It is important to recognize that no employee ever gets fired because of financial reasons. Management will pretend that the reason for termination is costs, but this is never the case. If costs are truly an issue, a whole division or multiple …

(The foul-mouthed, softball-playing, draft-dodging eighth graders from St. Priscilla’s are at it again.)

A sixth grade patrol boy wearing the orange belt of authority appeared at the door of the classroom accompanied by two men in black suits. Joe …

Do you remember my scheme for spending my retirement in a college town? Many of you thought that I was joking. Some, however, got the message.

There is outrage when XY chromosomed-individuals join the women’s team because they now identify as women. …

How will we know the pandemic is over? Just as there was no formal announcement of the pandemic’s start, it is unlikely that there will be an announcement of the pandemic’s end.

At first, the Sickness was completely local: trouble in far-off China …

Test after crash.

It’s interesting (at least to me) how different systems or professions address the issue of truth. How do we know if an assertion is true?

• Anecdotal: True if there’s some comment about it somewhere
• Arabic: If no one saw it, it didn’t happen …

In a very real sense, I grew up with Vietnam. The war the Vietnamese call the “American War” was on television every night. The movie The Green Berets instilled us with the righteousness of the American cause. It was America’s duty to fight godless …

John Delorean

I feel for those whose surnames include a ‘de, di, la’, an ‘al-’, ‘el’, ‘ben’ or ‘ibn.’ Or ‘von’. And of course, anyone who has the misfortune to have an apostrophe in their …

“Is Ivermectin safe?

When used for the current indications, at the currently approved doses, Ivermectin is a very safe drug. To date, more than three billion treatments have been distributed in the context of the Mectizan Donation Program alone with …

As it turns out, university tuition is tax-deductible for seniors who return to school to obtain additional credentials which will make them more marketable despite their advanced age. Let’s not kid ourselves: there’s no way you are going to find a …

The US Department of Transportation has extended the federal mask mandate to January, 2022, requiring passengers to wear masks aboard civilian aircraft and so insuring that American bad behavior will be on display for all throughout the holiday …

The trial of R. Kelly on federal racketeering charges is being held on a semi-virtual basis: the jurors are not in the courtroom. Supposedly this is for health reasons; but if everyone else is in the courtroom safely, what is the justification for …

I’ll go out on a limb and say that much of the civil strife in the United States is between Republicans and those who do not identify themselves as such. Since all you can really do is moan and complain about those who do not agree with you, the …

There really was a Pierre Menard.

But he did not write the Quijote, contrary to Mr. Borges' assertions.

Menard was the first lieutenant governor of Illinois.

Selling your Condo?

Selling a condo isn’t easy these days. Real estate agents have to do due diligence on condo board finances and do not have the necessary skills to read and analyze financial statements.

If depicted accurately in the documentary Murder in West Cork, the evidence:

• changed stories
• witness identification
• multiple “confessions” to friends (not even hearsay because a declaration against penal interest)

is enough to convict …

While often a matter of juvenile humor, it has become increasingly obvious to the peer-reviewed scientific community that explosive flatulency (commonly known as “power farting”) is a serious, substantial vector of Covid-19. At first, it was thought …

Gloria Escalante, a condo board member unit owner in the collapsed Champlain Towers South building, urged unit owners in 2019 to approve the hiring of Frank Morabito, the structural engineer who examined the building in 2018 and so could “hit the …

Potential buyers (erroneously referred to by real estate agents as “clients”¹) are now asking for deep discounts and information about the building’s 40-year recertification process, leading one agent to complain that “no one asked about this …

A Bolivian admiral was arrested for his role in the military coup that overthrew Evo Morales.

Bolivia is landlocked. Bolivia lost its outlet to the sea in the 19th century War of the Pacific to Chile and since then has been trying to recover access …

“In a small moment of hope, a cat was seen wandering a lower floor of the remaining flank of the 12-story condominium complex. Crews hoped to place a trap on the balcony so the cat could be rescued. It could not be immediately determined whether the …

The number of cases in Bahrain during the last month has dropped from a high of 28,798 active cases to a low of 2882 on the last day of the lockdown, July 2. The lockdown is only suspended; if the number of cases starts to rise again, it will be …

• Storming of the US Capitol
• Trump Impeachment
• B737 Crash in Indonesia
• Outbreak of UK, So.African and Brazilian Virus Variants
• Myanmar Coup
• Texas Freeze (“Cancun Cruz”)
• Suez Canal grounding
• Murder Hornets Return
• US, Canada, Siberia Heatwave
• Champlain …

I was sitting around with my roommates a few years ago and the subject of retirement came up, as did the subject of finding low rent accommodation. I recounted an experience I had trying to find low-cost housing in Los Angeles in the summer. College …