Children under 5 can carry way more COVID-19 virus than adults, according to a JAMA Pediatrics study. Older children carry it as much as adults. So absolutely, let’s open all the schools. And have few or no guidelines. Nothing could…
Taxes can be confusing. The process can indeed be stressful. Here are some tax thoughts based on my just-completed first year doing taxes at H&R Block. Make sure you withhold enough Some may think it’s very clever to not withhold…
L.A. City Councilmember Jose Huizar has been charged by federal authorities for taking bribes from a Chinese billionaire to facilitate real estate development. This includes cashing in $259,000 in chips at Las Vegas casinos that the billionaire gave him. Huizar…
Oh noes. Mean Twitter fact-checked two tweets by the Orange Toddler, who then had a tantrum. Trump huffed and puffed, then issued a meaningless unenforceable executive order trying to repeal Section 230. However, the presidency does not have the authority…
Green Party ballot access is taking a huge hit this campaign season because it can’t get on state ballots in the normal way, which is by gathering signatures. That’s not going to happen in our stay-at-home COVID-19 world because it…
California is requesting 3.3 GW of battery storage for renewable energy from the utilities, including a ginormous 770 MW online by next summer. This is notable for both the unprecedented size of the projects and for the battery storage being…
Working at home is strange and alien to many in our new quarantine world. I’ve been doing working at home for years and have some suggestions. Don’t stay in your pajamas all day. Wear street clothes. It’ll help your mindset.…
NextEra Energy, the world’s largest producer of solar and wind power, will invest $1 bn in energy storage in 2021. Their plans for renewables are unaffected by COVID-19. They are dropping retail prices temporarily to help consumers, and say there…
Thirty years ago today on Earth Day, I stopped doing drugs and alcohol and returned to Planet Earth. For anyone having addiction problems, you can do it too. One day at a time. When I tell people how much I…
Hint: Crashing federal and state systems is not the fault of modern COBOL, which is quite robust and runs lots of mission-critical systems just fine. The real problem is for decades management didn’t want to spend money on training or…