Monthly Archives: February 2021

The heading, or course, is a paraphrase of the title of Jared Diamond’s book, Guns, Germs and Steel, although this post isn’t about the book (which I read) or its hypotheses. I was just struck by the commonalities in the … Continue reading →

Did you ever have a movie that you saw once, but never quite forgot but could never find it again? Maybe you forgot the title, and maybe also the actors and date of release, but could never turn up any … Continue reading →

President Biden has been in office for a month now. Back in the old days, you were supposed to give presidents a hundred days in office before you began analyzing them, but these are not normal times. Biden’s only real … Continue reading →

I don’t have either one, have had my flus hot and my first Covid shot. So they have those things in common. They have differences as well. Covid is more likely to kill you if you get it. It appears … Continue reading →

Remarks from two of my children on their life in Indiana during their school years – both fled the state as soon as they could get away, followed closely by their young sibling- make it sound like like the state … Continue reading →

Urging, or even professing a desire, to see a public figure dead, will get you banned from social media, or at least threatened with a suspension (except when you’re a Trump fan threatening to actually kill a “leftist” or encouraging … Continue reading →

Snow shoveling is a way to honor the Goddess of Winter, Skadi; also a key skill for the person with suburb smarts (which I’ve developed over the years in addition to my street smarts from my childhood in da region). … Continue reading →

Temperature: 17/10F; Humidity 71%; Dewpoint 9; Barometer 30.28Snowfall so far: About 3 inches I’ve got my driveway shoveled as we face another 4-6 inches of snow later today and tonight. Snow is supposed to be done tomorrow morning, and we … Continue reading →

And they will reap the whirlwind, which will probably wreak havoc on the entire United States, rather than more appropriately laying waste to the Republican elected officials who have spent 4 years, going on eight, in thrall to the Trump … Continue reading →

I ranted a bit about an excerpt from the book by Annalee Newitz due to what I saw as an unrealistic approach to the level of certainty archaeologists could reach from preliterate data, but the subject and writing was enough … Continue reading →