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…
In Running Against The Devil, Rick Wilson details how Democrats can (and must) win the presidency in November. Wilson created pit bull attack ads for Republican candidates for years, is a conservative, original Never Trumper, and author of best selling…
Being religious won’t keep coronavirus away. Jesus has more important things to do than protect wilfully ignorant knuckleheads from themselves. Really, he does. Also, being a wealthy liberal shopping at the Brentwood farmers market thinking only The Poors get coronavirus,…
Coronavirus is a black swan event, unpredictable and unforeseen with extremely bad, consequences. Oh, some might have thought it could happen, but they were mostly ignored. And the black swan absolutely upsets everything, derailing our normal day-to-day existence. Most of…
Sue and I attend a statewide conference twice a year in Tonopah NV, a town of 3,000 halfway between Reno and Las Vegas. It was scheduled for the end of this month and just got cancelled because of coronavirus. I…
Yes, capitalism has huge structural problems. Way too many people are getting mangled by it. However, the standard radical response is some type of socialism, generally saying “we must organize the people now” for something nebulous we hope happens decades…