Gains & Losses

Yay! The garbage has been picked up.

Australian surfer, photo from the guardian.com:

Headline from nypost.com: “US Postal Service reports $6.5 billion net loss as first class mail falls to lowest since 1968.” I haven’t been to the post office in three or so years. Our local venue had a fire, has not reopened, and now word is it is moving several miles away.

Sometimes I sense there’s something inside humans that leads them into population control, hence the violence that plagues us. “Activists” are guilty of this. Here’s an example from a NYP editorial, edited by yours truly: Malaria infects millions and kills by the hundreds of thousands each year… a team of biotechnologists has managed to genetically engineer mosquitoes to be immune to the malaria parasite, thus protecting people from the disease… releasing the bioengineered mosquitoes to interbreed with wild ones would reduce the incidence of infections more than 90 percent within three months. But activist groups seeking a global moratorium on gene drives have managed to tie up research and deployment, with a key report on the tech not due ’til 2026, even as hundreds of millions already know the real and present risks of life without it.” Recall that DDT, the most effective means to deal with the problem, was banned, leading to the death of millions and the physical handicap of millions more. Activists have killed as many people as history’s worse tyrants.

Headline from newsmax.com: “AI Predicts Heart Attack 10 Years Before It Happens.” Again, I have no idea whether AI is a threat to mankind, but the medical advances continue to be stunning.

Headline from outkick.com: “WOKE MISS UNIVERSE GOES BROKE, DECLARES BANKRUPTCY.” The pageant, that is.

Headline from foxnews.com: “Ted Cruz goes off on Harvard, elite colleges: ‘The Wuhan lab of the woke virus’.” Kudos. He’s a Harvard grad himself.

From FN out of Anchorage: “Alaska’s largest city nearing all-time snowiest November after last week’s ‘snow emergency’.” This is why global warming has been changed to climate change.

Among the many things celebrated on 11/15 is I Love to Write Day.

Another beautiful day to do business curbside. When local Super Roberto asked if I wanted books, I should have said no, but my curiosity got the best of me. Of the 30 or so, all are non-fiction, many political. My thanks, and to Dina, who donated two in Russian; and to the teenager who bought two hardcovers in that language; and to the middle aged woman who purchased The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and two issues of Consumer Reports Best of Health; and to the elderly woman who selected More Household Magic; and to Wolf, who took home A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) on DVD and CDs by Sinatra, Rod Stewart, Beethoven and a various artists standards collection, and a novel in Russian. I am blessed but bushed.

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