by Bob | May 8, 2020 | 2020 Pandemic
It was a good day, even while many, including my father, were still fighting in the Pacific Theater. Many historians have traced the origins of World War II. Most point to the awful peace treaty after the end of the First World War, which was the Great War, until...
by Bob | May 7, 2020 | 2020 Virus
When I watched Contagion years ago, I thought it was reasonably well done but really underestimated the degree of societal breakdown that such a pandemic would cause. COVID-19 isn’t at that level. Yet. I doubt it will, but from the beginning I’ve been talking about...
by Bob | May 4, 2020 | 2020 Pandemic
I was checking my accounts and it seems somewhere in early March my Medium account switched from being linked to my Twitter account to my Google account, and thus I ended up with two accounts. Bummer. So I’m re-posting all the ones from Google over here to my Twitter...
by Bob | May 3, 2020 | 2020 Pandemic
There is a term in economics called sunk cost. It means expenses in a business which are made and cannot be recovered, no matter what future decisions are made. There is a large segment of the United States that has sunk cost in terms of the current administration,...
by Bob | May 2, 2020 | 2020 Pandemic
I studied World War I at West Point. We all know about the Great Depression that began in 1929. But the 1920s? All I know really is they were called the “Roaring Twenties”. I always assumed that after the horror of World War I (truly, truly horrible beyond...
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