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…
I have created this new publication to facilitate Conservative thought and dialog on Medium
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union…” are the first words to the preamble to the US Constitution. I understand that the statement of “a more perfect union”…
The story “snap back” feature of Medium for MacOS makes it incredibly tricky to navigate
I am not an Android, Samsung, or PC person. I was forced to use non-Apple computers and Microsoft operating systems when I worked in healthcare. But at home, and since retiring, I have been a…
You can be pretty sure any time the government gets involved the costs go up. Yes, colleges see this as a blank check. What makes the rise in tuition even more egregious is the fact that most of these institutions have millions and billions in endowments.
Language defines a culture, and culture defines politics; that is why words matter
A funny thing happened while I was working on a story for Medium. I always use Grammarly, a grammar-checking software, and the algorithm didn’t like the word indigent. Grammarly told me that the phrase “impoverished” was a…
I think the point it that when a professor says, writes, or tweets the "wrong" thing, he can actually lose his job. This is where CC becomes dangerous. Kevin Hart was disinvited to host the Oscars in 2018 over a homophobic tweet decades ago. CC is real and it does affect people's lives and their jobs. It is an all too common occurrence.
This is absolutely FALSE. Perhaps true in north Florida and the panhandle but not the rest of the state. I should know. I was born in NY and have lived in Mobile, Alabama. Now that is the deep south. Central and southern Florida is compromised of mostly peopel from other states, primarily the Mid West and the Northeast.
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