Hong Kong is battling an outbreak of Candida Auris, a drug-resistant fungus that builds up in the oral cavity, digestive tract, skin, or vagina. It has a 30-60% mortality rate. It is believed that the outbreak is due to measures for battling the sniffles coronavirus.
So mask...
According to the Aspen Institute 30-40 million people face eviction this fall and winter. (This is old news, having been reported in August, but I'm a bit behind on my blogging and wanted to address this.)
Why is the media generating fear with this overblown virus when a very...
(NOTE: rude language to follow, and please note that I am non-violent and would never really punch a maskie in the mouth but am frustrated enough to feel like doing that at times.)
A warm, moist environment, practically built to facilitate the g...
I just conducted a scientific study of how dumb (or at least mathematically illiterate) people are, on average.
Methodology: Walk around and ask people, "What is 17x4?" If they answer correctly within 3 seconds, 5 points. If they answer correctly within 5 seconds, 3 points. ...
Listen to this doctor who, unlike Dr. Fauci, has treated hundreds of COVID-1984 patients and saved 100 percent of their lives recently while you read what I wrote below.
What if the c...
This whole Coronavirus... oh, wait, sorry, this just in... Novel Coronavirus (so don't even bother looking in the non-fiction section, Citizen!)... sorry, not scary enough, ok, how about (clears throat in authoritative way, takes sip of water...) COVID-19! That scare the pan...
“Man was made for joy and woe
Then when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Joy and woe are woven fine
A clothing for the soul to bind.”
― William Blake
I had this whole thing written out about all the horrible things t...
It may be considered odd in this day and age, but I still like to read from paper. Books and magazines don't mesmerize the brain, and I feel like I get more cognitive bang for my buck when reading from them. Even if our screens aren't hypnotizing us, reading from paper reduc...
Stock markets have had a couple of very bad days to start Q3. That's not a big deal in itself. In fact, it would be healthy for stocks to correct by 20 percent or more after an 11-year bull run.
That will not be allowed to happen.
Wait a minute, Chuck, didn't you just sa...
(Clever title, right?)
"Love" and "Nature" are both widely used words and, as such, betray the inadequacy of words. We use these words all the time. We see them in the media, in advertising. It seems to me that most of us don't even know what they mean, really.
I'll just st...