From your favorite peanut butter to no furniture, it’s the supply chain stupid In 2020, there was a standard reply to my inability to reach a phone customer support person. I would hear at almost every voicemail, “wait times are longer than usual due to Covid-19.” After a while, I…

The broken supply chain now leads to an exciting twist as consumers fork over more money for delayed products I thought the above photo was a joke, or perhaps the latest story from the Babylon Bee. But no. I copied it from a friend’s Facebook page. So, let me get…

The “ do as I say and not as I do” policy no longer fools the public As the fourth Covid-19 (Delta variant) wave grips the country, the Federal government daily urges everyone to get vaccinated. How then do you explain that there is no policy mandating employees of the…

Two recent “accicental” cases of miscounting highlight why people don’t trust the media or government The Texas Tribune erroneously reported 5800 children were hospitalized in the state the first week of August. It turns out this number was since the start of the pandemic. That’s not a small error. Yesterday…

Atrial fibrillation is a common disorder that one-third of people don’t know they have. If you mention the words “silent killer” to many lay people and doctors, most would answer coronary heart disease (CAD), commonly known as the hardening of the arteries. Indeed CAD can cause heart attacks, sudden cardiac…

All of these examples are sadly true. Add to that extended contracts for stuff like fabric protection on furniture. I bought one of these and went through enough red tape to choke a federal bureaucrat. Ultimately, they shipped me a leather spot-cleaning cloth to remove the stain. Some contracts, however, are unreadable. Have YOU ever read an entire Apple software update agreement?

Kevin Maginnis’ story sounds absurd, but there is more here than click-bait headlines. I have seen this movie before. That’s because, in 2004, Morgan Spurlock starred in and produced a Netflix documentary, “Super Size Me.” The multi-million dollar hit charted Morgan’s 90-day trial of eating three meals daily at McDonald’s. …

Excellent points. The anti-vax crowd cherry-picks information more than an orchard full of fruit harvesters.

As an avowed skeptic and trained medical scientist, I was surprised by how often true psychics saw the future accurately. — As a medical doctor, I was taught repeatedly to question everything. Data is king, and future human events are largely unpredictable. When I met my artist-wife in 2004, she introduced me to psychics. My medical training molded my thinking that these people were hucksters, preying upon the emotionally damaged and…