It’s really becoming surreal in the US to have these left wing groups totally incapable of prevailing in any substantive debate. Their only solution is to change the rules or extinguish the voices of whomever they designate as the “enemy”. The
Category: Business
Do US Tech Companies Have Too Much Influence?
If you want to review business and political fireworks that will become front-page news, then take a look at the major US-based technology companies: Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter. These six behemoths control the vast majority of information flow,
Does AI Mean ‘Augmented Intelligence’?
Update Here is article in IEEE Spectrum magazine (web site) that supports the position of this posting by exclaiming “Stop Calling Everything AI”: Artificial-intelligence systems are nowhere near advanced enough to replace humans in many tasks involving reasoning, real-world knowledge,
Competing Election Fraud Headlines
As noted in a previous posting, there appear to be reams of circumstantial evidence about large-scale fraud in the 2020 presidential election. At this point, it is unknown if there is the proverbial “smoking gun” that would stand-up in a
Links Between Liberalism and Capitalism
I originally watched the landmark Milton Friedman series, “Free to Choose“, years ago when my sons were just becoming exposed to macroeconomics. On the recent 40th anniversary of the show, the original producer had some interesting comments about how Friedman’s
Harvesting Ohio Watermelons
While Ohio has a relatively short growing season for watermelon, I decided to grow a few this year (these plants also like to use up a lot of garden real estate). It’s now October and time to harvest some of
Politicians and Wealth
I’m sure that many of us wonder how politicians become so wealthy when “sacrificing” to become stewards of the country… To be reasonable, a salary of $174,000 a year as a US congressman is nothing to sneeze at. However, it’s
The Politics of Woke Corporations
It is interesting how many US corporations are blindly embracing Black Lies Matter and Antifactual, while at the same time ignoring very real violations of human rights in other parts of the world. A deeper dive into the underlying motivations
Drag Racing at Kil-Kare
I was on my 40-mile bicycle ride this morning, which took us right past Kil-Kare Motor Speedway. This raceway is located approximately 10 miles east of Dayton. The place was packed, and of course the drag racers were loud, so
Pravda and New York Times
I get a kick out of people that consider the New York Times to be the “the paper of record” for news around the world. The NYT ably represents everything that is wrong with large corporations and journalism. In a