Dems like Bernie: A headline this morning noted that Dems are warming up to the idea of Bernie Sanders. For some reason, this seems amusing, as if this is really a plot in a comedy movie. Not saying it’s impossible, but it strikes me as odd. Bernie went from college radical and full-time protestor to […]
Jobspocalypse and Even Greater Calamities
The robot Jobspocalypse is now on. I read today that MGM in Vegas is replacing thousandsof workers with robots. Within two years, fast food will have a significant robot presence; within five, I predict half or more will go to robots. Hotel concierge, bank tellers, pizza and a lot of other front door delivery, low level […]
Opinion 2/28/19
Small thoughts Cohen: Supposedly, Cohen had his last of three days in front of Congress today. What a change from the past week! In the various news feeds/aggregators that I review, up until yesterday, Cohen was regarded like Alexander the Great riding in on his elephant to claim his slaying of Trump. Then, on Drudge, […]
Opinion 2/20/19
Things that are bugging me Press Freedom: Your major tech companies are all biting at the bit to control your mind via news. Microsoft is now providing censored news. Facebook and Google have been selecting and filtering news for you for some time. Apple is making more inroads into their control of news; “services”. Of […]
Opinion 1/23/19
Back so soon… News items that speak an unusual turn of events: This is a follow up on my ‘Opinion 1/20/19’. Those current events together comprise an unusual change of tide, particularly the sharp turn toward in-our-face socialism. In that context, two more events take on meaning greater than the sum of its parts The […]
Opinion 1/20/19
The government shutdown: All reasonable people ask “why?”. The hard right and left are hunkered in. While I see the wall as a 19thcentury response to a 21stcentury problem, I see the arguments of both sides. For Trump, as much as he claims that the shutdown is about the wall, it’s not. Trump is the […]