These are some of the most visited and popular postings on this dzsokol.com web site: Is Anything Else Happening in the World Besides COVID? Is Greece the “Canary” for Economic Decline? Does AI Mean “Augmented Intelligence”? American Jewry & Israel
Is Anything Else Happening in the World Besides COVID?
The orderly control of pandemics always starts with quick and reliable testing as well as proactive and selective prevention… Neither of which are being practiced with the response to COVID. It appears that the current state of medical uncertainty (i.e.,
Is it Time to Ban “Assault Knives”?
Update A member of the UK Parliament has been murdered after being repeatedly stabbed by a black Moslem: UK police declared the fatal stabbing of Sir David Amess a terrorist incident as the investigation into the incident continued. The Conservative
Case Study in Leftist Economics
Most people that care about empirical data know how poorly Leftist economies have performed over the past 100 years. As an illustration of ignoring reality, we have a recent “money quote” from the Democrat House Budget Chairman: “It’s not a
Does AI Mean ‘Augmented Intelligence’?
Update These so-called AI programs that these companies have created are just not yet comparable to human intelligence. I’m not telling you that these algorithms of augmented intelligence are worthless. Indeed, in the proper application, deep learning can be very
Who is in Charge at the White House?
Update We American citizens should accept the fact that we are a bunch of schnooks. We accepted the grossly manipulated election and we now accept the presidential cabal of a group of Marxists running our country. It appears that the
Is Greece the “Canary” for Economic Decline?
The continuing saga of economic decline in western democracies… Is Greece the “Canary in the Coal Mine” for how these events unfold? Update Some positive economic news: The Greek economy grew by 16.2 percent in the second quarter of 2021
What Happened to the Dayton JCC?
My siblings and I attended the Dayton Jewish Community Center in Northwest Dayton from the 1960s to the 1990s. We went to the spacious JCC complex for swimming, basketball, racquetball, tennis, and summer camp. My sons also grew up spending
The Climate Change Subterfuge
The notion that giving more money to the federal government to help “save us” from global warming, global cooling, wayward meteors, etc., is a return to the chicanery of the dark ages. As Milton Friedman so astutely observed many years
The American Decline
A great observation from Mark Steyn about US politicians becoming complacent with the decline of America’s standing in the world: “I mean, this is the country everybody wants to come to”: Yeah, because it has no border, so it’s easy.
Cincy Tennis Open 2021
We attended the Western & Southern Open at the tennis center in Mason, Ohio. There were many extra matches today due to the rainouts from yesterday. We watched portions of 4 matches: Dimitrov vs Bublik; Murray vs Hurkacz; Medvedev vs