Recommendations and Arty Stuff January 2023
Netflix: The Pale Blue Eye—nice period piece with a marvelous actor portraying Edgar Allen Poe Kaleidoscope—Hype was more than what...
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Jan 15, 20234 min read
Asteroids......and Covid XBB
https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-vaccines-fueling-new-covid-variants-xbb-northeast-antibodies-mutation-strain-immune-imprinting-116724836...
Jan 15, 20238 min read
A Medical Coming of Age
A recent family practice journal article tested me on the phenomena of testicular torsion (a painful condition of mostly growing boys and...
Dec 22, 20225 min read
WHY WE WILL SOON MISS THE COLD WAR, FROM AUGUST 1990
August 1990 Atlantic article by John Mearsheimer. “Why we Will Soon Miss the Cold War” Cleaning my closet, I found an old Atlantic...
Dec 22, 20227 min read
Seatmates
Andy Rooney I am not; but this is close. With time, I have developed preferences when doing specific things: I like silent masseuses for...
Dec 22, 20221 min read
Recommendations 12/22
Streaming Netflix: Kominski Method. This is an old series but beautifully acted and the short segments transmit beautifully many of the...
Nov 8, 20227 min read
Lingerie Store
At age 70, an important principle to adhere to is this: Don’t let things get boring. Don’t live in a rut. This is Kernie’s story. Kernie...
Nov 8, 202212 min read
The Border by Erika Fatland
Russia is so much in the news and is such a complicated country, I thought this book would be an interesting read: a Norwegian writer...
Nov 8, 20222 min read
Recommendations November 2022
This links to a book review that is timely and links to an article in last month's Atlantic which suggested boys and girls develop...
Oct 21, 20221 min read
Recommendations October 2022
Podcasts by Richard V Reeves: Why are men failing school work and life? Also, in October ATLANTIC by the same author: Redshirt the...
Oct 21, 20226 min read
MEDICAL PEARLS
POLIO VACCINATIONS—I once reviewed a book called The Cutter Incident. It lays out the history of the development of polio vaccines. There...
Oct 21, 20227 min read
THE NEOCONSERVATIVE THREAT TO WORLD ORDER Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts was a supply side economist supporting the Reagan Administration. Mr. Roberts associates with Americans who have...
Sep 16, 20221 min read
Photos United Kingdom
Firth of Forth; the two modern bridges One of the prettier distilleries The 19th century bridge--over designed and still going My fave...
Sep 16, 202223 min read
Randy and Kernie go to Scotland
Kernie and I planned a trip to Scotland a little less than a year ago; we contracted with a company we had used on a previous trip,...
Sep 16, 20221 min read
Recommendations September 2022
YOUTUBE: Davide Starey is a gruff philosophical guy who makes a serious point with a dry humor. This is a short worthwhile couple of...
Aug 17, 20228 min read
UNCERTAIN GROUND BY PHIL KAY. Citizenship in an age of endless invisible war
I went to college at UC Santa Cruz. The overwhelming majority of students I met there had no connection to military life. There were...
Aug 17, 20221 min read
Recommendations August 2022
Book: See Poverty....Make a Difference Donna Beegle---this is written by a motivational speaker whom I heard at a local fundraiser for...
Aug 17, 20226 min read
Tres and the Alamo
Preface: Tres, my grandson, expressed an interest in the Alamo before he was very old. Kernie found an Alamo fort with soldiers to match...
Jul 16, 20220 min read
Jul 16, 202213 min read
The John Birch Society and Robert Welch
“If Bill Clinton wins, we will have abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against...
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