Friday, December 4, 2020

Walter Williams

Gifted economist Walter Williams died December 2.  Williams was known for his conservative and libertarian views. In his columns Williams railed against liberal economics, gun control, Marxism, teachers unions, race hustlers, and any other threats to human liberty he saw in the world. More about his life here by Thomas Sowell. Read his last column on the tragedy of black education

Turns out there is more to those little glass vials (that you see on TV every day) being filled with vaccine. It also turns out that there aren't enough vials to inoculate everybody.

Hewlett Packard is the grandfather of Silicon Valley. Built by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, it set the standard for a quality enterprise and great place to work, and became the anchor for the tech revolution. When I was a young engineer, I really wanted to work there. Of course the original HP is gone now, sold off by Carly Fiorina, HP has become a paper and ink company. HP is moving to Texas, just one more company fed up with California.

Video of the testimony by Dr. Linda Lee Tarver "What is Really Happening in Michigan" on election fraud.

As you must know by now, Facebook went to extraordinary lengths to keep negative publicity about Joe Biden out of the public eye. It turns out that Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg gave $350 million to organizations who focused on getting out the vote from minorities.

The Arecibo Telescope collapsed on December 1. This was a 1000-ft wide dish located in Puerto Rico. Once the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, the Arecibo facility has been the site of many key astronomical discoveries over the years, including observations of the spinning stars known as pulsars that led to the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics. Before its collapse, astronomers were using the telescope for a number of scientific studies, including radar assessments of near-Earth asteroids, to measure their threat to the planet. Watch the video of the collapse on Nature.

To the delight of its fans, the McRib is back. This columnist wrote about the famous sandwich and wasn't quite as impressed as its fans.

If you are a reader of this blog, it is unlikely that you watch CNN. If you did, you would not have learned anything about Hunter Biden's laptop because the head of the news network instructed reporters not to cover it.

For a film made out of a bestselling book by a well-known liberal filmmaker (Ron Howard) and featuring Glenn Close, Amy Adams and Gabriel Besso, the movie seems surprisingly controversial. Because it’s devastating for the left’s political narrative. You can watch "hillbilly Elegy" on Netflix. Ron Howard took exception to the critics comments.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is a self-declared democratic socialist who has been a vocal critic of capitalism. You might say that the prices she charges for goods in her on-line shop are capatalistic. $58 for a "Tax the Rich" shirt?

Stanford OB-GYN prof claims late-term and post-birth abortions are ‘not real.' Pro-life groups beg to differ.

Cleaning my office, this old cartoon emerged, appropriate for the coming tax season.



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