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Originally November 2016 Revised August 2021 Well, it is now August 2021 and Trump is gone from the white house. Wondering how I did with my predictions. I will put the current comments in italics. Well now we have it. A number of possibilities arise and this is only the first attempt to put them … Continue reading Predictions for a Trump Presidency—Revisited

26 June 2021 Review: Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven. Mark Twain 1907 I read a collection of short stories recently by Mark Twain. This included, among others, The Celebrated Jumping Frog, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven. My comments here are about Captain Stormfield’s adventure. The … Continue reading Review: Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven

22 March 2020 I showed the first symptoms of Covid-19, a headache, on Wednesday 11 March. Below is an overview. I hope this may help people understand beyond the news what this is like. Remember, it is a progression of symptoms in my experience. We tend to hear “the symptoms” on the news and think … Continue reading My Covid-19 Experience

22 February 2020 There have been two substitutions. One is democracy with capitalism and the other is the United States of America with Christianity. The former has been made by almost everyone without notice or recognition of the consequences; the latter has been made on the right of the political spectrum and is a “be … Continue reading Substitutions

2 December 2019 My first car was a Ford Pinto—you know, the kind that blew up if rear ended—and I got ripped off buying it from a friend whose dad was a used car salesman--Classic. But it was my first car and I had it for six or so years. It had some funny features … Continue reading Technology and Thought