Examining “Shrinkflation”
Are you as inattentive when shopping as certain manufacturers think you are? Or have you noticed that many grocery items are appearing in smaller packages these days? It’s a neat trick, this…
Wuhan Waltz #3
As I indicated in my earlier posts on the Wuhan Institute of Virology ( A and B), I believe evidence suggests that this laboratory was the origin of Covid-19. A recent article…
Rounding up Reindeer
Although I’ve inhaled the pure air of Finland for no more than a few months, I’ve had an array of happy adventures while there. If you’ve read other posts in this blog,…
Ranking Russian Novelists
I was an undergraduate when I read The Brothers Karamazov, my first Russian novel. I powered through that mighty book in one intense weekend, shielded from interruptions by the closed door of…
Group Think
I apologize for the lack of activity here for two long weeks. I’m working on other projects and haven’t taken time to post anything fresh here. Yesterday, Independence Day, I heard someone…
John D. MacDonald
Do you know of John D. MacDonald? He was a highly prolific 20th Century writer with amazing talents. He usually is classified as a mystery writer, or a writer of crime and…
Wuhan Waltz Addendum
This evening, while flipping through television stations, I watched a segment reporting that Vanity Fair recently published an extensive article on the origin of the Covid-19. I easily located that article online…
The Wuhan Waltz
I have never understood why certain groups of scientists boisterously denounce the possibility that Covid-19 might have been genetically engineered by the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Are they blind? After all, that…
My Precise Internal Clock
I describe my incredible internal clock in my memoir, but the story is of good length for a blog, so I’ll retell it here. First a bit of necessary background. My mother…
Iberian Travels, Part 4
Pedro, Bruce, Ken, and Alvaro – Four lambs about to be clipped As I mentioned at the end of my last post, pleasure was blooming in our cabaret. Pedro, Bruce, Alvaro, and…
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