Freedom is the NSAID of the people!

At my grocery store, I continued to rent movies until just a few years ago. I finally, stopped, not because they wouldn’t rent, but because customers could not understand late fees and became angry. They could not understand the process, which happened on a DOS, vintage AT computer. My employees mostly could not…

There is a hypocritical, fake aspect to American recycling, that we want to sort plastic and pretend that is recycling, but few cities want the dirty, smelly business of actually remanufacturing plastics into feedstocks for manufacturing new products. And of course most plastic manufacturing plants in the U.S. went…

A massive overhaul of food safety regulations and inspection procedures has been largely implemented and that, not automation is responsible for the problem.  Faster lines certainly exist, but are probably a tiny percentage of the industry.  Part of what is happening is that manufacturers are being more cautious,…

Not only will the law be flagrantly violated in rural Washington State, but gun owners will be defiantly challenging anyone who would try to enforce it. I mean, if our Governor, who is going to be largely out of state, wants to enforce it, he might end up with quite a number of armed standoffs. It might be hard to…

The fundamental reason why cheaper groceries must be sold in a brick and mortar Supermarket type, store is that the delivery cost makes lower margin, lower priced grocery items too expensive on average to be a particularly good value. Almost any brick & mortar supermarket can usually match Amazon when you take…

It might pay to listen to Hillary, because she and the Clinton machine are going to back a candidate. Hillary and Bill might have more to say about who can be the nominee than even the candidate they choose. It will be interesting to see whether Bloomberg backs someone other than himself and the Clintons will back the…

Ben Could run against Trump in 2020 or it may be that he wants to have a shot at a Cabinet post or VP even if Trump does not prevail in the Primary.  Trump will not be unopposed.

The QAnon guy at my place of business is the same guy who searches for Bigfoot in the woods.

Those who suffer from Mayo-pathy shouldn’t expect much empathy from radical Mayo-ists who will re-educate the palates of all who fail to conform.

God knows how many Union members lied about something on their job applications. Perhaps the Union is hoping to avoid a review and suspension or firing of a number of officers.

I liked “Ready Player One.” Also, back in the day, they used to give cable companies special, early opportunities to put films on the small screen in neighborhoods that had many Academy voters. Can you imagine cable TV that actually showed many recent films? Big producers did more or less what Netflix does, decades…

They have taken a step down the road away from the gospel that people have a right to play, because of natural gifts. Natural gifts have been a crapshoot all along, and now the doctrine is a fraud for all the world to see. Most Olympic athletes have some genetic or physical advantage beyond strictly average, usually…

Sounds like sloppy waters ahead for those voters who consider themselves “C” men. Maybe a distinctive hat or red condom, could save the campaign.

If the child’s Mom can wear earplugs to avoid listening to her child, then it is O.K. for all the passengers to do so as well.

Basically, the elixir is a preservative. We can conclude that at some time in the history of this culture, the concept of immortality and preserving food, giving it more shelf life, became conflated.

Republicans tend to be more about criminal justice as punishment with rehabilitation as a secondary concern. Politically, there is a tendency for sentencing and statutes to gradually become more draconian and less fair or more unfair, because Republicans and Democrats as well, often like to campaign on crimes of the…

I focused in on graduation disparity on race with which Denver does a good job relative to most cities. But, that single issue was not intended to be a claim that Denver is less racist than other cities, except Colorado Springs which is practically a tourist destination for racists. Is it unfair to compare between…

Well, of course the U.S. engages in similar espionage, but everyone mistrusts their own country less than the other fellow’s country. This is not necessarily to win the case and be able to distribute Huawei gear everywhere without restriction, but maybe more to gather intelligence of what American security apparatus…

A couple of my employees had a cold and then got bronchitis and needed antibiotics here in Washington, this Winter. I had no idea it was all because of a garbage fire in Arkansas.