Mexican presidents are allowed one six-year term, and may not run again.

An old medical aphorism is that the dose makes the poison. Yes Botox is botulism toxin, but at absolutely microscopic amounts.

So, have any of those Nestlè boycotts hurt the company?

So, it was : Comey’s investigation/ Julian Assange / The Russians/ Alex Jones/the BernieBros/ Jill Stein/the KKK/ the ghost of Brietbart/ and now Anthony Weiner’s perversions that cost Hillary the election. Did I get everybody?

So, did the young woman actually contact him first? How seductive was the politician to get her to disrobe? Nothing excuses his actions, but there seems to be more to the story.

There are many classes of performers even within one field. Charlotte Church and Andrea Boccelli have incredible voices, but neither underwent the rigorous years of training in voice, acting and language called for in classic opera. So they ended up as popular performers of opera-like music, instead of ending up at…

According to summer box office figures, the public is already boycotting Hollywood pictures, all without Women in Media.

Will Scientology utterly collapse? Religious bodies seldom disappear completely. However, their influence has taken a gigantic hit. Remini’s show got an Emmy this week, and appears on a major network. Nobody is afraid of them anymore. In the other hand they have lots of money and unlike mainstream churches it’s almost…

Solaris is an incredible novel, but both the old Soviet version and the More recent George Clooney edition are somewhat stupefying. This may end up like Dune, where visionary directors will continue to remake it until they get it right.

Your turn to host family Thanksgiving, right?

Has Grand Inquisitor Mueller issued a subpoena for her yet?

A very troubling story which calls for some more reporting. What is going wrong at Clear View, the Texas based private equity group that bought Ebony and Jet recently? Did these kind of problems crop up when the founding Johnson family were running things? Is Ebony suffering from the same economic malaise afflicting…

Shingles vaccine, if you had chicken pox as a kid.

I had an in law who bought a diesel Mercedes in the early 70s, when such engines were very rare in US sedans. He had a bunch of booklets issued by the big oil companies (Mobil, Shell, Standard) listing all their affiliate stations that sold diesel fuel, updated every few months. Now that it is much easier to find…

It took us a century to develop the habits and technologies of our current gas based vehicles. How long did it take to plant enough gas stations to sufficiently cover this huge country? Even Elon Musk can’t reproduce it overnight.

Or unplugs your car to plug in theirs!

Looking at charger locations in my densely populated area of Chicago (Rogers Park/Edgewater) there are about 10 within 2 miles. A couple are at gas stations, others at Walgreens drug stores or a supermarket.

How many square meters of solar cells would it take to operate a busy charger site?

The military is active in preparing for relief operations. The story below mentions National Guard call ups as well as regular troops like Marines. Several naval vessels including the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln are being dispatched to move in behind the storm and provide aid.

Wouldn’t the prison be the sturdiest building in town?