Colby Chandler, Kodak’s former CEO from 1983-1990 was proud of his cost cutting. He once took a machete to a wood pallet to make the point to his managers. Instead of pouring money into R & D, his cuts created the shareholder value which …

Here’s a caveat to a recent US ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) assessment:

“Judgements are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact.”

In other words, “our conclusions are not based on facts.” …

My account was suspended by Twitter for suggesting that, in view of the evidence of the Astra Zeneca vaccine causing blood clots, taking that vaccine did not seem to be an effective way of committing suicide.

Twitter views this as “encouraging …

A young woman takes over her father’s drug business.

By the time she points a gun at you, it’s too late.

Everyone betrays everyone else.

Loyalty is a lie.

Honor is a delusion.

Trust is for sale.

Hunter Biden is guaranteed to provide political comic relief for the next four years. Hunter persuaded a young woman from Arkansas who was working at a gentleman’s club in Washington D.C. to have a fling. The baby’s grandfather now lives at the …

There are now three (four?) recognized dangerous Covid-19 variants:

• B.1.1.7 (United Kingdom)
• P1 Brazil
• B.1.351 (South Africa)
• 501.v.2 (South Africa)

It is not clear whether the reports about the new, 30% more contagious South Africa refers to …

2021 Scorecard:

• Storming of the US Capitol
• Trump Impeachment
• B737 Crash in Indonesia
• Outbreak of UK, So.African and Brazilian Virus Variants
• Myanmar Coup

No locusts yet. The Lord of the East Wind Demons must be sleeping.

Imagine if the generals of the Tatmadaw were advising Trump. After arresting Myanmar legislators and closing the parliament, they stated that their reason for invoking the emergency provisions of the Myanmar constitution as justification for the …

No More Conspiracy Theories

I’m sick and tired of QAnon, Pizzagate and other conspiracy theories. When can we get back to hard news?

Government Depository Libraries

Every major university’s library, public and private, is a government depository library. This means they have to give you access if you say you’re going to consult the government collection. Usually I just ask what …

A vaccine is an immune system booster. It is not a cure or a treatment for disease.

You have to have an immune system to start out with.

My question is, in the case of centenarians, how much of their immune system is left?

I wrote this four years ago, pointing out that the Swartz prosecution was political in nature. MIT and the US Attorney’s Office in Boston are responsible for his death. After his suicide, the Boston USAO lied, claiming that they had offered him …

An adjutorious arbitration; an archaic word but then again, in the law nothing is archaic. There has to be a good deal of good will and cooperation where the parties fail to provide for an arbitration clause, a dispute arises and they nevertheless …

You cannot applaud the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Iran while condemning the assassination of Khashoggi in Istanbul.

(And if it’s OK for Israel, it’s OK for Saudi Arabia)

A new law of war is needed: …

Ronald Reagan left the White House when he was 77 years old after serving two terms.

Joe Biden today is one year older than Reagan was at the end of his term and getting ready to begin his.

Biden will be 82 at the end of his term.

“There’s no freedom of religion unless you are free to worship Sumerian wind demons”

Francis Scott Key, the author of the Star Spangled Banner, was an attorney in Maryland.

And a slaveowner.

John Marshall, the 13th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was a slaveowner too. He owned 150 slaves. He is the intellectual …

It looks like Biden is the victor, assuming no court intervention. Whatever happens between now and January 20th, the Press will focus on Trump. They will not admit it, but they will miss him greatly. Unless he runs into Alberto Fujimori on the golf …

In describing an incident where feces were found in the marital bed that Amber Heard shared with Johnny Depp, Judge Andrew Nicol found that it is likely the feces were not human given that Heard’s dog “had an incomplete mastery of her bowels after …

We won’t know on election night and there’s the rub. The courts may give the election to Trump, as they did to Bush in 2000. Things may get violent. Trump will not go quietly. I think there will be several razor-thin elections in …

Whose Fault?

When I woke up one morning in June, there was a message from Twitter on my phone, telling me that there was suspicious activity on my account and that they would send an SMS code which I should then enter on the screen to be provided. I …

Evidence of good character is relevant in many types of legal proceedings.

How long before the number of Facebook “likes” a person has received can be admitted in evidence as proof of good reputation in a community?

Conversely, how long …

How long before an obituary records the number of Facebook “likes” a person received during their lifetime?

When you’re down on your luck

And you ain’t got a buck

In London, you’re a goner

They say you remain faithful to the music that was popular when you were in middle school for the rest of your life. When I was in middle school, popular music was …