The Guardian has a thought-provoking article about the race to develop a replacement for Viagra. [guard]
The Guardian has a thought-provoking article about the race to develop a replacement for Viagra. [guard]
Do you keep track (loosely) of nuclear proliferation? I feel sometimes that there’s something odd about me, the way I am constantly keeping my ear to the ground about the various governments that are building these horrible monstrous things designed to destroy us all in a bath of light and fire.
At Frankfurt Airport:
Donald Trump’s tax returns will mean nothing and will change nothing. My prediction is that the democrats would be better off not going after them, and just painting a big picture of what a gigantic cheater Trump must be – keep it vague and unspecific.
Congestion pricing seems like a good idea, doesn’t it?
My telephones (cell and land line) have become effectively useless, thanks to the ridiculous number of robo-calls that I get.
PG&E’s lawyers are considering taking the $71 billion company into bankruptcy as a way of avoiding any successful legal claims for damages people may have suffered during the recent wildfires. [stderr]
Last week, I used a tow strap (I keep it in my truck bag in the back of my truck) and my big Chevy Tahoe to pull a UPS truck out of a ditch. You know, the standard UPS package car – big, brown, GMC service chassis with a Grumman aluminum body with dual rear wheels. I know GMC makes 4×4 drive-trains for those things; they’re not that much more expensive, either. I would sort of expect that each UPS motor-pool would have a couple 4×4 and the rest rigged for highway driving.
One of the assets of a company is its endowment or its retirement fund. In principle, it’s money that has been set aside for employees’ pensions when they retire.
It’s fascinating to see the different ways that the “trade truce” is being reported. It also scares me because it illustrates how unquestioningly the press reports from government-issued press releases.