up for failure, setting the stage for a fight with OPEC (which the US cannot win).
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